Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

When your manager/team/department turn on you because you got cancer, you know the place is rotten to its core.

I also quit nike at the end of last year after 3 years but I never ever updated my Li to reflect that I work at Nike in the first place. Three years ago when I had my Nike offer I was on glass door and stumble across a post who said many years ago Nike offered them a position but revoke the offer a few days before the start date and while they moved across country! Therefore I also accepted a remote job offer simultaneously with Nike and remained employed for the entire 3 years! Believe me or not, I was grade 40 at Nike and was a middle manager with no real job description! I tried to find an agenda for my role but I also had another manager above me who was hungry for managing my team just to say he is a bigger manager! So yeah for 3 straight years, I collected 135k from Nike and 165k from the other remote role and never updated my LinkedIn!

A lot of retirements as well. Many waited to see the healthcare changes before leaving.

It's possible to come up with a variety of different reasons for the timing. LinkedIn is not a real time status update platform. It's a highly curated platform where people carefully manage their public perception and choose to shape the message of what they want others to hear. So, it's going to be mixed bag including...

1. People choosing to say they resigned rather than were laid off
2. People that were laid off months ago choosing to post the news at the end of the year when it feels like a natural break point to close the chapter at Nike.
3. People who legitimately resigned and it made sense to do it at the end of the year and start fresh in 2026.
4. People who were laid off months or even years ago but were still officially employed by Nike until the end of this year (only relevant for the VP and above crowd).

For many the last week may have been the first real mental break they've had to make decisions and compose a message over the holiday week.

There's no one single event that's happened the last couple of weeks, it's most likely just an aggregate of actions and decisions that have coincidentally lined up at the end of this year.

@OP it’s everything that ISN’T going on. People don’t leave jobs - they leave sh*ty leaders. The culture is toxic and has been for a while. Nike isn’t going to recover from this for a long time. You can only walk around doing unethical sit for so long before it catches up. When you can’t have a voice and HR protects the VPs and their favs it’s time to really speak up throw the shoes away and move on. #resilience #toxic