Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

🚨 Layoff Rumor Watch: What Are You Hearing?

Hearing whispers about possible layoffs, reorganizations, hiring freezes, or team cuts?

Post what you’ve heard below. Please label everything as unverified rumor/speculation, avoid naming or identifying individual employees, and don’t share confidential or proprietary information.

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What was the rumor?
Which department/area was it about?
When did you hear it?
Was it firsthand or secondhand?
How confident are you?
Let’s keep this thread focused on separating rumor from confirmed information. If something gets officially confirmed, update your comment so others know.


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Post ID: @OP+1m1bwk2pf

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Business is down. Shoes not selling.
Need new design leadership.
Bring fresh ideas. Leaders in production have been there for decades.

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Post ID: @c4+1m1bwk2pf

@a5 Then you know nothing.

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Post ID: @c1+1m1bwk2pf

You can measure the amount of trolls out here by the number of thumbs downs any Nike positive post gets.

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Post ID: @c0+1m1bwk2pf

@bp does the expain the influx of SE1's that were hired in the last few weeks?

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Post ID: @bs+1m1bwk2pf

@ad

You need to start hiring younger (cheaper) talent now so that those that are let go in the fall have time to train them in advance. Thus the surge in postings now.

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Post ID: @bp+1m1bwk2pf

No 2 extra months on payroll is my guess.

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Post ID: @bk+1m1bwk2pf

@a6 so what if they are?

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Post ID: @bh+1m1bwk2pf

99% workforce reduction and outsourced to AI, Accenture and India to wind down final liquidiations of remaining inventory through Kohls and Footlocker. WHQ shut down and converted to general business park for external leasing to other companies and new $100,000 per occupant cost Portland Homeless shelters funded by incremental income tax of 20%. Pivot to being an AI Virtual Token meme stock run by the remnants of the board to cash out billions in a rug pull maneuver.

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Post ID: @b7+1m1bwk2pf

End of Q2, garden leave through Xmas break, second hand.

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Post ID: @b6+1m1bwk2pf

Hunch: Our new CFO will lower severance.

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Post ID: @az+1m1bwk2pf

@ad DD was coordinating long before he came on board, plenty of time for changes this fall

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Post ID: @av+1m1bwk2pf

I am hearing VA will be next CEO

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Post ID: @a8+1m1bwk2pf

The Oregonian at it again with fishing for stories and details here with this post.

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Post ID: @a6+1m1bwk2pf

It is happening, but can’t share more details.

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Post ID: @a5+1m1bwk2pf

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