Cisco Reorganization To Affect 25,000 Employees: Sources

Applications are flying from Cisco like so many owls in Harry Potter film,according to sources. A massive reorganization of Cisco routing and switching business engineering has, up to 25,000 people.This includes some massive changes to the device that generated $ 21700000000 in sales,or 60% of total 2013 sales of the company.

Engineering teams are lit under the head of Engineering Pankaj Patel.It is passed from individual to individual product teams concentrated in two large multi-functional teams with a group focused on software that other hardware.We understand that senior managers Manager to go with the general title away,but people under them, with the title of vice president and vice president are not the main objective.Thus,Cisco will not have enough to cut middle management.


However,sources tell us,many older people have dusted off their resumes and are looking around.It is a good time to network and infrastructure start ups for Cisco people are asking.Back in the company,is the goal of the reorganization around the small fiefdom,the General Manager of Cisco products have emerged in recent years under the/system to eliminate. By all into two groups,Cisco expects people to work together and to share more, so that the entire company more agile.

The reorganization came from the recommendations of two independent consultants,according to a source.But in the short term, several sources have said that there is a lot of confusion and frustration,especially around budget,as each manager tries to figure out what resources remain and what she found.This is to be expected with a major reorganization, a source said.

Cisco has not publicly discussed the reorganization much.Although he said he would do another round of layoffs in August.As previously reported,this was the fourth year in a row,the Cisco fiscal year ended by employees to observe redundancy letters.These cuts, however,is expected to be in the whole of society; not only from the technical unit switching / routing.Cisco executives said employees are also engaged in some units.When the dust settles,expect that Cisco is its template slimmer 8% or 6,000 fewer people.