LinkedIn Unemployment Collected

The job market is brutal. Mass layoffs. AI screening job applications. AI writing applications. AI writing email rejections. I’ve been fortunate enough to survive 3 rounds of mass layoffs at different companies, but they were always painful. I’m grateful to be in a position where our team currently has work aggressively knocks on wood, but I know that can change in an instant.

This got me thinking about platforms like LinkedIn. What if there were a way for people to see how much unemployment they’ve collected since they were laid off (or if they joined LinkedIn without a job)? I can imagine this would be a painful number for many people. However, this could be a dark way for some people to motivate themselves.

Given the privacy considerations, shame, and general unhelpfulness associated with a feature like this, I doubt we ever see something like this go live. However, it would make for a few very interesting days on LinkedIn if this did get shipped.

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