How The Work Number® from Equifax Supports Employers

INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATIONS ARE A KEY STEP in fueling important life events - including buying a house, applying for a loan, or seeking government aid. When income and employment verifications are automated with The Work Number®, employees can receive decisions faster, helping empower them to live their financial best.

Helping Simplify Your Human Resources Workload

HR departments routinely spend valuable time fielding and fulfilling employment and income verification requests, a process that typically involves retrieving, compiling, and manually transmitting employee data. These verifications can take valuable time away from more strategic work. Automating this process can help simplify HR teams' workload so they can focus more on other business initiatives. Additionally, using The Work Number can help shift potential liability from HR teams while also helping to reduce the risk of errors.

Safeguarding Employee Data

The Work Number is governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and verifiers requesting data must be credentialed and have a permissible purpose. Additionally, to help keep employee data safer, verifiers and their transactions are subject to planned and random audits to help ensure proper use of the data received. Equifax maintains a best-in-class security program, helping to keep this important data more secure.

Consumers can learn more about how they can manage their employment information in this video

Powering Life's Important Moments, 24/7

The Work Number helps support employees during some of life's most important moments by automating verifications 24/7. In fact, during 2024 alone, The Work Number supported instant income and employment verifications for 52 million people outside of regular business hours, because employees' need for verifications doesn't stop on evenings and weekends. With The Work Number, credentialed verifiers can instantly access a more comprehensive database of income and employment data that's sourced directly from employers and payroll providers, helping ensure more confident and accurate data, and helping reduce errors and delays for employees.

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