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Are you sure yours does not? Most large tech firms use Equifax for The Work Number.

• abecedarius 9y ago
  How does this work? Does the employer have a clause in your contract, plus a deal with this company to feed them this data, in exchange for what? It wasn't clear to me from poking around their website. Does it buy the employer the ability to query this database about their new candidates? I don't remember anything like this when last I worked fulltime for a bigco, in 2007.
  • rdtsc 9y ago
    > in exchange for what? Guessing here but it could be in exchange to letting them use the data as well. By feeding data back into it, they might get some benefit like a discount for example. People join and leave companies regularly and having access to the system allows them to low-ball people in salary negotiations thus saving them a considerable chunk of money. Wonder how legal that is. It's obviously not completely illegal but it seems like it would be a gray area. Should the company be allowed to share a worker's salary information? Does that belong to the worker or the company? If it belongs to the worker the company could still just claim if you work here on page 95 of your contract you agreed to let us share this and it looks like you signed and agreed, so tough luck. You can almost see some executive there realizing "Hey, I read in <whatever business journal> people are getting pretty good jumps in salaries just by moving jobs. Regular workers shouldn't be able to do those kinda things. It seems if we invent this new product we could fuck people over and make a good chunk of money for ourselves" (followed by maniacal evil laughter).
  • g051051 9y ago
    2007 was when Equifax bought The Work Number. It probably wasn't as prevalent then.