The background screening industry is seeing a lot of success with monitoring solutions that help employers and end users better manage the ongoing risks of a workforce that is less and less under the direct watchful eye of its employers. Even when remote working was less of a necessity, monitoring was rising in value as… Read more

Ordinarily when we talk about a product or service, we focus on what it is. Features, benefits, advantages. We speak to what it is rather than what it is not. Monitoring seems a bit of a paradox. On face, everyone “understands” what it means. But what do they really understand when we begin to peel… Read more

As one of the more “tenured” people in the background screening industry, I along with a few dozen others will remember the 1984 Wendy’s commercial featuring an elderly Clara Peller asking that famous question, “Where’s the beef?” The point of course was that Wendy’s burgers had more beef, more meat, than their competitors. What does… Read more

Remember when the Blackberry was the ultimate smartphone? When MySpace ruled social media? Or when everyone had a Hotmail account? How about when TV was broadcast in real-time and you had to be on the couch in time to catch your favorite show? When movies were rented from a store? Or when email was the… Read more