When is it happening??
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Oh lord, I guess everyone is having their freakout over pending layoffs at different times. If we pretend this is not another troll post once again ba----g their head against the wall of unknowns then here's the reality. There have already been some early layoffs in APLA which are one-off role eliminations in advance of the much larger layoffs in the new year.
It is unlikely layoffs of any large scale will happen until January at the earliest. Assume the typical Nike process which is decisions are being finalized now through January with delays because everyone at Nike always assumes productivity and attendance will be perfect through the Holidays when it never is. Then the HR layoff machine gets engaged and the mass layoffs probably start late January/early February for any roles that are known to be completely redundant with no need for India HQ offshoring.
Most likely like all previous layoffs it will be something like staying on the payroll for three months then official employment end date hits. So most of us that are going to be laid off in the first wave will be laid off in the first three months of 2027. Then expect rolling mass layoffs for the next five years while India HQ gets built and staffed to replace the FTEs in the Americas and Europe for the remaining roles that are not being eliminated but instead offshored. Assume you will be working with the threat of your job ending as soon as an Indian worker can be hired for it or a vendor can take it over for the next 5 years. This is the PACE strategy as clearly defined in the last earnings call. Human capital at Nike is not an asset, it is an expense to be remediated or eliminated as quickly as possible while still following labor laws.
APLA layoffs are most likely part of the first wave layoffs since those are mostly redundancy layoffs with full role eliminations rather than offshoring. So to be safe I would assume needing to find a new job in 2027 if you're in APLA fulfilling a role that has other equivalent roles in the newly combined geo. And to be clear this isn't fear mongering, we all know it's coming, and to be fair not every APLA role is going away, many will be folded into the new structure..
No.
January