I recently noticed that someone had said they were ‘HR at’ my company on Linkedin, so I had to find out how to get them off. Here is how I did it.
If you say you work at a company, Linkedin tries to associate you with that company on their database, so people may accidentally be shown as employees of your company, just via a spelling mistake.
However, the person who said they worked at our company said they were ‘HR’, they were based in the US and there was a faint possibility that other people might contact them in the misunderstood impression that they were talking to an employee of the firm.
If you are connected to the person on your company page, you’ll see a little warning triangle next to their name. You can click this and it will allow you to tell Linkedin that they don’t work for the company now, or never have. This allows the person who administers the company page, to keep the employee list up to date if the employees don’t themselves.
However, if you aren’t connected to the person listed, there is no warning triangle, so a bit more digging is required.
After a little search on Linkedin’s Help Centre I came across the answer.
You need to contact linkedin and provide them with the following information:
- The full name of the person – you can get this from viewing their profile via the company page, but you may only see the full name if the person is following the company.
- A screenshot of your Company Page where that person appears – paste this into a word document and upload it.
- An explanation of why they should be removed.
You send this information to Linkedin via their remove member form.
Note – you must have a confirmed company email address registered to your LinkedIn account.
This is the wording I used:
Dear Linkedin,
Someone has incorrectly associated themselves with our company, xxx.
They state that they are ‘Human Resources at xxx’. The person says they are based in Chicago and we have no association with them. I believe this association may be malicous. It could be construed by others that they run our human resources.
This person is called xxx xxx. (I then provided a link to their public profile)
Attached screenshots. Please let me know whether you can help remove this person.
The response I got was polite and helpful and confirmed that the person had been removed.
You can read Linkedin’s article about this on the Help Centre here.
Have you got a problem with phantom employees on your Linkedin Company pages? Perhaps give this method a try and let us know how you get on.
Su: How does one do the same (remove non-employee) with Facebook?
Hi Randy, sorry to miss your comment it fell into my spam filter…
How do you mean re Facebook? What type of relationship is there?
Several people in other parts o the world list my business as their employer. No friending involved.
We are experiencing the same thing on Facebook. 12 people who do not work here have our company listed as their employer. Is there any way to remove them? They all look to be fake profiles and I don’t want my company to be associated with any possible wrong-doing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi Cheralyn,
I don’t know about facebook, but have asked on twitter to see if anyone does. Thanks for asking.
Did you figure out how to remove people who are not employees? I’m having the same problem. My business hows up in their profile as their employer.
Hi, I have this problem too! I think I must have invited them as employees and they accepted, not sure how and not sure why? Does anyone know how to remove them?
I did contact LinkedIn several times asking to remove 2 unknown employees from my company and after one month I never got a reply from them. I did follow the required procedure and the only solution was to delete and re-create the company profile.
VERY UNPROFESSIONAL from LinkedIn
We are facing the same problem and I cant find any help on facebook or the web. People list our company as their employers. Any help would be appreciated.
Today we learned that someone in India lists themselves as the president of our company. Our logo appears next to their title.
I have had someone in India list themselves as Managing Director of my Company in the UK, absolutely no affiliation whatsoever. I’ve tried reporting him to FB for impersonating me, but to no avail.
Anybody got any solutions yet? ANy help would be hugely appreciated.
I am experiencing the same issue. Anyone found a good solution?
Hi Scott,
Re the Facebook situation, no I don’t think there is a solution as yet. If the person is otherwise breaking Facebook’s Terms and Conditions you could report them, which would ultimately delete their account, but as far as I know Facebook doesn’t let you edit employee entries.
This is another reason why I’m not really in favour of using Facebook for business. I don’t think its set up that way.
I had the same problem on Linkedin. I emailed them as you suggested. Within 6 hours they had emailed back to inform me that the person had been removed.
Painless and quick.
+1 for Linkedin.
Dear Chris,
That’s a great result, well done Linkedin, and thanks for encouraging others to get in touch with them by commenting here.
someone also followed our company page and show his company as my company name…
but linkedin do not have a admin operate to add or remove employee? is that right?
Hi Matt,
If someone is identifying themselves as an employee of your company and isn’t, you can apply to Linkedin to have them removed (or their association with your company removed).
Use the procedure and the forms linked to above and it should work.
You can also contact Linkedin on Twitter at @LinkedInHelp
hi Su
thanks for reply
i asked my friend to contact linkedin and they asked to firstly contact the guy firstly and if he do nothing for remove himself from company employee list we can apply to ask linkedin to delete
many thanks for your info indeed!
Thanks for posting this! I had this happen to me over the weekend and had no clue what to do about it. Your instructions were clear and concise and even included links! Thanks for saving me so much time!
Hi Su,
Is there any way that we can remove company profiles which are created by ex-employees and we don’t have the email of the person who created it?
Hi Ranjeeth,
That’s a good question.
Because company page deletions will affect the profiles of employees, they are loathe to let company pages be deleted. You can see their points about this here:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/topics/6227/6228/5016
That being the case I would suggest you use the form on this link to tell Linkedin about your problem and they will be able to deal with you directly.
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/cp-master
You’ll need to provide information about the company page and what you want to do. It may be appropriate for you to claim a page someone else has made, or alternatively to ask LinkedIn to delete it if you already have one.
Thanks for asking; happy to help
Su