Connect Everything: A Tech Company Rises to the Refugee Challenge

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Tech companies that show social responsibility can still be profitable. Cisco Systems is one of those companies that is giving back to a number of different causes. This truthful piece of information is one of the biggest reasons why the company ended up with the Golden Peacock Award.

You can innovate and try to set things up on a global stage, companies that understand how technology can lift people out of poverty all over the world need to be embraced. There is a lot of hard work that can be done on behalf of the most impoverished people around the world. Cisco Systems is going to make things easier for everyone to care about each other, communicate across continents.

Employees at Cisco are very generous and tend to give a lot of money to global causes. The Cisco Systems Foundation is a great sign of the culture that Cisco built.

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