LinkedIn gives all employees a vacation

Like many other companies, LinkedIn sends its almost 16,000 employees to the home office with the start of the corona pandemic. Almost a year later, many are exhausted. To prevent burnout, the career network grants everyone a week of vacation - at the same time.

The career network LinkedIn sends its workforce on vacation for a week. As the US company reports, almost all of the 15,900 full-time employees will have a week off from next Monday to recover after more than a year in the Corona home office and to prevent burnout. Only a small team is supposed to keep the company running and then take a break later. "There's something magical about the whole company taking a break at the same time," said the company, based in Sunnyvale, California, when asked. The best part is not to find a flood of unanswered internal emails when you return to work. LinkedIn and many other US technology companies sent their employees to the home office shortly after the start of the corona pandemic. LinkedIn does not expect its employees back in the offices until September. However, they should still be able to do half of their working hours in the home office. Twitter has already given its employees the option of working from home permanently. With over 740 million users, LinkedIn claims to be the largest career network in the world and a competitor to the German Xing service. Since 2016, it has belonged to the Microsoft group, which bought it for a good 25 billion US dollars in order to enter the competitive online networks market with the takeover. LinkedIn has 206 million users across Europe, 16 million of them from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the US, 165 million people use the network.