Courtney Summer Myers' LinkedIn post with a #Desperate banner went viral, gaining 147,000 likes. The post reignited the "Open to Work" banner debate, a tool seen as both helpful and desperate.

Your LinkedIn banner is visible on your LinkedIn profile, appearing as a sort of header for your profile. To change the banner, you'll have to upload a new image into the header.

Unemployed people are no longer afraid to look desperate. A new trend on LinkedIn has prompted users open for work to use a banner reading "#Desperate" on their profiles to signal to employers ...

According to the outlet, over 33 million people on the platform currently use the banner. Also, those with the banner are “20% more likely to get messages from the LinkedIn community at large”.

A graphic designer has gone viral on LinkedIn with a bold new '#Desperate' banner, clapping back at claims that the 'Open to Work' feature makes job-seekers appear desperate.

On LinkedIn, on Reddit, on X, on the very pages of this website, arguments for and against the feature are everywhere. Some consider the banner a job seeker's best friend.