Europe, the Middle East and Africa, revenue fell 3% to £2.3bn. Ok so why those in EMEA so ''shocked and startled'' about the layoffs?! Work harder, get better results, then maybe you can keep you jobs.
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EMEA over performed the previous years.
Everything will have strong years and weaker years. You seem very young and not very wise.
I guess if you’ve never left the US you’d have a hard time appreciating the differences between your country, which is one flavour, and the scope of people, cultures, and trends across all the European countries + all of ME + all of the rest of the world, basically.
One size doesn’t fit all.
The world doesn’t want to buy America any more.
Europe is more active, more fit. Young people over here aren’t into marketing where some fat chick with gold teeth twerks her giant caboose at talks about being empowered.
When I first went to Nike in OR I was blown away by how EVERYONE was fat, even at Nike.
It’s not an athlete brand anymore.
Americans don’t care but it’s a tough sell everywhere else.
OP is rude but they have a point. You get what you get you can't blane your sub par performance on bad product, the strategy is worse than anything else!
OP, Seems like you saw someone in EMEA get promoted into a job in global you really wanted...
I think you need to inform yourselves better. The path isn't always greener. Europe protections don't mean you don't get fired, they just means it takes a bit longer. At the end of the day, you're still without a job. US severance package is MUCH better than the Dutch one for instance. And for the record, maternity leave is not 1 year in EHQ, far from it: https://www.government.nl/topics/employment-contract-and-a-collective-labour-agreement-cao/question-and-answer/what-types-of-leave-are-there
What an ignorant post. There were times GC or NA were underperforming, and no one was demanding a bloodbath. Plus, revenue fell in EMEA because the previous comps were insanely high (double-digit growth for multiple and successive quarters), so obviously when it stabilized, it was never going to be able to compete with previous periods. And by the way, sh-t products are not the geo's fault, as someone said.
That’s not the fault of EMEA, it’s the fault of bad product design that is so far off base of the European market it’s seen as garbage.
You can’t sell garbage and call it “style”
When brands like La Sportiva and Helly Hansen are kicking butt on European design, and Nike just tries picking more dunks and Jordan… it’s an issue.
Oh dear @OP.
“Pathatic”
“Ok so why those”
“keep you jobs.”
You made a relatively decent mess out of that one!
America is better.
And paid & job protected maternity/paternity leave that’s up to a year.
I’d rather have half pay with labor law protection, affordable healthcare, and affordable higher education.
would you rather have half the pay or better labor protections?
It’s stupid to not have protection in the states, don’t be so jealous of countries that do have labor law and protects regular workers.
Pathetic*
Whilst facts don't lie, there's no reason to be nasty about it. It's stressful for people.
Only geo with negative growth... sad days! Time for turnover....
that's embarassing. They deserve layoffs then. The irony is they won't have many cause of their stupid protection.
- Grebert will def. lose job now...lol.