LinkedIn Acquired Employee Engagement Platform Glint

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but LinkedIn vice president of talent solutions, careers and learning Daniel Shapero said in a blog post that when the deal closes—expected during parent company Microsoft’s second fiscal quarter of 2019, which ends Dec. 31—Glint founder and CEO Jim Barnett will report to him, and the bulk of the Glint team will continue reporting to Barnett.

Glint’s human resources, finance, information security and legal teams will join the respective functional teams at LinkedIn.

Shapero wrote in his blog post, “We believe that Glint has uncovered a modern HR best practice that every company should do: Regularly gather employee feedback on work, culture and leadership, and give leaders the tools they need to translate those insights into action.