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Something big is happening in American workplaces. Workers are gaining the upper hand as businesses struggle to mount an economic recovery in the midst of a nearly two-year pandemic. From c-suite offices to factory floors, employees are insisting on higher pay, more flexible hours, enhanced benefits and better treatment. And if their bosses can’t—or won’t—heed those demands, many people are going on strike, quitting their jobs or searching elsewhere for more rewarding work.
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Some experts have dubbed it “The Great Resignation” but for LinkedIn chief executive Ryan Rolansky, whose teams have been tracking the phenomenon among the professional network’s nearly 800 million global members, it’s more like a “Great Reshuffle,” he says. Even as an executive who is surely on the receiving end of demands from the company’s 17,000 employees, he’s excited by what LinkedIn can offer users as they navigate the new job market. The reordering of the employee-employer relationship “places LinkedIn in a strong, singular position to really help shape the new world of work,” he says.
Rolansky has worked in Silicon Valley for over two decades, holding executive roles at companies including Glam Media and Yahoo. He joined LinkedIn in 2009, and became chief executive in the pandemic-mired spring of 2020. He recently spoke with TIME about the shifting job market, his “I’m not your dad” management style, and the role LinkedIn can play in building a more equitable society.
(This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.)
Can you describe what the “Great Reshuffle” means, as you see it?
We are experiencing right now globally, one of the biggest changes to ever play out in the world of work. By virtue of building the world’s largest professional network and this world’s economic graph at LinkedIn, we started noticing an interesting…
Source : time
