LinkedIn creates app to look up co-workers

Lookup was created by a team led by Pulse founder Ankit Gupta who says the app was inspired by the company’s research that found just 38% of users who were polled said they found their company’s internal tools helpful for looking up information about their coworkers.

Almost 58 percent said they could do a better job if they could find coworkers with specific skills.

“We wanted to find out why, so later that month we surveyed 814 professionals in North America about how they use their companies’ intranets”, he added.

The company made the announcement on its blog and stated that the new app will makes professionals more productive and successful by helping them easily find, learn about, and contact their coworkers.

Most large companies have employee directories on their intranet, and majority have two things in common: the database entries are typically out of date, and the subpar search functionality justsucks.

Learning about your co-workers isn’t always easy and now LinkedIn has an app for that.

Employees of companies who have opted-in to the service can search for coworkers by name, title or department to see information from their LinkedIn profile, including their skills, work experience, education and work email address. The messages sent to LinkedIn Inboxes via Lookup do not count towards the number of InMails users receive each month. The app also provides all the details of people’s backgrounds from their LinkedIn profiles even if you’re not connected to them on the site.

The LinkedIn Lookup app is now only available for iOS users via App Store.

The app is available on iOS today and will be available later on Android.