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This is just the kind of publicity that will have their customers call Equifax up and have them sift through their own payrolls to find employees to fire.

Doesn't matter to Equifax. I'm not sure you can trash a brand harder, but they have embedded customers.

Equifax doesn’t care about that lol.

Yeah I think this article is just irony of how poor decisions have no impact on financal institutions, and they still are eating your cake. The sad part is not enough are wise enough to understand, and it is likely even less would care.

This is great publicity. It's Equifax talking about how their new product removed double-dipping employees. Don't you also want to find your distracted employees? For a modest fee to Equifax, you can too.

Unless your employee is underperforming why would you care?

You would be surprised about how many top managers are control freaks

IP rights assignment.

The difference between being understanding because rescheduling meetings because someone's family is sick vs they want to take a meeting for another job.

If they just got a second job I can fire them before their performance dips.

It's a reason to skip past six months of a PIP

There are lots of reasons.