New employee, I'm just wondering, since my last company laid me off a few days before Easter.
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Layoffs at Nike don’t stop, they never have. The difference is the onsie twosies that happen on a weekly basis don’t have to be reported publicly. Your hat can drop at anytime if you’re arbitrarily identified RIG on a third party excel spreadsheet. My advice, get ahead of it and start your search. It’s a rough market.
HR and leadership want to lay people off then go take their vacation and sleep like a baby.
I was laid off on DEC 2 so def not
“A few days before Easter” lol
Youre not safe for the holidays. Good news is that no one works between Thanksgiving and New Year. Enjoy the ride
Seriously. Is there ever a good time to be laid off?
Easter!?!? Hahahahahhahahahhahahababbahababsbbabshabhahahahagahahhahahhahahhhaha… Nike gives 0 sh--s about Easter. Welcome to corporate America LOL
They have done November and December layoffs.
Thry have called women in the hospital immediately after giving birth to lay them off.
They do not care.
Accenture does not care.
Did you say Nike and safe in the same sentence? Look out for yourself and assume that nobody has your back. HR is there to protect the company and your co workers only care about themselves. Get out and start looking!
IIRC, JD sent a company wide email BEFORE the holidays about layoffs and some teams (e.g., product innovation/NSRL) might have been impacted before the holidays.
To do layoffs the people doing the layoffs have to be around meaning HR and the Vp. It’s likely they will be on vacation. But in the new year watch out.
doing large layoffs requires a lot of planning and work and coordination, so no way HR is going to willingly take that on during the holidays
Safe is a pretty arbitrary term these days, it's more about the odds. Nike has laid off people the week before Thanksgiving so that corporate "taboo" has already been broken. I think the only time that might be considered less likely for layoffs is the week of Thanksgiving and the last two weeks of December simply due to available staff to oversee the operational aspects of the layoffs.
It also depends on the type of layoff. When it's a large action involving hundreds of people all in the same week then I would say all of December is an unlikely timeframe.
Unlike a lot of companies that do large layoffs, Nike does not do it via email. There are always meetings with every employee individually which is what draws out the process over a couple weeks.
If it's a small team (or individual) layoff then it's only the week of the holiday that I'd consider a no action timeframe since there's capacity to do that smaller type of action rear round.
Long story short, Nike doesn't consider the holidays as much as it used to in terms of layoff timing but there's still some residual courtesy to not doing it the same week.
Nope, has not been safe in the past