…the owners of TheLayoff.com! At this point we must’ve tripled their ads revenue. I was checking another company here (you know, just curious…), and I’ve got so impressed that I checked others. No other company has the level of engagement Nike has. The most active one has one message per MONTH in average and we’re ki-ling it. #WinAsATeam
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In one of the LinkedIn comment the commentator mentioned reading Nike related posts on layoffs.com .. I don't know what/how to feel about that TBH..
Nike took their special sauce, removed every decent ingredient, sold it for 5 times the price and then got shocked when it failed and every ingredient they removed was added to other company recipies to make them better.
The competition has won, biggest doesn't mean best, just means you have further to fall. Nike has flown too close to the sun, become cocky / arrogant and will hurtle to the earth with a thud.
P.S. The entire socially engineered business model cannot cope with Trump / MAGA. They stand for everything that Nike does not. Unsure how they can survive without ditching their ideals and ethics.
LOL... blaming the person being riffed for the rifs... clearly don't get it.
And this cr-p about PWC/Bain/ consulting companies... come on...
"There used to be staff augmentation specialty consultants who flew from across the country into Nike and who effectively plugged these gaps and up skilled the green employees as much as they could. "
It's THE consulting companies causing the issues along with tone deaf management.
Management: "we aren't smart enough to figure out how a company should run so we instead pay a bunch of consulting fees for stupid plans".
Maybe... JUST maybe... get better managers?
I know I know... ludicrous.
If Nike did a better job hiring people with actual qualifications relevant to their roles, layoffs and re orgs wouldn’t be so endemic. No, I’m not blaming diversity initiatives, I’m blaming poor screening and management structures who know nothing of the skills, work and products that their own freaking org builds and/or depends on. There used to be staff augmentation specialty consultants who flew from across the country into Nike and who effectively plugged these gaps and up skilled the green employees as much as they could. The cost associated with 100% travel for flights, hotels, and the hourly rates demanded by people with these skill sets would never have been sustainable for Nike to shoulder forever. However, suddenly pulling the rug out from underneath that operating model isn’t working out so well, is it? Nike is not a technology company, it’s a brand, a battered brand. ( and good luck trying to relocate any of those skilled workers to Beaverton, let alone travel there like that again - we’ve all moved wayyy on past Nike )
It’s not a beaverton issue. We have 6 or 7 global headquarters. Insane amounts of rooe duplication multiplied by international politics and fighting for relevancy. We compete internally more than externally. But in a way that causes waste not efficiency.
The is one of the main issues of Nike - 3 times as many people as other brands (at least) trying to prove their job is necessary and then freaking out every two years hoping they get to stick around cushy Beaverton
Nike leadership doesn’t have guts to take hard decisions about people. Only thing that may save the company is competition is strong but with very very small scale. Think Under Armour when they were growing bonkers.
both intel and nike are rotting circuses
if they do enough cleaning they may, may survive
OP, with sharp employees like you, no other company has to do anything to make Nike fail. You are enough.
Nobody else is doing layoffs in such a hot mess style as Nike. YEARS of culture-crashing chaos.
OP, I can tell you’re not the sharpest tool. On a site called the layoff you need to check a company that has, you know, layoffs. Check Intel and come back and give us an update.
Even the Nike page gets very quiet when there are no layoffs on the horizon.