Equifax is sending a subject matter to its work force by firing at least two twelve of them . The company has allegedly used its own software to key out remote employees work another full - sentence job while engage by Equifax .
The firing of 24 outback employees from Equifax ’s workforce is the upshot of a month - long interior investigation by the company , saysInsider . The troupe allegedly looked through the records of at least 1,000 employees — including human resource and cybersecurity pro — using its own software called The Work Number .
Equifax tout The Work Number as the “ country ’s largest concentrate commercial-grade database of income and employment information”on its web site , a statement which is as much vague as it is Orwellian . Employees were notified of their colleagues ’ result via an email from Equifax CEO Mark Begor , which was obtained by Insider .
Equifax’s The Work Number is software that collects detailed employment records from more than 2.5 million employers.Image: dennizn (Shutterstock)
“ We bear our team to be fully dedicated to EFX and have one purpose … their job at EFX , ” Begor wrote in the email , where EFX refers to Equifax . “ I am sure you are as defeated as I am . ”
We ’re not . Apparently , 25 employees were interviewed by the company and all but one were terminated , lay aside the ship’s company a reported $ 3.2 million . The investigation , which had brash nicknames like “ Project Home Alone ” and “ Project Page 12 , ” also relied on data that lie of handler feedback , low VPN exercise ( less than 13 hours per work week ) , and periods throughout the day where a doer was unavailable .
“ Equifax followed all applicable laws in its handling of this berth , ” said Equifax representative Kate Walker . “ These employees were terminated because of multiple factors , include in many cases their own admission that they had a junior-grade full - fourth dimension position , which prevented them from fulfil their full time obligations to Equifax . ”
Equifax told Insider that the incredibly elaborate and sensible data collect and stored on The Work Number is n’t give out to third company , but it ’s a really dystopian moment when the troupe behind it is using it to keep their own employees in origin . Equifax did not directly return Gizmodo ’s request for comment .
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