Laid off from Nike.

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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 accounted for about 740 of them by June 28, disclosed through Oregon WARN filings. The 2026 technology cuts came in the final stretch of what Nike called its Win Now action plan, with technology work consolidated into two named hubs.

The package specifics have stayed unpublished for every round in the record we track, 2024 included. What the filings carry for 2024 is a company-wide total. Nike's fiscal 2026 annual report records $443 million of restructuring charges in fiscal 2024, when management streamlined the organization and the global workforce shrank on net, with $123 million paid in cash that year and $247 million the next. Those are company-wide figures, and they can't show what any one person received.

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 the announcement doesn't show where those 1,400 roles sat. Oregon's filings disclosed the 2024 headquarters cuts, while the three 2026 filings our tracker holds came from Tennessee, Mississippi and Missouri.

Two 2026 rounds produced WARN filings, and none of those filings 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 of severance and other employee costs 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 neither notice 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.

If you work at Nike, the October 2026 note's lines about process are the ones that bear on you. Elliott Hill wrote that affected teammates would hear directly from their leaders, with clear timelines and support, as decisions are made, and he called anything in media reports about impacts speculative, so by Nike's account the first word of a Pace cut comes from a leader. Where local consultation is required, he wrote, Nike won't finalize proposals until that process is complete. If your role sits somewhere with that kind of requirement, a proposal you hear about before consultation ends isn't final by Nike's own account.

Reporting on previous Nike layoff rounds

• October 2026 · Fewer roles across Nike under Pace, with decisions about affected roles starting in calendar 2027, and about $1.0 billion of expected charges through fiscal 2031, mostly employee severance and other employee-related costs

• 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. Separately, Missouri's notice covered 172 jobs at the St. Charles Air plant, effective June 26, 2026, and the April note doesn't say whether those jobs count toward the 1,400

• Quarter ended February 2026, Converse · Operating costs right-sized at Converse, counted inside that quarter's $230 million charge for employee-related severance costs

• 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

• September 2025 · 69 jobs in an Oregon filing at Beaverton, in our tracker

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

How Nike's layoffs compare to other companies

No per-person package terms are on record for any Nike round in the filings, notices and reporting we track, from the 2024 reduction to 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, Mississippi. 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, Mississippi, 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.