CISCO SYSTEMS

Cisco Systems has been listed among the world's most ethical companies.

Governance and Ethics: Cisco promotes responsible business practices at every level of the company. They strive to conduct business ethically, honestly, and in accordance with their Code of Business Conduct and they expect all partners to meet their high ethical standards. The message for each employee is clear: any success that is not achieved ethically is no success at all. Cisco is committed to honesty, integrity, and transparency. The company's ethics team encourages employees worldwide to uphold these principles, while making it easy for them to report ethical concerns when they may arise. This is just one of the reasons Cisco is consistently ranked on Ethisphere's list of World's Most Ethical Companies. Best Practices Cisco designs its corporate governance policies to foster ethical conduct and comply with regulatory requirements and applicable laws for publicly listed companies. They implement practices that help manage the risks to which they are exposed and they align risk-taking appropriately with efforts to increase shareholder value. Collaborating with Stakeholders Cisco manages their CSR activities by engaging internal and external stakeholders, and many global frameworks inform and guide their efforts, including the Clinton Global Initiative and the World Economic Forum. Privacy and data protection, human rights, and freedom of access to information are among the concerns to which they direct their attention through working groups and operating committees. Values-Based Ethics Cisco believes integrity is more than compliance with applicable laws and regulations around the world. Even if something is technically legal, it might not be the right thing to do. Cisco's core values include integrity, respect, open communication and accountability, which in turn shape our selfgoverning policies and robust, award-winning Ethics Program. These efforts have been recognized by Ethisphere, as it named Cisco one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for five consecutive years.

Driving force for Ciscos culture

Cisco has given its culture an innovative approach by setting customers as their top priority. Cisco culture believes that, Customers come first. Customer feedback is considered very important in Cisco as they constantly strive to improve their performance and create a better experience for the customers. Their focus is on identifying problem area with customers. Customer satisfaction is used as an indicator to evaluate the companys performance.

Work culture at Cisco Cisco developed the idea of employee involvement and hence it introduced the concept of Decision Making Team. Cisco lived by the employee empowerment motto of Dont ask for permissions, ask for forgiveness later. Cisco maintains a proper balance between authority, responsibility and accountability. Employees are encouraged to take care of the company resources as if they were their own.

Cisco has created one of the best work cultures for its employees.

Let's look at some of the benefits of working at Cisco:

Financial benefits:

- Offers a great salary and a bonus that depends on the employee performance

- Organises, 'The Cisco Achievement Program (CAP) award' which is a monetary award given for a good performance of employees.

- Offers monetary rewards for employee referrals

- In order to achieve a better work-life balance, Cisco allows its employees to from home whenever it is necessary. Not only that, they even reimburse home broadband expenses.

-In order to reduce tax burdens, Sodexo food coupons are provided to the employees.

- Cisco's healthcare program covers the employee, his/her spouse and parents for a major sum, which covers the cost of surgeries or treatments every year.

- An American Express corporate card is offered to its employees for all the business related expense , in India or abroad.

Work benefits:

- Cisco offers a great flexibility in work to its employees. If an employee wants to change his/her line of work, he/she can shift to another business unit of the company, rather than changing the company itself.

- Every employee is given laptop and they can work from anywhere, office or home. Even within the office, they can sit anywhere and work, even from the cafeteria.

- Work from home option provides a great flexibility of work to its employees

- Cisco is the market leader in various networking domains, so it is the best place to learn about and work on various technologies as there is large number of technologies.

- No one keeps a tab on when the employees come and go, how many hours they spend at office, etc. They choose their own time and style of work. So the company not only provides flexibility of work style but also offers flexibility in work hours.

Personal benefits: - Timesol concierge in Cisco takes care of the employees all personal chores, right from depositing cheques or paying bills, applying for a PAN card/ passport/driving license, booking movie tickets or train tickets, buying firecrackers, sending a letter via courier, etc.

- Cisco provides a world-class gym and health club within the campus, that is absolutely free for the employees.

- There is also basketball, volleyball and tennis courts and cricket ground in the campus. Health club has facilities for indoor sports like carrom , chess, billiards, football, table tennis, etc.

- Cisco has a great cafeteria which offers varieties of cuisine.

- ATM is available in the campus. And also the bank representatives visit the campus every week so employees can get their work done there.

- An Apollo Health Clinic and ambulance is there within the campus. Various medical programs are conducted for the employees.