Eric Yuan Quotes

I think many businesses will allow their employees to work from home. The main challenge here is how to make sure Zoom will give a better and safer experience to users than compared to that in an office environment.

On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.

Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

I work on weekends, but from home.

If you think about Cisco's offerings like TelePresence, where it's an immersive way to communicate for businesses to connect and have conversations in a real-time immersive mode, how that will change health care, how that'll change retail business, how that'll change actually travel. There's lots of changes that we will see going forward.

I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce.

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

I think in general the Zoom interviews are harder because of the slight delay and then trying to jump in and ask questions can be more difficult.

Believe it or not, joining a video conference call from home doesn't always have to make you feel like an idiot.

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.

I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

I think because Skype is becoming so much more prevalent, and you're looking at someone else on a screen, it's going to work its way into movies and TV shows in all different ways, which I think is really cool.

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.

As far as employees are concerned, clearly I like to communicate with them, since we are more than 40,000 people. I like to communicate either through e-mail or through video conferencing, which we do very often, and stream out videos and interviews. But more than that, I believe in traveling to my branches.