TL;DR

Layoff-tracking aggregators are reporting Nike cut roughly 1,400 roles this week, with the majority in technology roles across its global operations — hedge word intentional, since this is aggregated tracker reporting, not a Nike press release we've independently verified. If you're one of the people affected, the detail that matters more than the exact headcount is this: your corporate login can be cut within hours, not weeks. Workday, your equity/RSU portal, benefits enrollment, your payslip archive, the internal directory — all of it sits behind SSO, and SSO gets revoked fast once a reduction is underway. Convert: Web to PDF runs entirely on your machine, using the session you're already logged into, so it can save those pages as real, selectable-text PDFs while you still have access. Two rules before you start: where there's an official PDF download, get that one instead — it's the authoritative record. And save your own records only. This is the ten-minute job you do today, not the one you plan to do "this weekend."

What we know about the Nike cuts this week

Some honesty up front, because it changes how you should read the rest of this post.

The reporting this week — the week of July 20, 2026 — comes from layoff-tracking aggregators, the sites that compile WARN filings, news reports, and employee disclosures into running counts. They're putting the number at around 1,400 roles, with the majority concentrated in technology positions and the cuts spread across Nike's global operations, not confined to one office or one country. We're stating that as "reportedly," on purpose. We haven't seen an official Nike press release with a confirmed number, and tracker aggregation is exactly that — aggregation. It's a real signal, not a certified count. If Nike issues an official statement with different figures, believe that instead.

What doesn't require any hedging: if you're reading this because you were one of the roles affected, the exact number doesn't change what you need to do in the next hour. Whether the final tally lands at 1,400 or somewhere else, the mechanics of losing corporate access are the same for everyone caught in a reduction — and they move faster than most people expect.

Why "technology roles" is worth noticing

If the majority of the cuts are in technology — which is the pattern the tracker reporting points to — that has one practical implication worth naming: technology employees tend to have more systems tied to their identity, not fewer. Engineering wikis, internal tooling dashboards, design and product documentation, code review history, on-call and incident records. None of that is glamorous to lose, but a lot of it is the raw material for "here's what I actually built," which is exactly what you'll be asked to describe in your next interview. It's worth a specific pass through your team's internal tools, not just the standard HR stack.

Why the clock is on your SSO session, not your last day

The instinct after a layoff is to treat paperwork as something you'll get to later — after the shock wears off, after you've talked to a lawyer, after you've updated LinkedIn. That instinct is backwards here.

The documents aren't at risk. Your ability to reach them is.

Identity and access teams don't wait for your last day to deprovision an account. In most reductions, SSO tokens get revoked, MFA enrollments get pulled, and the tile that opened your HR portal this morning returns a login wall by the afternoon — sometimes during the notification meeting itself. People find this out at the worst possible time: filing an unemployment claim three weeks later, or realizing there's a post-termination stock option window and no way to check when it closes.

So the order of operations is: capture first, sort it out later. A messy folder of PDFs saved today is worth more than a perfectly organized folder you never got to build because the portal logged you out first.

This isn't specific to Nike, and it isn't specific to tech roles. It's how corporate identity systems work everywhere, which is exactly why we've written the general version of this at saving webpages behind logins as PDF and the fuller layoff playbook at saving your Workday, equity, and benefits pages before access is revoked. This post is the Nike-specific, do-it-now version.

Why a server-based PDF tool can't help here

It's worth understanding why the usual "just convert the page to PDF online" advice doesn't apply. Any tool that fetches a URL from its own server — rather than running inside your browser — is not logged into your Nike account. It never will be. Point it at your benefits enrollment page and it gets a login screen, same as anyone else on the public internet would. There's no clever setting that fixes this, because the problem isn't a missing feature — it's architectural. The only thing that can render a page you're authenticated into is something running inside the browser session that's already authenticated. That's the entire reason a local extension is the right category of tool here, not a nice-to-have.

Convert: Web to PDF works this way by design: it uses Chrome's DevTools Protocol to capture the page exactly as your browser renders it — your session, your data, nothing sent anywhere. More on why that architecture matters generally at why a PDF converter shouldn't upload your files.

The save-these-today list

Grouped roughly by how expensive it is to lose each one.

Time-sensitive money

  • Severance summary. The terms, the payment schedule, and — if there's a release agreement — the review and signing deadline. That date is load-bearing; don't rely on remembering it.
  • Equity / RSU vesting schedule. Nike is publicly traded, so if you held equity, the vesting detail matters: what's vested, what's unvested, grant dates, and the post-termination exercise window if you hold options. These windows are frequently short and unforgiving — there's no appeal for "I lost the page before I could check."
  • Pay stubs and YTD summary. You'll want these for unemployment filing, loan applications, and any negotiation where past compensation comes up.
  • PTO balance. Some states require payout. Get the number in writing, dated, from before your access ends — not from memory afterward.

Benefits and coverage

  • Benefits elections. Plan names, tiers, dependents, contribution amounts — whatever you actually had, not what you think you signed up for.
  • COBRA information. Cost, election deadline, coverage start date. This is a decision on a clock, and you want a real document in front of you, not a guess.
  • HSA / FSA balances, plus any deadline to spend down FSA funds before they're forfeited.
  • 401(k) summary — balance, vesting status, and rollover instructions.

Your professional record

  • Performance reviews. Ratings, manager comments, your self-assessments. These are the raw material for interview answers, and they disappear with the account.
  • Org chart and role history. Titles, dates, reporting lines, team size. This is what turns "worked on retail systems" into "owned the checkout platform for a nine-person team."
  • Internal recognition — nominations, peer kudos, anything you'd cite later as evidence of impact.
  • Internal directory entry / recommendations. If your company's internal directory or intranet carries peer endorsements or project credits that don't live on LinkedIn, grab those too — they don't survive account deactivation and LinkedIn doesn't have a copy.

The line we won't blur

Save your own records: your comp, your benefits, your employment history, your reviews, your recognition. That's the whole list.

Do not take anything you're not entitled to — not product roadmaps, not internal sourcing or supplier data, not proprietary design files, not source code, regardless of whether you personally touched it. If you're unsure whether something is yours to keep, check what you signed, and if it's still unclear, don't take it. This is about preserving access to documents about you. It is not a smash-and-grab, and a layoff doesn't void the agreements you signed on the way in.

Doing it right: the mechanics that matter

A useful PDF and a useless one are usually separated by about five settings.

1. Confirm you're logged in before converting

Open the page, confirm you're seeing your actual data, then convert. If the session quietly timed out, you'll get a beautifully rendered PDF of a login screen instead of your vesting table.

2. Scroll before you capture

Convert: Web to PDF captures what's already rendered on the page — it doesn't scroll for you. HR and benefits portals commonly lazy-load table rows and chart data as they enter view, so a PTO or vesting table might show four rows on screen and forty that haven't loaded yet. Scroll to the bottom and expand every collapsed section first, then convert.

3. Load All Images for charts and dashboards

Benefits summaries and equity dashboards often render as charts, not text. Load All Images forces lazy-loaded visuals to finish loading before capture — without it, you get a grid of blank boxes where your vesting chart should be.

4. Remove Elements to cut the navigation chrome

Corporate portals are mostly navigation — global headers, sidebars, cookie banners, floating chat widgets. Remove Elements lets you click and delete any of it before export, with undo, so what's left is the table or content you actually need.

5. Capture Element for a single table

If all you need is the vesting schedule or the PTO widget, don't export the whole dashboard. Capture Element grabs just that region — cleaner output, nothing to crop later.

6. Single Page Mode so tables don't tear across a page break

This is the setting people don't know they need until a table splits mid-row, orphaning the header on one page and the data on the next. Single Page Mode keeps the whole capture as one continuous page — pair it with landscape orientation and a scale reduction for wide tables.

7. Article Mode — for prose, not for tables

Article Mode runs the Readability algorithm to strip a page down to its main content. It's excellent for a policy document, a severance FAQ, or a benefits explainer written as running text. Skip it for anything with a table, chart, or code block — Readability is built to isolate articles, and it will decide your vesting table is page clutter and drop it. Prose: Article Mode. Data: default mode.

8. Save to a device that isn't going back to Nike

Not the company laptop you're returning. Not corporate cloud storage. A personal machine, personal cloud account, or a USB drive — otherwise the whole exercise is pointless.

The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+P. Paper sizes run A3 through Letter, Legal, Tabloid, and Ledger, with orientation, margins, and scale all adjustable per conversion. It works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, and Vivaldi — not Firefox or Safari.

Where our PDF is the wrong tool

We'd rather tell you this directly than let you find out the hard way.

If Nike or a benefits provider offers an official PDF download, get that one instead. Not a screenshot of the page. Not our render of it. The actual file, generated by the system of record.

That includes:

  • Official pay statements — most payroll systems generate a real PDF payslip on request or by default. That's the authoritative copy.
  • Plan documents — the Summary Plan Description and the underlying benefits plan PDF.
  • Benefits confirmation statements — most enrollment portals emit a confirmation PDF the moment you elect.
  • Official equity statements — third-party equity administrators (Carta, Shareworks, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and similar) typically issue their own statements, and that login often outlives your employment.
  • Your severance agreement — a legal document sent as a document. Save that file, not a capture of it.

What our extension is genuinely good for is everything without an official export: the vesting dashboard that only exists as a live web view, the PTO balance widget, the internal org chart, the performance review page, the recognition wall. That's a lot of real estate with no "Download PDF" button anywhere on it — grab both types where they exist, and don't substitute one for the other.

After the capture

Once the PDFs are saved somewhere safe, a few of them become working documents immediately.

The exercise window goes on a calendar today, with a reminder well before it closes. This is the single highest-regret item on the whole list if you skip it.

The reviews become interview material. You're heading into a job search that will ask for specifics, and your performance reviews already have the language, the scope, and the metrics your manager used to describe your work — mine them before you write a single resume bullet.

The org chart becomes your reference list. Six months out, you won't remember your skip-level's exact title or your team's headcount. Today you can just look it up.

If you're also pulling together older work samples, screenshots, or notes into a portfolio, Convert: Anything to PDF merges mixed file types into a single PDF in the order you list them — useful once the HR captures are done and you're building the job-search side of things. And if you're applying broadly, saving job listings as PDF before they get taken down covers the other half of the equation: postings disappear the moment a role is filled, and a saved copy is the only record of what you actually applied to.

Frequently asked questions

Has Nike confirmed the ~1,400 number officially?

Not that we've independently verified. The figure comes from layoff-tracking aggregators that compile WARN filings, news coverage, and employee reports — treat it as a tracker estimate, not an official company statement. If Nike releases its own figures, defer to those.

I wasn't affected, but I'm worried I might be next. Should I do this now?

Yes, honestly. There's no rule that says you can only save your own HR pages during an active layoff. If your company runs on the same kind of SSO-gated portals most large employers do, saving your equity, benefits, and review pages costs ten minutes any ordinary Tuesday and only matters the one day you need it.

Can I still do this if my badge and login already stopped working?

Not with an extension — Convert: Web to PDF uses your live, authenticated browser session, and there's nothing to capture once that session is dead. From here, go straight to HR for payroll and benefits records; many employers are required to provide them on request. If you held equity, check the third-party administrator (Carta, Shareworks, E*TRADE, Fidelity, or similar) separately — that login is often independent of your Nike account and frequently still works after employment ends.

Does this work on Nike's internal tools specifically, or just HR systems?

Any page you can view in your logged-in browser tab, whether that's an HR portal, an internal engineering wiki, a design system doc, or a project dashboard. The extension has no special integration with Nike's systems and needs none — it captures whatever your browser can already render.

Will the numbers and text in the PDF be selectable, or is it a screenshot?

Selectable. Convert: Web to PDF uses Chrome's own print engine, so the output is a real PDF with copyable text and working links — not a flattened image. That matters when you're transcribing an account number or a vesting date into a form later and don't want to retype it by hand.

Is it safe to run this on pages with my salary or equity data on them?

That's the case it's built for. Conversion runs 100% locally, with zero network requests while converting. The one thing that does leave your machine, unrelated to any specific page: a single anonymous ping after a successful conversion, carrying a random install token — no URL, no page content, no IP address. We don't know what you converted, by design.

My benefits table keeps breaking across two PDF pages. How do I fix that?

Turn on Single Page Mode, switch to landscape, and reduce scale if the table is still wide. That combination keeps the header row attached to its data instead of orphaned on the next page. And make sure you scrolled the full table into view first — no page setting recovers rows that never loaded.

Bottom line

The exact headcount behind this week's Nike cuts is still tracker-reported, not officially confirmed — call it reportedly around 1,400 roles, majority in technology, across global operations, and hold that loosely. What isn't loose is the timeline on your own access: corporate SSO can be cut within hours of a notification, and every system that matters — Workday, your equity portal, benefits enrollment, payslips, the internal directory — sits behind that same login.

Grab the official PDF wherever one exists — pay statements, plan documents, benefits confirmations, your severance agreement. For everything else that only lives as a page behind your login, use Convert: Web to PDF: log in, scroll to the bottom, Load All Images, Remove Elements for the chrome, Capture Element for the one table you actually need, Single Page Mode so it doesn't tear, and skip Article Mode on anything with numbers in a grid. Save it somewhere that isn't the laptop you're handing back.

Ten minutes. Your own records, nothing more. Do it before the tile disappears.