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LinkedIn laying off more than 660 workers
The Hill ^ | 10/16/2023 | JULIA SHAPERO

Posted on 10/16/2023 10:42:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

LinkedIn is laying off more than 660 workers across its engineering, product, talent and finance teams, the employment-focused social media site announced Monday.

“Talent changes are a difficult, but necessary and regular part of managing our business,” the company said in a news release.

This marks LinkedIn’s second round of major layoffs this year, after it announced its plans to cut more than 700 jobs in May amid efforts to make “changes to our Global Business Organization (GBO) and our China strategy.”

In a Monday email to employees, which was obtained by Insider, LinkedIn executives said the latest round of layoffs reflected a need to “evolve how we work and what we prioritize so we can deliver of the key initiatives we’ve identified.”

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More bidenDUHomincs. I don't have a Linkedin
1 posted on 10/16/2023 10:42:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like we say in hockey, “Who Cares.”


2 posted on 10/16/2023 10:43:32 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (So, when are all these damn "refugees" scheduled to go the hell home? Asking for a friend.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Got to use this twice.


I've heard linkedin is very left politically.
3 posted on 10/16/2023 10:45:19 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LinkedIn became Unlinked?


4 posted on 10/16/2023 10:49:07 AM PDT by politicket
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To: ChicagoConservative27

.......LinkedIn ........ announced its plans to cut more than 700 jobs in May amid efforts to make “changes to our..... China strategy.”.....

Almost every day I have to clear out Chinese interlopers whom I don’t know who are trying to connect with me!!!!

Stop the Chinese communist invasion!!!!


5 posted on 10/16/2023 10:49:55 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Learn to code.


6 posted on 10/16/2023 10:53:06 AM PDT by samadams2000
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee, what a shame


7 posted on 10/16/2023 10:54:13 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I used Linkedin for five minutes after watching the grand opening in 2003. Boring then and boring now. It’s just a place for narcissists to brag how great they are.


8 posted on 10/16/2023 10:56:27 AM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

666 ?

More than 660.


9 posted on 10/16/2023 10:57:21 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As long as they have fired their HNB, and then getting rid of overseas employees first.


10 posted on 10/16/2023 11:00:13 AM PDT by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’ve been LinkedOff. Maybe they can learn to code?


11 posted on 10/16/2023 11:01:04 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
IMG-6786

12 posted on 10/16/2023 11:04:19 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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[LinkedIn laying off more than 660 workers]

Search for your next job with LinkedIn -

Sincerely, LinkedIn

Now....get out!


13 posted on 10/16/2023 11:04:33 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: z3n
Its users are mostly government employees, contractors, corporate managers, and academics, so yeah, it's mostly left-wing in its slant, It started out as a job-finding and networking site but grew into a monster. It's also a haven for hackers. fraudsters, and spammers.

About a decade ago, a former employer forced us to keep accounts there for marketing and sales, and my email was promptly stolen and used to spoof all of Germany. Created a heckuva mess that I still have to deal with, and all I got was a lousy 1-year credit monitoring service for free.

14 posted on 10/16/2023 11:08:34 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I got ‘furloughed’ in 2010, which was actually a permanent layoff. It wasn’t fun, so on that level, I feel sorry for people in general who lose their employment.

HOWEVER, for some of these companies (Leftist, woke, whatever you call them) that have been practicing ‘cancel culture’ (and LinkedIn certainly has), I am having a really hard time dredging up much sympathy because I know how badly they have hurt good people whose ‘difference of opinion’ they just could not tolerate.


15 posted on 10/16/2023 11:12:29 AM PDT by Qiviut (To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe the truth (Voltaire) $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I dumped that PC piece of crap years ago.


16 posted on 10/16/2023 11:24:08 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I found LinkedIn useful until Microsoft bought it. I stayed off during my last layoff. The main drawback was Indian recruiters being puzzled as to why I disn’t have a LinkedIn account. The whole privacy thing never gets near their radar.


17 posted on 10/16/2023 11:24:28 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Such a shame. /s


18 posted on 10/16/2023 11:30:18 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Muslims in America must immediately return to their nations of origin to fight Islamic extremism.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Linked In is woke and that’s why they, like Budweiser, are being “forced” to lay people off.

I cancelled my longtime membership two weeks ago. I refuse to associate myself directly or indirectly with WOKENESS.


19 posted on 10/16/2023 11:39:01 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Reno89519
"As long as they have fired their HNB . . ."

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What is an "HNB?"

20 posted on 10/16/2023 11:39:20 AM PDT by Neanderthal ("Knowledge is good" - Emil Faber)
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