Relatively low stress. Coworkers are good people. Decent work-life balance.
No on-board training. Frequent reorganizing and lack of committed product enhancements. Really strict with the work-hybrid policy.
Recently I went thru rental application and found that real estate agent verified my employment status thru theworknumber - I was bit suprised they could do that! When I logged into their portal I see they got complete information - my income, bonus, my leaves, 401K details, title, health insurance,...Read more
Are there things you have to do in addition to signing up the free monitoring services they offer?
Anyone has insider information into how hackers got access to user data? I understand not all info might be appropriate to share (ongoing investigation, vulnerability still exposed) but it will be good for customers to know if there was negligence from Equifax in their security standards. I mean t...Read more
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/equifax-hack-department-of-justice-charges-chinese-military-members/ They have been stealing IP for decades and now thought it's better to get a little more direct when it comes to thievery. How do you feel about having your data in the hands o...Read more
Some scary sh**t It had every job , my title at the job, what insurance I had at the job, what my pay rate was, my start and stop dates, my pay dates, the amount on each paycheck, how many hours I worked each pay period, etc. If I was a temporary employee, it had what the business paid as my salary...Read more
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Apple confirms they reclassify all former employees job titles to “Associate” after separating, stripping the employee of whatever title was held. This data is also shared with 3rd party employment history verification services managed by Equifax, Lexis Nexis and others. https://www.washingtonpost....Read more
100 million data breaches? Are you serious? First it was Equifax, then Capital One...Who's next? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/capital-one-data-systems-breached-by-seattle-woman-u-s-says
If you are affected by Equifax 2017 breach, they owe you $125. Why not "sign up" for it? https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/25/8930233/equifax-data-breach-ftc-settlement-claim-sign-up-how-to
Looks like Equifax has to pay those who were part of the data breach: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/equifax-data-breach-settlement
Equifax has a lot of data on employees of 10s of millions of Americans. They used it to review and fire 24 employees working another job. Link: How Equifax used employment records it collects from 2.5 million companies to fire dozens of its own employees for working second jobs https://www.business...Read more
Must read Equifax used their own data from “The Work Number” and fired employees that had multiple full time jobs. They are going to make a product to make it easy for other employees to find out the same. Truly dystopian times incoming. What do you think? Vote ! https://www.businessinsider.com/...Read more
The days of doing 2-3 full time jobs at the same time without reporting to your employer is coming to an End. Equifax has collected data on all US firms and will start selling this data to other companies for potential dual/triple employments. The first step was to use this data internally and they ...Read more
I am thinking of opening a Credit Karma account. How safe is my personal data with them? I hope they have better data protection policies than Equifax.
I learned that Equifax creates an "Employment Data Report" that includes your work salary. And companies can request that data. https://www.theworknumber.com/employees/employment-data-report/ You have to give companies permission to access the report however. Give it a try yourself