Equifax Announces Coldwater Creek as 3,000th Client

Equifax Workforce Solutions today announced its 3,000th employer client for The Work Number®, the nation's premier employment and income data source. Coldwater Creek, Inc.

, a leading specialty retailer of women's apparel, jewelry, and accessories, joins the ranks of a consistently growing list of employers that benefit from having a compliant process in place for handling inbound verifications of their workforces' employment information. Through The Work Number service, Equifax Workforce Solutions removes the employer's burden of fulfilling verification requests received on employees as they engage in consumer activity. Rather than try to manage urgent and cumbersome inbound verification requests, Coldwater Creek, and all other clients provide payroll information each pay period so that Equifax Workforce Solutions can manage verifications on their behalf. This removes administrative costs and burdens, and more importantly helps protect employee information and mitigate risk to their organization concerning control over the release of sensitive data. "We want to ensure that our employees are being served in the best way possible. Equifax offers our workforce the fastest and most secure employment verifications possible," said Katie Maurer, senior vice president, Human