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| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | ADP | A public payroll, tax, HR, benefits, and workforce-management services company used by employers to pay and administer workers. ADP has real payroll utility, but it centralizes employee data, compliance workflows, pay cards, tax filing, and employer-side control rather than worker governance. | public payroll, HR, tax, and workforce-services company | Medium confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Checkr | A private background-screening platform used by employers and gig platforms for criminal, identity, education, employment, and post-hire workforce monitoring checks. Checkr scores low because job candidates face data-intensive screening and potential exclusion through systems they rarely chose. | private employment background-screening platform | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -4 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | First Advantage / Sterling | A public background-screening and identity-verification company that acquired Sterling Check and serves employers with pre-hire and workforce screening. First Advantage/Sterling scores low because it scales private judgment over employment eligibility through criminal, identity, drug, education, and verification data. | public employment background-screening and identity-verification company | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -4 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Green Corps | An environmental organizer training program and campaign-support organization for early-career activists. Green Corps scores low because it can create useful organizing skill, but it also recruits idealistic young people into an intensive political-labor pipeline controlled by professional advocacy institutions. | environmental organizer training organization | Medium confidence (AI) | The Public Interest Network | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -4 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | 0 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Gusto | A private payroll, benefits, and HR platform serving small and medium-size businesses. Gusto scores above enterprise HCM gatekeepers because it is more oriented toward small-business administration and straightforward payroll, but it remains investor-controlled employer-side infrastructure handling sensitive worker data. | private payroll, benefits, and HR platform for small businesses | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | HireRight | A background-screening company providing employment, criminal, identity, education, drug, and international checks to employers. HireRight scores low because private-equity-owned screening infrastructure mediates job access through records and workflows controlled by employers and vendors, not applicants. | private-equity-owned employment background-screening company | High confidence (AI) | General Atlantic / Stone Point Capital | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -4 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | The Work Number | An Equifax Workforce Solutions database used for income and employment verification by lenders, employers, landlords, and government-benefit systems. The Work Number scores very low because employment and pay data become a privately controlled dossier that workers usually did not meaningfully choose. | Equifax-owned income and employment verification database | High confidence (AI) | Equifax | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -5 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | UKG | A private HR, payroll, scheduling, timekeeping, and workforce-management software company. UKG scores low because scheduling and workforce intelligence tools can increase employer control over time, attendance, performance, and labor allocation with little worker governance. | private HR, payroll, and workforce-management software company | Medium confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -3 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Ventures | A Seattle nonprofit providing business education, coaching, incubation, capital, and marketplace access to entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities. It scores this way because it builds ownership and income capacity for low-income, immigrant, women, veteran, and BIPOC entrepreneurs rather than extracting from them. | microenterprise and small-business support nonprofit | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Work for Progress | A recruiting and job-board organization connecting applicants to nonprofit advocacy jobs in the Public Interest Network ecosystem. It scores very low because its product is a pipeline into demanding political advocacy work, with little evidence that recruits gain binding control over the organizations using their labor. | progressive nonprofit recruiting organization | Medium confidence (AI) | The Public Interest Network | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | 0 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Workday | A public enterprise software company selling HR, payroll, workforce planning, finance, and AI-enabled skills/talent systems. Workday scores low because it centralizes workplace data and algorithmic management infrastructure for employers while workers have limited control over how the system classifies them. | public human-capital-management and finance software company | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -3 | -2 |