In some cases, an employment l; on LinkedIn, workers can even highlight it on their profiles as a ‘career break’, where they can detail newly acquired skills or life experiences. In its March 2022 survey of 23,000 global workers, 62% of employees said they’d taken a break at some point in their professional career. This openness around resume gaps has coincided with a surge in redundancies, the shedding of the layoff taboo and workers writing epic farewell messages on the platform highlighting their experience of being cut.