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If you go to the "Lists of Employees Laid Off" there's a link to a Google spreadsheet. It seems to be gleaned/scraped from LinkedIn, so I guess if you keep you

If you go to the "Lists of Employees Laid Off" there's a link to a Google spreadsheet. It seems to be gleaned/scraped from LinkedIn, so I guess if you keep your profile up to date you will show up in this list...

mkmk 3y ago
Typically these lists are created by one of the laid off employees or the HR team that laid them off, and are opt-in. They are circulated to help those who were laid off find new jobs.
syndicatedjelly 3y ago
That’s not cool at all
- ssnistfajen 3y ago
  Why? LinkedIn is public info. These people willingly posted on LinkedIn about changes in their job statuses. The amount of details contained in these spreadsheets (previous job title, YoE, location, work preferences, contact info, etc.) are pretty clearly meant to match with potential employers
  - syndicatedjelly 3y ago
    It’s one thing to share with LinkedIn a job change, it’s another for someone else to scrape that info and post it to a different website without their consent. Like if someone scraped images of their friends from Facebook and posted it to a different site with some commentary
    - ssnistfajen 3y ago
      LinkedIn is public info. Anyone who posts publicly viewable info on the Internet has accepted the fact that it will circulate beyond their intended audience. If you are so against "scraping" or whatever arbitrary definition you came up with, don't post here either. And how do you know these people didn't consent to having their info aggregated on that site? It's an additional way of outreach to employers who are most likely to be sensible if they are looking at that site. The vast majority of layoffs over this past year and half have nothing to do with employees' personal performance. It's not that embarrassing to share. >Like if someone scraped images of their friends from Facebook and posted it to a different site with some commentary This already happens and has happened for as long as FB's existence as a major website. In fact, a major web page indexing platform whose brand name starts with a G and ends with an E "scrapes" pictures from FB all the time. Why don't you take the issue to them?

mkmk 3y ago

Typically these lists are created by one of the laid off employees or the HR team that laid them off, and are opt-in. They are circulated to help those who were laid off find new jobs.

syndicatedjelly 3y ago

That’s not cool at all

ssnistfajen 3y ago
Why? LinkedIn is public info. These people willingly posted on LinkedIn about changes in their job statuses. The amount of details contained in these spreadsheets (previous job title, YoE, location, work preferences, contact info, etc.) are pretty clearly meant to match with potential employers
- syndicatedjelly 3y ago
  It’s one thing to share with LinkedIn a job change, it’s another for someone else to scrape that info and post it to a different website without their consent. Like if someone scraped images of their friends from Facebook and posted it to a different site with some commentary
  - ssnistfajen 3y ago
    LinkedIn is public info. Anyone who posts publicly viewable info on the Internet has accepted the fact that it will circulate beyond their intended audience. If you are so against "scraping" or whatever arbitrary definition you came up with, don't post here either. And how do you know these people didn't consent to having their info aggregated on that site? It's an additional way of outreach to employers who are most likely to be sensible if they are looking at that site. The vast majority of layoffs over this past year and half have nothing to do with employees' personal performance. It's not that embarrassing to share. >Like if someone scraped images of their friends from Facebook and posted it to a different site with some commentary This already happens and has happened for as long as FB's existence as a major website. In fact, a major web page indexing platform whose brand name starts with a G and ends with an E "scrapes" pictures from FB all the time. Why don't you take the issue to them?