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One Friday a month, every employee is given time to reflect and work on passion projects outside of their day to day duties. We call this InDay.

The Business Operations team at LinkedIn takes our InDays seriously. Every month, someone on our team volunteers to organize an event aligned with the month’s theme. I’ve spent more than a year of InDays getting to know my teammates better through social events, volunteer activities, professional development opportunities and more.

It all started as a joke. The six of us – all interns from the University of Waterloo – were brainstorming ideas for our first hackday at LinkedIn. While we were commenting on our lunch from that day, we thought “Why not build an app to rate our lunches?”. We had the perfect name already picked out: EatIn. Our hack went on to win the “Best Internal Tool” award – a win at our first hackday!

Each month, we invite luminaries from around the world to the LinkedIn campus to share their insights with LinkedIn employees.

Last week, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, and Gina Bianchini, Founder & CEO of Mightybell and Co-Founder of Lean In, joined me for a fireside chat. I have known Sheryl and Gina for years and admire them both personally and professionally. The book is a gift and I recommend reading the whole thing.

As college basketball fans across the nation focused on honing their brackets, LinkedIn created its own version of March Madness for students in New York.

This month, employees in NYC spent a day mentoring college students in the area. It was all part of InDay, a monthly program where LinkedIn employees take a day away from their normal jobs to focus on something meaningful to them. This month’s theme was Mentor[in], which brought us to local colleges in the area.