Nike is expanding its daycare program and its employees are furious

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The Nike Child Development Program is one of the biggest perks at a company whose employees enjoy plenty. They are not happy with proposed changes.

Outside Portland, Oregon, Nike's corporate headquarters is a mecca of work-life balance. There are wooded trails, ponds and grassy knolls, with company-branded bikes employees are free to pedal from A to B.

Employees don't want the centre to move off campus, according to emails sent to Chief Executive Officer Mark Parker and other senior leaders at the company and reviewed by Bloomberg. They're skeptical about Endeavor, a for-profit national network of daycare centres and schools owned by Leeds Equity Partners, a New York-based private equity firm.

Nike says it's responding to employees who have over the years asked the company to accommodate more kids and families. In the weeks since the company announced the change, the waiting list has grown by 250 names. Some employees said, the change is emblematic of Nike's failure to adjust a corporate culture that at best ignores the professional stress faced by women in particular. Last year the company ousted a number of senior executives after an investigation related to sexual misconduct, but it is still facing a gender discrimination suit.

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