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Cisco Headquarters & offices · San Jose, California
Cisco · San Jose, California
A campus of dozens of buildings on Tasman Drive, four “Days for Me” off every year, and ten paid days to volunteer.
The campus, the time off and the road from Menlo Park to North San Jose — then the pay and the business. Every number from Cisco's own filings, newsroom and benefits pages.
- 4 + 1Days for Me, plus your birthday off
- 10 dayspaid volunteering a year (Time2Give)
- 86,200employees, July 2025
- $56.7Brevenue, FY2025
Sources: Form 10-K FY2025 · Cisco Q4 FY2025 results · cisco.com ESG Hub, Benefits · newsroom.cisco.com (1993)
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THE HEADQUARTERS · TASMAN DRIVE, SAN JOSE
A campus where every building is themed after a country
Cisco's headquarters is a corporate campus of dozens of low office buildings along Tasman Drive in North San Jose, on land Cisco first leased in 1993 — 46 acres beside the Guadalupe River. In a renovation of four buildings (349,000 sq ft) designed by NELSON, each building took the theme of a place where Cisco does business — Building 1 Japan, Building 2 Australasia, Building 19 Eastern Europe — with cafés cut into the building cores, free-address neighborhoods, and game, nap and yoga rooms.
- Dozens of buildings
- 46-acre site leased in 1993
- 4 buildings renovated by NELSON (349,000 sq ft)
- Themed by country
- Nap, game and yoga rooms
- Network Emergency Response Vehicles on site
The campus on Tasman Drive
Cisco offices around the world
Facts: newsroom.cisco.com, Feb 25, 1993 · Office Snapshots, “Cisco Offices – San Jose” (NELSON, 2018) · Wikipedia (campus, emergency vehicles). Photos credited on each image.
The Tasman Drive campus
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (company address) | 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134 |
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, cover page · See them on the map ↓
Source: newsroom.cisco.com, Feb 25, 1993 · Office Snapshots (NELSON) · Wikipedia (Chicago, announced August 2020, 130,000 sq ft)
Benefits
Designated days off each year for everyone.
A paid day off for your birthday.
Paid Time2Give days a year.
At least 13 weeks for primary caregivers, regardless of gender.
Free sessions per year, per concern, through the EAP.
Cisco matched gifts to approved nonprofits up to $10,000 a year (2019).
Paid time off to vote in major national elections.
An Employee Stock Purchase Plan to buy Cisco shares at a discount.
Source: cisco.com ESG Hub, Benefits (FY2025) · blogs.cisco.com, June 26, 2019 (donation matching)
How Cisco keeps people, in its own words
Four designated days off a year when the whole company rests, on top of vacation.
Paid days a year to volunteer for a cause of your choice.
About 2 million check-ins by roughly 65,700 employees in FY2025 — Cisco's way of talking about strengths and priorities with your manager every week.
At least 13 weeks for primary caregivers of any gender, more in many countries.
Per year, per concern, in person or virtual, through the Employee Assistance Program.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Human Capital · cisco.com ESG Hub, Benefits
Who works here
employees (July 26, 2025)
full-time employees in San Jose and the Bay Area
in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — the second-largest U.S. campus
founded by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · Wikipedia (campus headcounts)
Office history: from Menlo Park to Tasman Drive
- 1984 Founded by two Stanford staffers
Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who ran computers at Stanford University, founded Cisco on December 10, 1984.
Source: Wikipedia, “Cisco”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Early 1990s Menlo Park and six leased buildings
By early 1993 Cisco's headquarters was in Menlo Park, with six leased buildings across Menlo Park, Mountain View and Santa Clara.
Source: newsroom.cisco.com, Feb 25, 1993
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1993 A 46-acre site on Tasman Drive
Cisco signed a five-year lease, with options to buy, on 46 acres in North San Jose beside the Guadalupe River, saying it intended to move its headquarters there.
Source: newsroom.cisco.com, Feb 25, 1993
Building 10, Cisco's executive offices, San Jose, 2006 · Travis Wise / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1990s–today 170 West Tasman Drive
The San Jose campus grew to dozens of buildings, and its filings give the headquarters as 170 West Tasman Drive.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, cover · Wikipedia
The San Jose campus, 2005 · Miles Gehm / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2015 Building 10 is rebuilt for new ways of working
New CEO Chuck Robbins set a goal of the most innovative employee experience in tech. Building 10 reopened with team areas, quiet rooms and floor-to-ceiling writing walls.
Source: blogs.cisco.com, September 21, 2015
Building 10, 2006 · Travis Wise / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2018 Four buildings themed by country
A NELSON renovation of four buildings themed each after a region where Cisco does business, with cafés, nap and yoga rooms.
Source: Office Snapshots, January 30, 2018
Renovated building, 2018 · Photo: Cortez Media Group / NELSON
Map: how the headquarters moved
Cisco moved once: about 30 km down the bay, from Menlo Park to the 46-acre site it leased on Tasman Drive in 1993.
- 1 · Early 1990sMenlo Park — Headquarters before the move (street address not in the release — marker at the city centre)
- 2 · 1990s–today170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose — The campus today
Addresses: newsroom.cisco.com (1993) · Form 10-K FY2025 cover · Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors
What Cisco does
Cisco makes the networking equipment and software that connects offices, data centers and the internet, plus security, collaboration (Webex) and observability (Splunk) products.
Revenue is reported as product categories plus services.
Where the money came from · revenue by category, FY2025
Source: Cisco reports fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 earnings (Aug 13, 2025)
Source: Cisco Q4 FY2025 results · Form 10-K FY2025 (employees) · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$49.2B → $56.7B
73,700 → 86,200
Fiscal years end in late July. Revenue and employees: Form 10-K for each year. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chair and CEO.
CEO for 20 years; stepped down on July 26, 2015.
CEO during the move to San Jose.
Co-founders: Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner (1984).
Source: Wikipedia, “Cisco” (years) · newsroom.cisco.com (1993)
Cisco: questions people ask
Where is Cisco's headquarters?
In North San Jose, California. The company address is 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134, on a campus of dozens of buildings.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · Wikipedia
When did Cisco move to San Jose?
Cisco signed a lease on a 46-acre site on Tasman Drive in February 1993, saying it would eventually move its headquarters there from Menlo Park.
Source: newsroom.cisco.com, Feb 25, 1993
What is a “Day for Me” at Cisco?
One of four designated days off each year when the company encourages everyone to rest — on top of vacation, plus a paid day off for your birthday.
Source: cisco.com ESG Hub, Benefits
Does Cisco pay employees to volunteer?
Yes. Time2Give gives 10 paid days a year to volunteer, and Cisco has matched donations to approved nonprofits up to $10,000 a year.
Source: cisco.com ESG Hub · blogs.cisco.com (2019)
How much parental leave does Cisco give?
At least 13 weeks for primary caregivers of any gender, with more in many countries.
Source: cisco.com ESG Hub, Benefits
Who designed Cisco's San Jose offices?
NELSON redesigned four campus buildings (349,000 sq ft), each themed after a region where Cisco does business.
Source: Office Snapshots, 2018
How many people work at Cisco?
About 86,200 as of July 26, 2025.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025
Where else does Cisco have big offices?
Its second-largest U.S. campus is in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (about 7,000 people), and it opened a Midwest headquarters in Chicago's Old Main Post Office.
Source: Wikipedia
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