We were discussing just the other day how the number of Linked In requests we were getting was rocketing...
TechCrunch sees it too:
As layoffs continued to pound the economy in January, one beneficiary was job networking site LinkedIn. According to the latest January data from comScore, the LinkedIn’s U.S. unique visitors shot up 22 percent to 7.7 million, up from 6.3 million in December. Total minutes spent on the site doubled in January to 96.8 million, from 47.6 million in December.
In the UK it may also be still because its going up the adoption curve, but no doubt the current situation is also focussing minds.