My last 2 companies, LinkedIn asked me to add an email address associated with the said company and actually confirm via said email in order to add them to my profile. So, if I worked for FooCompany, I had to have a @FooCompany.com email which is setup by someone at the company itself. Does this not cover what you're talking about?
According to my research, LinkedIn only does this for executive and now recruiter-like titles, but not broadly. You may be able to in order to get "verified on LinkedIn" but it's not a requirement for showing association with a company.
Email domains of employee addresses aren't necessarily owned by the company. For example:
- a startup with legacy personal email addresses from one or two universities
- a spin-off sharing the email domain (and the whole IT infrastructure) of the parent company
- cheapskates using six approved free email services
For security purposes, on the other hand, the important part is proving that the LinkedIn account is owned by the organization.
So? Then you can't do this. For companies that do want more control over their linkedin organizations, it is still a useful feature. For companies using free e-mail services... they probably don't care anyway.
I have the same. The difference is, if you do email verification, you will "verified" status. If not, you can still add the company to your linkedin, just unverified, which is not a label.
