There's no reason why they couldn't have done this all in one day. Letting it drag out like this only causes more unnecessary stress to employees. Even when it comes to layoffs, you can see the difference between good and bad management in the way it is handled. Nike management just proved how bad they are in every aspect.
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There's a lot of upper management bloat that seriously needs to be gone. Too many VPs, Senior Directors, and Directors that honestly don't contribute much to making the products Nike sell better. They are just a giant money su-k. Unfortunately, as people have mentioned, it's all nepotism, friendlies, and empire building. If you aren't part of the "core" team or whatever, you'll get outcasted regardless if you are good talent.
@lrj+1pXjby3N Our DEI initiatives are a complete joke . Which is why we will never get an actual DEI breakdown for the corporate environment because the truth is most of our DEI hires are athletes that are promoting the brand, not actually driving any decisions behind so no real representation . Or they’re in positions of little importance that offer no development, or power to effect change. A figurehead if you will. Nike stands for the opposite of everything they tell you, literal weeks before holiday season you lay off people, begin the reorg process and tell folks this is going to drag into February. I can imagine all the heads that are gonna roll that will skew that DEI number even further into he-l.
Factoring in worker productivity loss alone would’ve saved all jobs 😂
What we heard in our team was that these lay offs going to continue in January. I show up at work every day with extreme anxiety and fear! Zero focus on my work.... My team shows zero interest in taking their job done and I can't blame them.....
Bloated budgets and Orgs yet somehow the problem people seem to survive. Enough money for fancy buffets and events, business class travel all year for entire teams,, millions spent consultants to tell us what we already know….. Nike is NOT A people company and I’d do behind in DEI it’s disgusting. So much lip service and zero integrity.
There is also no reason why this could’ve have been avoided entirely. Some companies manage this though transparency and natural attrition. Some companies have a strategy and know how to leverage and manage their people. Some companies have standards for inclusion and weed out empire building and nepotism. Oh but not Nike. Nope, Nike knows best and is completely resistant to outside pints of view!
By dragging it out with a certain number of people per 30/90 days, they get out of the Warn list.
Warn trigger:
BUSINESS CLOSING:
A covered employer must give notice if an employment site (or one or more facilities or operating units within an employment site) will be shut down and the shutdown will result in an employment loss* for 50 or more employees during any 30-day period.
MASS LAYOFF:
A covered employer must give notice if there is a mass layoff, which does not result from a business closing, but will result in an employment loss* at the employment site during any 30-day period for 500 or more employees, or for 50-499 employees if they make up at least 33 percent of the employer’s active workforce.
An employer must also give notice if the number of employment losses, which occur during a 30 day period, fails to meet the threshold requirement of a business closing or mass layoff but the number of employment losses of two or more groups of workers, each of which is less than the minimum number needed to trigger notice, reaches the threshold level during any 90-day period of a business closing or mass layoff. Job losses within any 90-day period will count toward WARN threshold levels unless the employer demonstrates that the employment losses during the 90-day period are the result of separate and distinct actions and causes.
They dripped out the layoffs in 2017, and I think in subsequent layoffs. I imagine there is a rationale for this (?), but not fun at all.