{"id":257239,"date":"2026-04-24T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=257239"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:23:29","slug":"nike-to-axe-about-1400-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/257239\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike to axe about 1,400 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nike said on Thursday it is laying off about 1,400 people to streamline workflows, as the struggling sportswear company fights through a years-long sales slump, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

In a memo to employees on Thursday, ‌Chief Operating Officer Venkatesh Alagirisamy said Nike would cut jobs in global operations – mainly technology – in North America, Asia and Europe, accounting for a little less than 2% of the global workforce.<\/p>\n

It is the latest in a string of job cuts at Nike, most recently the axing in January of 775 roles in a bid to speed up automation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nike said on Thursday it is laying off about 1,400 people to streamline workflows, as the struggling sportswear company fights through a years-long sales slump, Reuters writes. In a memo to employees on Thursday, ‌Chief Operating Officer Venkatesh Alagirisamy said Nike would cut jobs in global operations – mainly technology – in North America, Asia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":257194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257240,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257239\/revisions\/257240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}