Cisco to lay-off 1,100 more employees as revenues continue to slide

Sooraj Shah
Sooraj Shah
clock 18 May 2017 •
Cisco's restructuring programme will cost $850m
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Cisco's restructuring programme will cost $850m

Networking giant to axe more staff on top of the 5,500 to had already planned to make redundant

Networking giant Cisco is to lay-off 1,100 more staff as part of a restructuring programme to shift the company's focus from hardware to software. The company had announced last year that it was cutting...

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