Hybrid Work in the New Atlanta Office

I’ve lived in Atlanta correct most of my life but over the course of my Cisco profession, all 20 years of it, I’ve labored remotely from house in a monetary companies trade position overlaying a broad geography. Cisco all the time had an Atlanta workplace, a number of actually, and whereas Atlanta’s site visitors is infamous it had nothing (okay… nearly nothing) to do with persevering with fortunately as a distant worker.

With the world quickly transferring to a hybrid work atmosphere over the previous couple of years, an increasing number of individuals are having fun with the pliability of this new work fashion. As buildings reopen, that’s partially why workers aren’t flocking to them. Regardless of employers encouraging workers to come back again to the workplace, many professionals aren’t in a rush to come back again to the very same buildings they left three years in the past.

In accordance KPMG’s 2022 U.S. Banking CEO outlook printed in October, CEOs envision the working atmosphere for conventional workplace jobs within the subsequent three years to be 69% totally in-office with one other 24% hybrid. That’s 93% of workers stepping foot within the workplace on a weekly foundation.

The workplace must be a magnet not a mandate
– Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO

True to our CEO’s phrases, we’re updating key Cisco places the world over to be precisely that. And I’m fortunate as Atlanta is one among our first places to get a significant improve to a Cisco Expertise Heart (CXCs). As a local Atlantan, I’m not solely proud to see Cisco represented within the coronary heart of Atlanta but additionally in shut proximity of my alma mater Georgia Tech and the numerous high-quality surrounding universities. Our new workplace is designed for at this time’s hybrid workforce, creating not solely a magnet for present workers like me, but additionally a showcase that can appeal to new expertise to Cisco.

Cisco’s presence amongst midtown Atlanta’s know-how neighborhood is much more inspiring from my perspective as the worldwide lead for monetary companies. Many individuals may be stunned to know that, for many years, town has been a number one hub for monetary companies and applied sciences. By some estimates greater than two-thirds of monetary transactions the world over go by Atlanta. In actual fact, Georgia-based corporations course of over 188 billion transactions per 12 months, which is over $2 trillion. It has earned the nickname “transaction alley.”

Georgia is house to a whole bunch of corporations, many positioned within the better Atlanta space, concerned in funds and monetary know-how. Within the funds trade six of the ten U.S. cost processors are headquartered in Georgia and there are 42,000 funds workers positioned right here. As we speak the highest 50 Georgia-based FinTechs generate greater than $72 billion. It’s not shocking subsequently to listen to different nicknames for Atlanta, like “FinTech Capital of the World.”

As you may see Atlanta and Georgia are vital to the monetary companies trade. When our new workplace opens to exterior guests in April 2023, I look ahead to spending time there every week, assembly and collaborating in-person with new and previous colleagues and interesting with monetary companies shoppers to debate and reveal how reimagined places of work can grow to be a magnet for workers.

The aforementioned KPMG examine is telling on this regard for the banking trade. The return to in-office is sort of double the common in banking versus different white-collar industries. We’ve heard from Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and David Solomon of Goldman Sachs about their want for workers to be within the workplace. Different monetary establishments are comparable – like USAA who not too long ago knowledgeable workers residing inside 60-miles of their San Antonio, Texas headquarters of the expectation to be within the workplace three days per week. Very similar to these monetary establishments, that schedule feels about proper to me whilst I’m simply beginning my journey again to an workplace after 20 years.

Cisco welcomes monetary companies establishments to go to our Atlanta workplace, our flagship Penn 1 Plaza in New York Metropolis, our company campus in San Jose or any CXC across the U.S. and the world to expertise first-hand our perspective of the brand new hybrid office. We encourage our prospects to come back in-person and expertise our know-how and options. That’s precisely the aim of those places – to see how our experience and expertise as a supplier of hybrid work capabilities interprets into our personal investments in individuals and locations – and to debate how they match into your establishment’s technique as effectively.

In these new workplace environments, you will note the three key areas for hybrid work deployed:

Empowering your individuals – Options that improve your group’s flexibility, enhance productiveness, and increase innovation.
Remodeling your workspaces – Smarter workspaces that join individuals in new methods assist to help their well being and well-being.
Bettering your know-how – Cisco collaboration, safety, and networking merchandise

In case you are trying to making your places of work extra participating and environment friendly attain out your Cisco Account Supervisor or Cisco Companion to rearrange a go to to see it motion. Within the meantime you may take digital excursions of Webex Workspaces or the New York Metropolis workplace, Penn 1 Plaza.