A similar sized company with a Portland footprint just conducted layoffs and a reorg. It was completed in 1 day. Why does it take Nike 5 months to cut a few hundred jobs and role out a new org structure and strategy that’s been known at the VP level since the beginning of the year?
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@a3 Oops Ba-f
@a2 they didn't use a consulting firm this time. It's a whole team at Nike now....
@a6 tech did two rounds over two months and are still effected by the business side going down this week.
Because the same type of CEO and same consulting firms have always made all the ill-informed decisions.
VPs get moved and promoted every re-org, while the people who do the actual work suffer.
Tech did it in a day. Wish others were as efficient. Figure could learn from their own success.
@a2 this is what I kind of assumed
Because they need to wait for their buddies who’re on well-deserved vacation to come back so that they know which positions their buddies want to take
Because if it was quicker the consulting company couldn't bill as many hours to Nike for their "grand reorg plan" and all the management that was staying past the RIF couldn't spend endless hours in catered food meetings with them.
That reads like a troll or joke but it 100% is not.