To think you don’t block new colleagues on LinkedIn?

Serious question. Why do you care?

I just think the level of entitlement of the OP is bizarre.

She wants to see a linkedin page of a man that works in her global company. He works in a different country to her.

And she is annoyed that she can't.

Very precious and odd behaviour.

I wouldn't care at all if I couldn't see my colleagues linkedins

Haha.

Half the people I work with are blocked on my profile.

It's a bit strange. Linked In is a particular type of social media for business/professional connections. It's not usual to have much or any non work related content on there and some profiles are extremely brief.
I'm at a law firm and we are required to keep a Linked in account and have to follow guidance about the photo used (must be professional one) and the house style of the profile etc. Any substantive content we post has to be sense checked by our professional support team to make sure we dont drop any clangers. We are also strongly encouraged to connect with colleagues and promote/repost their content. I imagine a very dim view would be taken of blocking colleagues!

I get what people are saying about it being his personal social media and he's entitled to connect with or block who he wants but it's a bit strange as its meant to be a "tool of the trade" and will reflect on the employer. Seems a bit narky and precious. If he visited your office would he wear a bag on his head and refuse to speak to you?

I agree! I don't work in an industry that uses LinkedIn much, but I can't imagine ever feeling comfortable having so much info about myself and my work history publicly available. My view may be a bit coloured as I have been low level stalked in the past so keep a low profile on the internet anyway.

OP honestly, it sounds like you are spending way too much headspace on this - you will meet him eventually in person, isn't that more important than knowing the ins and outs of his work history?

From talking to some of my friends who work in that world, I actually thought that linkedin was starting to be seen as very old fashioned

How do you define "a lot " of companies though?

I work in a very big finance company.

We don't use LinkedIn at all at work.

Most of my colleagues aren't on linkedin at all.

But a lot of companies now do use LinkedIn and even expect their employees to be connected and to like and comment on their colleagues' post as it can be a very powerful way of business development/PR.

In fact schools now actively encourage their sixth formers in joining LI and also after uni.

It's very odd behaviour.

Like someone said on here, one possibility is if the two of you who are blocked have someone else in common who may know that the new hire has not been truthful on their LinkedIn CV.

Linkedin may be more work-focused but it's still a personal account. The guy can block whoever he likes.

And not forgetting linkedin is literally a shitshow of the very worst order.

I always personally thought that linkedin was one of the worst social media sites .

I work in finance. I work closely with our fraud team.

I know it's very important to not put any identifiable information about ourselves on the Internet. You don't want scammers to target you.

People will put strict privacy controls on Facebook, twitter and Instagram so you can only see their name.

Yet on linkedin - they put their current workplace and all their previous workplaces.
They put so much information publicly on linkedin.

It's so dangerous.

What if you have a stalker?

Now he knows where you work

People are also allowed to put privacy controls on their linkedin.

But even if your company uses linkedin, surely you wouldn't think that you are entitles to see every employees linkedin page?

OP works in a global company. This man is not even in the same country as her. He is in the USA!

I work in a big company.

I wouldn't expect to see Joe Alan in our London offices linkedinpage when I'm in birmingham.

I only permit known people have access to my LI. If I am working with a team or taking part in interviews I ask for the name and give access.

It called being protective of your privacy and helps me avoid nosey parkers.

I think you'll be left wondering. If the mutual contact is a nightmare, there may well be a settlement agreement in place preventing your new colleague from speaking his truth. If that's the case, poor bloke. He's probably really anxious knowing that he's started a new job where there are people who know (and possibly like and support) someone who screwed him over.

PS Some of the other posts are clearly from people who have never had to use LinkedIn for work. I can loosely guess at what you do, and it's perfectly normal for people in that line of work to be required to do stuff on LinkedIn. It's a weird type of social media as it's sort of personal, mostly work related and some employers can try to impose unfair restrictions on your account when you leave. Opting out of LinkedIn simply isn't possible in some careers!

Exactly

You are not entitled to see anyone elses Lknkedin.

Linkedin is not designed by your company.

It is its own separate social media and networking website.

Under GDPR rules, anyone can block whoever they want on linkedin.
They can set their profile as private as they want

To be fair to OP, it sounds like they have to do this as part of their job but I still find it weird that he's gone through 3000 employees and then randomly blocked a few

Because he has connected via work at another place?

And of course we don't work because we don't use LinkedIn 🙄

Funnily enough not every industry relies on LinkedIn.

OP you sound totally bizarre.

Even if linkedin is part of your job, it's such a small thing.

In my company no one cares in the slightest about each others linkedins.

The way you're acting is so weird.

Youre not entitled to see anyone's linkedin.

And also why On earth would you care to that extent about some ones linkedin.

What if I said to you:

"I can't see a new hires linked in. He's in a different country to me.Ive never met him I'm absolutely raging. I got my colleague to check his linkedin. Then I got my husband to check his linkedin"

Do you see how crazy that sounds?

It could be because they wanted too or could be sick of people coming up with wears conspiracy theories about it so think if the black people if gives something for people to wonder about

We would also routinely use our LI to ‘like’ each other’s posts about the company to spread the reach, in fact that is requested of us. This sounds like a nightmare. Why is 'social media intern facilitator' part of ALL your jobs? Why are you all also in the marketing department as well as your other roles?

All the colleagues that have sent messages have been blocked. No reason for them to be doing that.

I'm only going to talk to them about work, when I'm in work.

I think it's the OP that's being weird.

First of all linkedin is not that important, its social media. Who cares about it that much

I work in finance and I don't use LinkedIn at all, and neither do a lot of my colleagues.

The ones that do use it, tend do just put their current role. They put very few details of their employment history on it.

Who would want their whole employment history out in Public for everyone to see.

No one is forced to use linkedin.

You are also not entitled to view anyone else's linkedin, why on earth do you think that you are.

Also the level of depth that you went to try see his linkedin, is so strange.

Why do you care so much.

You went looking through your husbands account, you were getting another colleague to look at his linkedin account, it is so weird! What's wrong with you