Nike CEO John Donahoe told employees in an email late Thursday that the company will lay off 2% of its workforce, a figure that suggests the company could eliminate more than 1,500 jobs.
The sportswear giant had 83,700 employees as of May 31. The layoffs will not impact the company’s stores, distribution centers, or U.S. manufacturing facilities where it makes the Air insoles that go in shoes, according to Donahoe’s email. That means the layoffs could have an outsized impact at the company’s roughly 400-acre headquarters campus near Beaverton, where it employed 11,400 last spring.