LinkedIn® is giving verified Company Page admins a new tool that many businesses have wanted for years: the ability to remove known impostor accounts falsely associating themselves with the organisation.
The change forms part of a wider verification update announced by LinkedIn on 23 September 2026. Alongside new peer-backed verification for professional experience, LinkedIn is expanding the controls available to businesses over who appears connected to their brand.
TL;DR
Verified LinkedIn® Company Pages can now remove known impostor accounts so they no longer appear in search results under the company name. LinkedIn is also piloting a stronger control with selected companies that can require workplace verification before somebody claiming current employment can associate themselves with the organisation’s Page. The latter is a pilot, so availability will vary.
What has LinkedIn changed?
LinkedIn says Company Page admins who have verified their Page can now instantly remove known impostor accounts so those accounts no longer appear in search results under the company’s name.
That addresses a longstanding weakness in the relationship between LinkedIn profiles and Company Pages. A member can state where they work or have worked, and that information can contribute to the public picture of an organisation on LinkedIn. For legitimate businesses, false associations can create a reputational problem that the company itself did not create.
The new control gives verified organisations a more direct way to challenge that problem.
LinkedIn is also testing mandatory workplace verification
The more significant development may be what LinkedIn is piloting next.
With a selection of companies, LinkedIn is testing the ability to require workplace verification before somebody claiming current employment can associate themselves with the organisation’s Page.
LinkedIn’s Help documentation now adds an important practical detail: some members may be required to complete workplace verification when they add or edit work experience. That means the verification layer can potentially intervene at the point an employment claim is created or changed, rather than only after a false association has appeared. Availability remains dependent on LinkedIn’s rollout and the organisations included in the test.
That could change the relationship between a Company Page and the people who publicly claim to work for the business. Instead of the association depending entirely on what a member enters on their profile, the organisation could gain an additional verification layer.
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It is important not to overstate this: LinkedIn describes this as a pilot with selected companies, not a feature currently available to every Page.
Why this matters for Company Pages
A LinkedIn Company Page is part of an organisation’s public identity. People use it to research the company, its activity and the people associated with it.
That means inaccurate employee associations are not merely a profile-data problem. They can affect how the organisation itself appears to customers, candidates, partners and other people researching the business.
The development also makes the case for Company Page verification more tangible. Verification is no longer simply another authenticity badge. LinkedIn is beginning to attach practical brand-protection controls to verified Pages.
A wider push towards verified professional history
The same announcement introduces another experiment: LinkedIn is testing peer-backed verification of workplace and educational experience.
LinkedIn says verified members may be prompted to confirm that they worked or studied with a connection. Once somebody receives enough confirmations, LinkedIn can add a verification badge to that person’s profile, with an option to opt out. LinkedIn says members will also be able to proactively ask connections to verify their experiences in the coming months.
Taken together, the changes point towards LinkedIn putting considerably more infrastructure behind claims about professional identity and experience.
Why I have been waiting for this
For Company Page admins, the ability to deal with false employee associations solves a very practical problem.
I have wanted companies to have more control over this for years. If an organisation is expected to maintain a credible official presence on LinkedIn, it is reasonable that it should have some ability to address people falsely presenting themselves as part of that organisation.
The interesting part now is how far LinkedIn takes the workplace-verification pilot. If requiring verification before a current employee can associate with a Company Page becomes widely available, that would be a much more substantial change to how organisational identity works on LinkedIn.
What should Company Page admins do?
If your Company Page is eligible for verification and you have not yet completed it, these new controls add another reason to consider doing so. LinkedIn explicitly ties the new impostor-removal capability to verified Pages.
For everyone else, this is a feature to watch rather than something to assume is already available. LinkedIn is rolling out and testing different parts of its verification system at different speeds.
Source
- LinkedIn: LinkedIn expands verification to help members and businesses build trust on and off LinkedIn — 23 September 2026.
Leaders Social will update this article as LinkedIn expands the workplace-verification pilot and Page-admin controls.
