Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

External hires are changing Nike

Those who have been with Nike long enough to remember a company where PHK culture was strong and we walked the talk (mostly) are dismayed by the state of the company today -- we have brought in so many senior leaders from other companies, who have come in and stacked their management teams with yet even more external hires (usually from their previous company), all the while not knowing or caring to know about the culture of the company they walked into, all the while espousing the importance of Nike's special culture. Nike has evolved into a company that is more about the bottom line and less about the employee. Want just one example? Closing the on-campus childcare centers.
Yes, I know about COVID and nobody is on campus right now. Blah blah blah.
But when we come back, the child care centers will not be open. I don't care about that personally as I am not in a place in my life where I have child-care-center aged children, but that used to be a special perk for the employee, to drop their kids off on campus. It was for the employee. Probably lost money. But now it's been chopped off.

I think @ajla+1aF7GZ79 hit the nail on the head.

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Getting chippy going after any of the "Old Gods"'.

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Post ID: @3fje+1aQTdv4L

People like Nelson F. are the reason there is a Nike affording you the opportunity to have a job at the Swoosh that clearly you don’t deserve.

Yeah if only we got rid of the dead weight like Nelson, Tinker, and H... good grief you are pathetic

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Post ID: @1qlx+1aQTdv4L

The closing of the child care centers was a message to everyone that Nike does not want people with families (benefits cost them too much) and they don't want people who plan on staying at Nike for a long time - i.e. settling down and starting a family.

They want younger people without attachments who only plan on staying for a couple of years. It's basically becoming Amazon.

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Post ID: @lgf+1aQTdv4L

Yes, completely focus on one person, Nelson F. That will surely invalidate my original post...

While you may have a point in there somewhere, my point is that the dissolution of a company culture that was more employee-centered is a bad thing. Today we are all much more thought of as simple commodities than valuable employees.

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Post ID: @coy+1aQTdv4L

The external hire syndrome has ruined many companies. The external hires do not bringing fresh ideas but recycled nonsense from their previous experiences. Usually if it's kept to a trickle it will work without diluting the culture but when it becomes a flood watch out. Abandon ship boys she's going down.

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Post ID: @vwc+1aQTdv4L

Change is inevitable. Get with the times.

People like Nelson F. needs to take a hike, he is on the payroll doing absolutely nothing.

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