Cisco employees work from home

For the first time in Saudi Arabia, Cisco employees are not required to come to the office every day. They can do their job working from home or anywhere they choose, by logging in on an office network via Internet.
General Manager Tariq Enaya made this observation on Sunday during a media forum with Cisco officials at their head office in Riyadh. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate.
Enaya also announced the launch of Cisco Connect Saudi Arabia 2013 at Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh on Feb. 4-5, which will replace the previous Cisco Expo program.
Cisco strives to make working remotely a viable option for anyone. As continued innovation in collaborative technologies, 2013 will see Cisco continue launch new solutions and developments, which make it easier for people to collaborate anywhere, anytime and on any device. These solutions will be focused on unified communication, a next generation of online meetings, as well as social collaboration.
Mohammed Alwosh Al-Sammarraie, country leader for Cisco Collaboration in Saudi Arabia, introduced Cisco WebEx Meetings Server, Cisco Jabber and the nest generation Cisco TelePresence.
Cisco WebEx Meetings Server is an offering designed for organizations in Saudi Arabia that require a fully on-site conferencing solution housed in their own data centers.
Cisco Jabber is an app that delivers secure, reliable communication services. It enables users to dynamically form and participate in virtual communities, providing a collaboration tool to help them work together on any device at any time.
The next generation Cisco TelePresence for customers in the Kingdom will include a new three-screen immersive TelePresence platform. The Cisco TelePresence TX9000 Series delivers the highest quality video experience along with advanced collaboration capabilities, further building on Cisco’s wide array of TelePresence endpoints for customers of all sizes. It integrates with collaboration tools like Cisco WebEx with One-Touch simplicity and is also designed to work with all standards-based endpoints from other vendors.
Talking on supporting diversity initiatives through hiring a female work force, Buthayna Al-Wehaibi, network consulting engineer at Cisco, said: "Today, female presence in Cisco Saudi Arabia is about 15 percent of total headcount with the company offering a variety of flexible working conditions to suit their varying needs and provide adequate work-life balance.
“I am proud to be a living example of how Cisco is creating opportunities for women in the Saudi work force. I have worked at Cisco for almost six years during which I achieved an important certificate and attended an eight-month training program in Jordan and India.”