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Help reduce HR workload and provide an important employee benefit with income and employment verifications through The Work Number™. Part of the PeopleHQ™ employer platform.
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The Power of Automated Verifications
Help your employees receive verifications faster with less manual work for your HR team. Contribute employment records to The Work Number each pay period for a better employment verification experience for you and your employees.
→ Lessen your workload and reduce your risk, at no cost to you
→ Help employees get decisions faster with 24/7 availability
→ Controlled data access
How It Works
Contributing employment records to The Work Number is a more private, digital way to help automate your employee verifications. Help credentialed verifiers instantly get the information they need so that employees can receive credit, benefit, and other decisions faster. This service is offered at no additional cost to your organization.
Employers
Employers send employment and income data each payroll cycle to The Work Number database.
Employees
Employees initiate events where a verification of employment or income is necessary, such as purchasing a home or car.
Organizations
Organizations that pass a strict credentialing process can access the data in nearly real-time to aid in quicker, more informed decisioning.
key benefits of the work number
Simplify Your HR Workload
Forget the paperwork. We work behind the scenes to significantly lessen your manual verification workload to shift potential liability from your HR Department while helping mitigate the risk of errors.
Help Power Life's Important Moments
Provide on-demand responses employees can count on by enabling more private, digital income and employment verifications 24/7. Credentialed verifiers receive fast access to data so employees can receive more informed decisions quickly.
Offer Better Privacy for Employees
Each verifier is vetted and must meet Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) standards to access data. Every verification is tracked for visibility into who requested information and when.
Provide Easy Self-Serve Employee Tools
Employees can review their employment and income data and see a two year history of The Work Number verification requests online at any time.
Contributing is Simple
Thanks to powerful alliance partnerships with many of the top payroll and HCMs, along with easy set-up, contributing to The Work Number has never been easier.
Join the 3.1M+ employers from a variety of industries contributing to The Work Number.
47M
In 2023, 47 million people benefitted from instant income and employment verifications outside of regular business hours because of The Work Number.
695M+
The Work Number database offers credentialed verifiers access to more than 695 million records for verifications of income and employment.
144M
The Work Number service fulfilled 144 million verification requests on behalf of consumers in 2023.
More Power with Your Payroll
Automation doesn’t stop with employment verifications. The Work Number service, Unemployment Cost Management service, and Work Opportunity Tax Credit service can be implemented more easily at the same time leveraging the same payroll information.
Your payroll file can help secure life’s most important moments for your employees, help you reduce your unemployment costs, and help you capture more tax credits through the Work Opportunity Tax Credit program.
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SUCCESS STORY
Our HR team loves The Work Number process! Equifax is the best outsourcing partner we’ve had. If I had known how easy and helpful verifications through The Work Number would be, I would have started a lot sooner.
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