LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Rewards 3,500 Employees with iPad Minis

vartanarsen said:

my thoughts exactly) isn't everything on that site self-service (you post you own resume/employers post their own openings)...why 3500 employees?

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I will venture a guess that a significant portion of those people work in sales.

coolspot18 said:

When the iPad 1 was first released, my Boss rewarded the whole company with them as well.

It's been done before.

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Likewise, our company bought each of us an iPad 3. Admittedly, it might be easier given there's only about 25 of us.

slu said:

May I ask what you use it for? I am on there myself, but have found it to be of little value. It seems like an online resume for most people to me.

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I found my current job because of LinkedIn. I received a status update that a friend of mine had changed jobs. I called him up to see what was going on. We met and discussed the company and what I could do for them and eventually got the job. Was so happy to leave my previous job.

Ryth said:

They aren't paying full price for an order of that size.

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Probably not. But say they are getting 20% off. That's still $136 difference per unit on the 32GB models. Taken out over their work force that's still $476k.

doubleaa said:

Memberships and advertising. A lot of people use that site, myself included.

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Unemployed people pay monthly or annual membership fees in order to secure a job. I find that a tad, ironic.

That's a +1 MIO $ publicity stunt... Interesting as it got quite covered by the press. Meh, when I offer a day off to performing employees, nobody talks about it.

3,500 employees? Someone is floating....

Chaos123x said:

Wow that's really cool to treat your employees well. I haven't had a raise from my company in 8 years let alone a present or a party.

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You're lucky. I was made redundant last year. They then promptly readvertised my job (Clue: that's illegal) while trying to butter me up by inviting me to reapply. Guess what - the person they hired after me quit after 2 months on the job. Now they're looking for replacement number 3 while I'm happily doing my own thing and getting some recognition for it.

3,501. Got an offer from LinkedIn today. A day late and a dollar short. Oh well.