Brian Schipper, senior vice president of human resources, identifies five focus areas where Cisco is fostering a corporate culture that engages and empowers employees to work for positive change.
Brian Schipper: Empowering Our Employees for Positive Change
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Engaged, talented, and motivated people are critical to our success. Cisco believes in inspiring employees to feel that their work is more than just a job. This begins with communicating our long-term strategy and aligning employees with our vision to change the way people work, live, play, and learn.
To sustain our competitive advantage, we are building a global culture and organizational capability, based on collaboration. Cisco collaborative technologies are transforming the way employees work and communicate across business functions.
We employed more than 70,700 people at the end of FY10. Over 17,000 are based at our headquarters in San Jose, California, and the rest work in over 420 locations in 93 countries. Employees come from diverse backgrounds and bring with them a rich variety of skills and experiences encompassing engineering, sales, and business support. We support their safety, health, and wellbeing, and provide programs to help them balance work and personal commitments.
Our commitment to collaboration underpins our approach in five key areas:
- Working Together: Embedding a collaborative working culture
- A Safe and Healthy Environment: Ensuring our people's safety, and promoting their physical and mental wellbeing
- An Open and Diverse Culture: Engaging our employees and promoting diversity and inclusion
- Employee Opportunities: Realizing the potential of our employees through development and training opportunities
- Rewarding Our People: Rewarding employees through competitive, performance-based compensation and benefits
- A record 85 percent of employees completed the annual Pulse employee survey, up 5 percentage points from FY09
- Talent Connection and CareerPath initiatives were piloted to facilitate career development opportunities for Cisco employees
- 70 percent of employees using the Global Ergonomics Program reported an increase in comfort levels
