How to Hide Job Change Announcements on LinkedIn (2026)

To stop job change announcements in your LinkedIn feed: click ··· on any announcement post → 'I don't want to see this' → 'Not relevant'. Turn off email and push notifications for job changes under Settings → Notifications. For connections whose career updates are consistent comparison triggers, use Unfollow — silent, reversible, they stay in your network. For complete feed removal, install News Feed Eradicator.

Last verified: May 31, 2026 · Reading time: 5 min · Difficulty: Easy

Why this is worth doing

LinkedIn is uniquely good at generating social comparison. Job change announcements appear directly in your feed, arrive as push notifications, trigger email prompts to “Congratulate,” and show up in the sidebar. The platform makes career transitions visible to your entire network simultaneously.

For many people — those in job transitions themselves, those in difficult professional periods, those prone to comparison — this creates a specific kind of anxiety that has nothing to do with the quality of their professional life. The volume and frequency of visible career advancement isn’t a reflection of reality; it’s a reflection of LinkedIn’s engagement mechanics.

Reducing it is a reasonable choice.

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Step 1: Turn off notifications first

Before dealing with the feed, cut the notifications — they’re easier and more disruptive.

Email notifications:

1. Click your profile picture → Settings & Privacy.
2. Go to Notifications → Email.
3. Find Connections’ activity and turn off “Job changes and work anniversaries”.

Push notifications:

1. Settings & Privacy → Notifications → On LinkedIn.
2. Turn off “Job changes and anniversaries” under Connections’ activity.

This stops LinkedIn from proactively alerting you to other people’s promotions. It doesn’t remove them from the feed — that’s step 2.

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Step 2: Signal “Not relevant” on job change posts

For posts that still appear in your feed:

1. Click ··· on the post.
2. “I don’t want to see this” → “Not relevant”.

Apply this consistently over two weeks. LinkedIn’s algorithm will gradually reduce these announcements. It works slowly but cumulatively.

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Step 3: Unfollow the most frequent comparison triggers

If specific people’s career updates are consistently affecting you, unfollow them.

This isn’t avoidance — it’s triage. You’re not saying their success is bad. You’re saying that this particular input, at this frequency, isn’t useful to you right now. You can re-follow at any time.

From a post: ··· → “Unfollow [Name]”.

Silent. No notification. 1st-degree connection remains intact.

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Step 4: Turn off “Congratulate” prompts

LinkedIn displays “Congratulate [Name] on their new job” cards in the sidebar and email digests. To reduce these:

• Sidebar cards: Dismiss with the × when you see them. LinkedIn will note you dismissed it.
• Email digest: Under email notifications, unsubscribe from “Congratulations prompts” in the Connections’ activity section.
• There is no single “turn off all Congratulate prompts” toggle in 2026. This requires dismissing them individually until LinkedIn reduces the frequency.

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Method: Remove the feed entirely

If job change posts are pervasive and the above steps feel like ongoing maintenance, News Feed Eradicator removes the home feed entirely.

With the feed gone, all job change announcements that appear in the algorithmic scroll disappear. LinkedIn’s job board (/jobs), messages, search, and notifications remain completely unaffected — you lose the comparison theater, not the professional utility.

Install News Feed Eradicator — free, Chrome and Firefox.

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What to do next

1. Turn off email and push notifications for job changes under Settings → Notifications (5 minutes).
2. Unfollow 3–5 people whose career updates consistently affect you.
3. If the feed is still a comparison trigger after a week, install News Feed Eradicator.

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