Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Cisco preps now for the hybrid workforce Cisco employees will work from home part of the time and be supported with the vendor's networking gear. Todd Nightingale (Cisco) Credit: Cisco Work-from-anywhere employees will no longer be treated as a second-class citizen, which means they will get best-in-class technology including SD-WAN appliances, cellular back-up alternatives, zero trust security support and maybe even battery back-up. That’s at least part of the plan for hybrid workers now and moving forward, said Cisco’s Todd Nightingale, executive vice president and general manager of the vendor's Enterprise Networking & Cloud business. “The ‘return-to-office’ concept is a myth -- it’s a world we have left behind.”