How Cisco’s Time2Give Connects Careers, Global Strategy, and Local Impact

Recently, I swapped my laptop and keyboard for work gloves and a shovel.

Thanks to Cisco’s Time2Give benefit, which provides 80 hours of paid time off for employees to support causes they care about, a few of my colleagues from the Supply Chain Sustainability & Regulatory team and People & Communities spent a week in Maine’s Acadia National Park with the Sierra Club and Friends of Acadia, restoring trails so hikers can enjoy them for years to come.

We camped inside the park, spending our days working alongside park rangers and conservation staff, and taking part in projects that have both immediate and lasting benefits for visitors and the landscape alike. One major effort we participated in was restoring hiking trails that had become overgrown, clearing soil and encroaching plants from pathways to make them safer and more accessible while protecting the plant life that borders…