The COVID-19 era brought forward times of economic disparity and quantifiable difficulties for businesses of all scales. While only a very few giant businesses like Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook and Amazon were taking stead and progressing in these times. The rest of the businesses were taking a toll. In order to efficiently save their businesses in these uncertain times, most of the owners took to cutting on additional cost, unimportant workers and audited to increase the efficiency all the way. These resulted in a lot of inefficient workers, workers whose skills were not important, or workers that could easily be replaced for new ones in the post COVID world to be laid off.The massive amount of workers being flooded into the job market was a problem for many, however, LinkedIn capitalized the most as a result of this. Its activity saw a significant boost and the user base expanded to more than expected. Consequently, the revenue generated from advertisements increased as well. LinkedIn banked on this time and introduced reforms to retain the increase in users. It generated over 10 billion dollars, a record, as Microsoft released its subsidiaries revenue information. The most prominent feature that resulted in LinkedIn’s increased…
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