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Employees are bypassing HR, sharing on LinkedIn

How LinkedIn has become the new HR

Amid a fracturing social-media landscape and the decline of company loyalty and other evolving tensions between employees and employers in the wake of the pandemic, LinkedIn has grown looser and weirder, more personal and more combative. "Toxic behavior in the workplace is an ever present issue with the power to significantly undermine company culture, team morale, and performance," says Joe Galvin, the chief research officer of the executive coaching firm Vistage. "She tried to convince me that I couldn't succeed in her practice area" and pressured Beverly to watch graphic footage from one of her cases, "including a prison gang rape in an effort to scare me off."

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