A blogger about Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) obtained access to internal video and audio recordings of company execs discussing the tech giant’s new layoff round that will affect some 6,000 workers.

News site Business Insider published some of the information, including an interesting remark from Chief Operating Officer Gary Moore.

“This is the fourth [restructuring] in four years. … We constrained [hiring] requisitions for anyone listing [a new job]. As a leader, they knew they were constrained. We were very careful about where we added. Some leaders did a better job than others in terms of hiring and adjusting their expectations. We saw our revenue in the first half. We were very open with every employee about that. … We’ve invested 2,000 people last year just in cloud. One of our growth areas. We hired 1,300 people through acquisitions and 25% of all people we hired were university hires [new college grads]. We need to as leaders see that and make room, not in a yearly, annual restructuring. It’s just a wrong way to do it.”

Moore attended Cisco’s announced expansion of some 500 jobs in RTP back in June. He is considered a front-runner to replace Chairman and CEO John Chambers when Chambers decides to retire.

So how should Cisco handle hiring, layoffs and work force changes?

The full Business Insider report can be read online.

Cisco operates its second largest corporate campus in RTP. 

Router Market Share Plunges: Report

A big drop in router market share is one big challenge Cisco is facing.

“While the overall trend in Cisco’s market share has been a steady decline, Q2 was surprisingly weak after a relatively strong first quarter” said Jeremy Duke, Synergy Research Group’s founder and Chief Analyst, according to a report in Telecom Lead.

Cisco’s market share has dropped to 41 percent from more than 50 percent in the first quarter of 2012.

Sales of service provider and Ethernet carrier router sales increased 9 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of this year to $3.5 billion, and Cisco is still the market-share leader.

But its share declined more than 5 points in the second quarter. 

For more details, read the Telecom Lead report.