Does The League Hide Your Profile From Coworkers

Mostly, if you connect LinkedIn. The League says that when you sync with LinkedIn, it does its best to use your workplace information to hide your profile from people you work with. "Does its best" is not a promise, so the safe plan is to use the feature and still write a profile you would be comfortable with a coworker seeing.

The feature depends on LinkedIn. When you sync your account, The League reads where you work from your LinkedIn and uses it to keep your profile away from people at the same company.

The League describes this protection as part of syncing with LinkedIn, which makes it one of the better reasons to verify that way rather than with a work email. LinkedIn is what hands The League the workplace details it needs to try.

The League's own wording is careful, and it is worth reading carefully.

"Does its best" means The League makes a real effort to keep coworkers from seeing you. It does not say it can stop every one of them. It can only work from the workplace details it has, so plan for the chance that someone from your office comes across you anyway.

That is not a reason to stay off the app. It is a reason to make sure there is nothing on your page you would mind them seeing.

For a lot of men the bigger worry is not a coworker finding them. It is The League doing something with their LinkedIn account.

The League addresses that directly. It says it never sees your LinkedIn username or password. It says it never accesses your LinkedIn contacts and never notifies them. So connecting LinkedIn does not announce to your network that you joined a dating app, and it does not give The League your contact list.

You can go one step further than the coworker filter. The League lets you hide the name of your current workplace, as well as all your past jobs and all but one of your education entries.

What you cannot hide is your current job title. That always stays visible. For most men, a title without a company name is vague enough that a stranger could not work out where you work. If your title is so specific that it gives your employer away, that is worth knowing before you go live.

To hide an entry, tap the eye icon next to it. If you change something on LinkedIn later, tap Refresh LinkedIn so The League shows the updated version.

If keeping your dating life away from work matters to you, do things in this order before your profile goes live.

Sync LinkedIn first, so The League has your workplace and can try to keep you out of view. Then go through your work and education entries and hide what you do not want shown, including the name of your current company if you like. Read your current job title and decide whether it points to your employer. Only then write your About Me and choose your photos, with the thought that a colleague might see them.

Doing it in that order means nothing goes up before the protections are in place.

Assume your page might be seen by someone you work with. Then build it so that would not matter.

That turns out to be the same advice that gets you dates. Leave out the office party photos and anything taken at a work event. Keep complaints about your job out of your About Me. Nothing in your bio should be something you would be embarrassed to hear read aloud in a meeting.

a dating coach's test for a dating page is to ask what the most attractive true story about your life is, then build your photos and write-up around it. A profile that passes that test is one you would be happy for anyone to see, colleague or not.

It happens, and it is much less awkward than men expect.

The League is an app for people looking for something serious. A colleague who sees you there has learned that you are single and looking, which is a normal thing for an adult to be. They are also on the same app, so they are in exactly the same position.

If it comes up, a relaxed line and a change of subject is plenty. Treat it as the non-event it is, and it will stay one.