LinkedIn Announces Expanded Roll-Out of New ‘Focused Inbox’ Format for InMail
You may have noticed a change to your LinkedIn messaging tab this week.
Today, LinkedIn has confirmed that its new ‘Focused Inbox’ format, which re-routes less valuable messages into an ‘Other’ tab in your LinkedIn message stream, is being rolled out to all users in the app.
Initially announced by LinkedIn back in September, Focused Inbox provides you with two separate InMail tabs – ‘Focused’ and ‘Other’. In this context, ‘Other’ could just as easily be labeled ‘Spam’ – but the purpose, essentially, is to filter out the junk, and highlight the most important outreach in the app.
As explained by LinkedIn Product Manager Deepan Mehta:
“We’ve heard from many of you that you want a better way to organize your LinkedIn inbox. So I’m excited to share that we’re now rolling out a new and improved LinkedIn messaging experience to make it easier for our members around the globe to find and respond to the messages that matter most. Focused Inbox offers a dual-tabbed experience that categorizes your incoming messages into “Focused” and “Other.” Focused contains the most relevant new opportunities and outreach, while Other contains the remainder of your conversations.”