wynand van poortvliet / MediaPhotos / Getty Images Work-from employees will no longer be treated as a second-class citizen, which means they will get best-in-class technology including SD-WAN appliances, cellular backup alternatives, zero trust security support and maybe even battery backup. That’s at least part of the plan for hybrid workers now and moving forward, said Cisco’s Todd Nightingale, executive vice president and general manager of the company’s Enterprise Networking & Cloud business. “The ‘return-to-office’ concept is a myth--it’s a world we have left behind.” While the hybrid work strategy may be a plan for developing and selling Cisco’s enterprise networking products and services, it’s also the plan for its own workers.