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TALX (pronounced talks) is now Equifax Workforce Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equifax. ==History== Based out St. Louis, TALX was founded in 1973 as Interface Technology Inc. by several individuals including H. Richard "Rick" Grodsky, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Washington University. Interface Technology provided interactive voice response systems. Bill Canfield joined the company in 1986 as President and CEO in 1986 and added the title of Chairman in 1988. TALX went public listing on the NASDAQ in an IPO in 1996 and offered 2,000,000 shares at $9 per share for a total offer amount of $18,000,000. TALX Corp. At the time of the IPO, TALX designed and implemented interactive communication solutions using computer telephony to integrate technologies such as interactive voice response, facsimile, e-mail, Internet and corporate Intranet. TALX's interactive communication solutions enabled an organization's employees, customers, vendors and business partners to access, input and update information stored in data bases without human assistance. TALX also provided a branded employment and income verification service, The Work Number for Everyone, that a provided automated access to employment and salary records of large employers for purposes of loan and other credit approvals. The events of September 11, 2001 caused TALX to shift its focus toward configurable data solutions and a recurring revenue model and away from custom on-premise software solutions. The employment and income verification service, The Work Number, as it was later became known, became the revenue and profit growth engine for the company. All future acquisitions and organic innovations were done to strengthen the employment and income verification business unit. March 2002 TALX Corporation acquired the two largest human resource outsourcing companies that specialized in unemployment cost management and related human resource applications, The Frick Company, the second largest provider headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and the largest provider of unemployment cost management business, Gates McDonald, a subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. 〔http://investor.talx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74399&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=844530〕 TALX sold it's e-Choice Benefits Enrollment Services business to Workscape in April 2003 to further focus on its core business of payroll-centric services with more standardized delivery platforms. 〔http://investor.talx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74399&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=403912〕 During the period of 2002 and 2005, TALX increased its dominance in unemployment cost management services through acquisitions of Johnson & Associates LLC, TBT Enterprises Inc., UI Advantage Inc., Jon-Jay Associates Inc., Employers Unity Inc. and parts of Sheakley-Uniservice Inc. These acquisitions and the organic growth of The Work Number made TALX the dominate leader in employment and income verification and unemployment cost management services in the United States. TALX also added or created a number of other payroll-centric Human Resource related employer services including W-2 Management, I-9 Management, Tax Credit and Incentive Management, and Online Paperless Pay. TALX also successfully partnered with ADP, Ceridian, Aon-Hewitt and other payroll and benefit providers to package customized suites of services under several alliance banners. In 2007, TALX was acquired by Equifax, one of the big three credit reporting agencies, in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion. 〔http://investor.talx.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74399&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=963591〕 As of 2010, integration was completed and TALX now officially operates as a division of Equifax. In October 2012, Equifax changed the name of the TALX business unit to Equifax Workforce Solutions to reflects the organization's commitment to leveraging its extensive workforce data with the analytics resources of Equifax.〔http://investor.equifax.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=751150〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Talx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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