• Return on Investment.
  Handling routine employment or income verification requests is tedious and time-consuming. The administrative costs add up quickly. Using The Work Number lifts the burden for employers at low cost.
  
  
• Employee Service.
  It’s hard to keep up with verification requests. If your employees are waiting to close a loan on a car or house, that can become a serious service issue. The Work Number can respond to verifiers in minutes. And employees can send lenders or others needing a verification to The Work Number any time of the night or day, all year, and including weekends. The service is available via phone, Web, or fax.
  
  
• Accurate and Safe.
  The Work Number provides only the basic information requested: employment status and (when employees grant permission) income. The Work Number removes the risk of lawsuits associated with casual comments about an employee made to outsiders.
  
  
• Control.
  The Work Number gives employers access to webManager, a secure online administrative tool that also provides valuable metrics. A designated administrator can track the number of employment verifications being performed. With webManager, you have such granular visibility that you can even see the volume of verifications of your organization's active employment records versus inactive records, and how many times verifications were performed via the Web versus telephone.
  
  
• Portal-Enabled
  The Work Number integrates seamlessly with your corporate portal or intranet. A simple link from your intranet places The Work Number alongside all your employee services for quick self service. With The Work Number’s optional single sign-on feature, you can advance your self-service strategy and make it easy for your employees to use the service.

TALX is the market leader in this field. Over half of the Fortune 500 outsources routine employment and income verifications to The Work Number, as do many major public sector employers. A partial list of employers who use The Work Number is available here.

TALX is experienced at handling sensitive payroll data from its clients. Client data is protected by state-of-the-art data center technology.

TALX is the go-to choice for organizations that need fast, accurate, fraud-proof verifications. Over 50,000 different verifiers use The Work Number to perform verifications each year. These users include major mortgage lenders such as Bank of America, Cedant, Chase Manhattan, Citigroup, Countrywide Financial, National City, and Wachovia. Approximately 6,000 social service agencies are users of The Work Number, including HUD, Social Service Administration, and public agencies in all 50 states.

Employers can request more information about outsourcing verifications to The Work Number via our contact us form.

Please see our frequently asked questions section for additional information.

The Work Number Services:
Employment Verification
Income Verification
Social Services