Cisco has told its 75,000 staff they can stay working remotely.
Under the company’s ‘no return to office’ policy, the company has said it will not set any benchmark for the number of days per week employees need to spend in their offices.
As an alternative, staff will be labelled as hybrid workers, with the company's leadership, encouraging managers to grant workers flexibility in whether they work remotely or in the office.
Previously, 95% of Cisco’s office space was allocated to individual offices.
However, the company now plans to reconfigure its campuses to prioritise group work and team collaboration events.
Cisco’s announcement follows an announcement from Apple that they have pushed back on calling its staff back into their offices until October.
The company is now allowing its workers to continue remote working for an extra month as the COVID-19 Delta virus wreaks havoc across the US.
ICEO Tim Cook requests staff return to the office for three days a week starting from September but following news infection rates have spiked this plan has been put back an additional month.
