Comments on: Cisco To Shut Down For 4 Days At Year End

By: 22 different ways to run Cisco

22 different ways to run Cisco — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:56:42 +0000

[...] The company is now in the news for its planned New Year shutdown to help trim €1bn of costs (link). In last month’s earnings call, it announced that it is expecting Q2 2009 revenue to be down [...]

By: Even Bigger Nightmare On Tech Street | 4 entrepreneur

Even Bigger Nightmare On Tech Street | 4 entrepreneur — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:27:20 +0000

[...] in orders from his end customers affects his business. Closer to home in Silicon Valley, companies like Cisco Systems (CSCO), Hewlett-Packard (HWP) and Adobe (ADBE) are shutting down for the holidays to save money. [...]

By: Even Bigger Nightmare On Tech Street

Even Bigger Nightmare On Tech Street — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:00:24 +0000

[...] in orders from his end customers affects his business. Closer to home in Silicon Valley, companies like Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Adobe are shutting down for the holidays to save [...]

By: Stardust Global Ventures » Extinction Events Don’t Just Hit the Yucatán Peninsula

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:23:39 +0000

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By: Gray Market Will Give Cisco & Dell The Blues - GigaOM

Gray Market Will Give Cisco & Dell The Blues - GigaOM — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:30:53 +0000

[...] are in trouble. Cisco has been preparing for rough seas for a while now and recently confirmed that it would shut down its business for four days at end of 2008. They have also suspended some events and participation in large trade [...]

By: Gray Market Will Give Cisco & Dell The Blues - GigaOM

Gray Market Will Give Cisco & Dell The Blues - GigaOM — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:30:53 +0000

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:02:59 +0000

“For first time in its history the company is going to shut down for four days at the end of the year”

“While this is not our first year-end shutdown as we followed this longstanding Silicon Valley practice in our early years as a company”

The author did not read the quote he used…. please brush up on basic journalism, or basic reading.

By: Year-end Shutdown for Cisco « Never the Bright Lights

Year-end Shutdown for Cisco « Never the Bright Lights — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:25:32 +0000

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:18:19 +0000

This is not really new. I worked at Cisco for nearly 10 years starting in 1996. There were at least 2 other occasions I can remember when employees were required to take vacation time. While Cisco didn’t do an official shut down (i.e. specify the days that had to be taken as vacation), they did require that everyone took 4 or more days of PTO time during the holidays.

By: A.T.

A.T. — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:43:24 +0000

Cisco plans and schedules it, sends people to paid vacation, manufacturing costs are cut, everything rescaled down to demand — everybody are happy, including investors, apart… yes, apart competitors who didn’t do that :)