The highly Mo-tivated LinkedIn team stepped up big time for Movember 2012, ranking 61st amongst all teams, globally, in supporting this vital men’s health initiative. LinkedIn’s 332 registered Mo Bros and Mo Sistas, spanning 13 offices in 7 countries, rallied their friends, families, colleagues and professional networks behind a fundraising effort that topped USD$97,000, more than double last year’s tally.
I’ve lived in New York all my life. I’ve never experienced a storm as devastating as Hurricane Sandy. Despite the difficult aftermath, I’ve seen an incredible level of generosity and kindness that I’ve never seen before. I’m especially inspired by the efforts of my colleagues as they’ve taken the initiative to help those who were hit hardest by the storm. It is times like these that make me so proud to work for LinkedIn.
A few days after the storm, I sent an email to our New York office to encourage my colleagues to take some company time and volunteer to help those in need. I was fully supported by LinkedIn leaders, who were happy to see the NYC team remove themselves from emails and computers for the day to help their neighbors. Soon after, the stories came pouring in from employees who were helping out all over New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Below are just a few highlights:
Transformation is one of LinkedIn’s key cultural values. This does not just refer to how we are creating economic opportunity for professionals worldwide, but also how we develop our own employees and help them become better professionals. LinkedIn’s Rotate[In] programme is a pilot initiative currently running in Dublin, Ireland that aims to do just that. Similar to The Great LinkedIn Job Swap, this programme involved some of our employees swapping roles, departments and desks to gain invaluable and in-depth experience of the organisations that are driving our business. A brainchild of the Dublin leadership team, this eight month rotation programme began in March this year and has already been a huge success, providing the three chosen pilot participants with a whirlwind experience of education and career development. They’re now six months in, and here are some highlights from each of them.
Editor’s Note: This summer, two LinkedIn employees came up with a wild idea – to swap jobs, homes, and cars for a month, bringing their families along for the ride. Rich Wong, Senior Director of Finance, is based in Mountain View, California and Sharon McCooey, International Finance Director, is based in Dublin, Ireland. Rather than dismissing the idea, our management team encouraged them to go for it. Below is a he-said, she-said account of their adventures.
Rich: I love working at LinkedIn and here’s why. Crazy ideas aren’t so crazy. People are encouraged to come up with new out-of-the-box ideas and managers tend to support these new ideas. A perfect example of this was when Sharon approached me about doing a job swap – including swapping cars and houses too! At one point, I was worried and joked with her about wanting to swap families too (like the TV show “Wife Swap”).
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of blog posts by LinkedIn’s amazing summer interns. Today, we hear from Lucy Zang who is working toward her MBA at Harvard Business School.
This is not my first job, but I certainly felt like a newbie on my first day at LinkedIn. Everything was brand new to me, from carrying my new LinkedIn backpack to catching the work shuttle to walking around a beautiful campus surrounded by people who seemed truly proud and happy to work here. I thought to myself, “Is this a mirage?” because I came from an industry where a good number of people worked long hours and disliked their jobs. I was excited for the summer, and happy to be a part of LinkedIn’s first official season of the MBA Internship Program. Coming to work in jeans and a t-shirt everyday made me even more grateful.
