Laid off from Nike.

Previous rounds

Nike layoff history

Nike's reductions have tracked its strategy resets. The 2024 round, about 1,600 roles, executed the $2 billion cost plan announced the prior December, and the Beaverton headquarters absorbed more than 700 cuts in the June wave alone, disclosed through Oregon WARN filings. The 2026 technology cuts arrived with the new CEO's turnaround plan and a consolidation of technology work into two named hubs.

The package specifics have stayed unpublished, but the structure that surfaced matters. Affected 2024 employees were reported kept on payroll for 60 days without working, with severance following. That reporting described the shape of the arrangement rather than the amounts, and 2024 is the only round in the record we track where a notice structure was described at all.

The hub detail in the 2026 round is the part worth reading closely. Nike named the Beaverton campus and the Nike India Technology Center as the two hubs its technology work would be concentrated in, and it published no role count per team and none per location, so where those 1,400 roles sat isn't on the public record. Oregon's filings disclosed the 2024 headquarters cuts, while the three 2026 filings our tracker holds came from Tennessee, Mississippi and Missouri.

Two rounds landed in 2026, and neither one was in Oregon. In January, Nike cut 775 employees, primarily at distribution centers in Tennessee and Mississippi, saying it was "sharpening our supply chain footprint, accelerating the use of advanced technology and automation." Tennessee's filing put 583 of those jobs at two Memphis facilities, effective April 3, 2026, in a city where the annual report counts four of Nike's eight significant American distribution centers. In April the reshaping reached manufacturing, and Nike told Missouri it would permanently reduce 172 positions at the St. Charles plant effective June 26, 2026, the plant that makes Air cushioning components. Our tracker holds three Nike filings covering 948 jobs in 2026, across those three states.

The filings put numbers on what the announcements left vague. Nike reported about 73,000 employees worldwide at the end of May 2026, down from about 77,800 a year earlier and about 79,400 in 2024, a net drop of roughly 6,400 over two years that absorbs hiring and store changes along with the cuts. In February, management approved organizational changes expected to run about $300 million, primarily employee severance. Chief financial officer Matthew Friend told investors in March of a "$230 million charge we incurred this quarter due to employee-related severance costs, primarily in Supply Chain and Technology", and in June put the year at "nearly $400 million of severance charges made to reposition and create a healthier foundation for our business". The annual report settled it at $385 million, with $142 million paid in cash and $243 million still sitting in accrued liabilities at year end.

For anyone caught in the 2026 rounds, the useful reading is what the notices leave out. Neither Tennessee's memorandum nor Nike's letter to Missouri states a severance amount, a formula, or a benefit term, so nothing in the public record shows what any individual was offered. What the notices do carry is dates. Tennessee was notified on January 26 for an April 3 effective date, and Missouri's letter arrived on April 23 for a June 26 one, and those are intervals worth holding against your own paperwork and what you were actually paid. Our WARN filings tracker collects the same notices for every state, which is where to look if Nike files again in Oregon, Tennessee, Mississippi or Missouri.

Reporting on previous Nike layoff rounds

• April 2026 · About 1,400 Global Operations roles, most of them in technology, with technology work consolidating at the Beaverton campus and the Nike India Technology Center, and 172 jobs filed at the St. Charles Air plant effective June 26, 2026

• January 2026 · About 775 roles, primarily at distribution centers in Tennessee and Mississippi, including 583 across two Memphis facilities effective April 3, 2026, and 193 in Marshall County, Mississippi

• 2025 · Less than 1% of the corporate team in the September realignment around key sports, with 69 jobs filed at Beaverton

• 2024 · About 2% of the company, roughly 1,600 roles, including more than 700 at the Beaverton headquarters disclosed via Oregon WARN filings

  Reported as 60 days on payroll without working, plus severance. Severance amounts not published.

How Nike's layoffs compare to other companies

Nike hasn't itemized its packages publicly the way tech companies have. Reporting on the 2024 round described a 60-day paid notice period, and no per-person terms are on record for the 2026 rounds, whose filings came from Tennessee, Mississippi and Missouri.

What to do after being laid off from Nike

1. File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Nike's biggest hubs: Oregon, Tennessee, Missouri. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
2. Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Nike's hub states run: Oregon, Tennessee, Missouri, and every other state is here.
3. Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
4. Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
5. Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.