Bob Cicero

It's going to be done by the digital worker.

And how do you really think about that from the standpoint of bringing humans together more is what's actually going to happen over time.

For sure.

And you think about, sure, AI and the thinking models that are out there and models are going to get better over time.

But it's really the value of humans getting together and really thinking through an issue that the machine might not be able to do or provide some creative thought to come together.

But to your point of tasks that you did or done at home, is the digital worker going to do that for you?

Maybe, probably.

When we first started this, we were thinking about how do we amplify humans with the intersection of people-centeredness?

space and technology.

Now we have this added component on it that's clearly coming at us from a technology perspective when we think about that.

It's still that, but some of the tasks are going to be taken away and it's really going to be this further amplification, I believe, of the value of space and what is actually happening there with the humans that are occupying it.

We started this journey before the pandemic, quite honestly, as a company.

If you look at Cisco and our heritage here and our history is dot-com boom, and we were wiring the world for the internet.

And then we were catering to employees that wanted to work remote many, many years ago, and then the pandemic hit.

In 2019, we actually came together as a group and as part of that group inside the organization to really rethink the value of space and what you

actually need to put into that space for humans to do their best work.

Started that effort in 2019.

Pandemic hit in March of 2020.

Gave us a lot of time to think as we were sort of stalled in terms of what the world was going to be.

We reimagined our workspaces and workplaces and really wanted to bring to the market something unique and different.