LinkedIn Jobs will help you track your potential commute times

LinkedIn Jobs will help you track your potential commute timesLinkedIn Jobs will help you track your potential commute timesWhen it comes to work, we all know that getting there is half the battle - which is why a new feature could come in handy. LinkedIn announcedthat its new Your Commute capability will let users see how long itll take to travel to a position as they scourLinkedIn Jobs on their mobile device.Heres how it worksUsers willreportedly be able to plug in the locations theyll be traveling to and from, how long theyd like to travel to the job, plus the desired time of departure. The feature will be able to display the approximate travel times by car, foot, and public transportation. You dont have to apply for a jobto use it, andusers will have the option to save their commute preferences on the platform.But the company had some help making this happen.LinkedIn, which welches acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016, has been slowly cross-pollinating features and se rvices with its new owner, and this is the case here. The location and navigation data is being supplied by Bing Maps, Microsofts mapping service that is akin to Google and Apple Maps, by way of its API,TechCrunch reports.Dan Li, a LinkedIn senior product manager who wrote the companys blog post, also reportedly told TechCrunch that users will be able to access Your Commute on their desktop computers in the future.The Your Commute feature could help users get a more realistic perspective on what it would be like to get to and from a new job.