Checkr’s Denver office is in the building at 1621 18th St. (Google Maps)
A background check company is laying off staff at its LoDo office.
Checkr, which said its software completes “faster and fairer” background checks, notified the state yesterday that it’s laying off employees assigned to its downtown Denver office, some of whom work remotely.
The 92 affected employees were notified yesterday and will be let go in June. The letter did not provide a reason for the layoffs. Checkr did not respond to requests for comment.
The employees are assigned to Checkr’s office in the 18th Street Atrium building at 1621 18th St. The San Francisco-born company opened what it called a “second headquarters” in Denver in 2019, signing an 11-year lease for three floors and roughly 92,450 square feet in the building, according to the Colorado Real Estate Journal.
To help bring the company to Denver, the Colorado Economic Development Commission gave Checkr a $27.9 million job-growth tax incentive. That incentive would be paid over eight years for each job created. Checkr estimated it would hire roughly 1,500 Denver employees in that time, more than it had at its California headquarters.
Daniel Yanisse and Jonathan Perichon founded Checkr in 2014 because they felt traditional background checks were “slow, manual, and designed to screen-out candidates.”
The company offers three plans: the basic, essential and professional. The basic plan costs $29.99 per background check and checks Social Security number trace, the sex offender registry, global watchlist records and national criminal records. The professional plan costs $79.99 per background check, and offers everything on the basic plan plus a county criminal search, education verification and current employment verification.
From 2019 to 2021 Checkr raised $488.6 million, according to SEC filings. In 2022 it acquired another background check company, Inflection, that specializes in background checks for small businesses, according to a news release.
In addition to Denver, Checkr has two offices in San Francisco, according to Linkedin, and an office in Chile. This is Checkr’s second round of layoffs. In 2020, it laid off 64 employees from Denver and San Francisco offices.
Checkr notified the state in an effort to comply with the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires employers to provide advance notice of plant closings and significant layoffs.
Other companies that have notified the state of layoffs this year include the U.K.-based manufacturer IMI Norgen, Fort Collins-based BillGO and Dish Network.
Checkr’s Denver office is in the building at 1621 18th St. (Google Maps)
A background check company is laying off staff at its LoDo office.
Checkr, which said its software completes “faster and fairer” background checks, notified the state yesterday that it’s laying off employees assigned to its downtown Denver office, some of whom work remotely.
The 92 affected employees were notified yesterday and will be let go in June. The letter did not provide a reason for the layoffs. Checkr did not respond to requests for comment.
The employees are assigned to Checkr’s office in the 18th Street Atrium building at 1621 18th St. The San Francisco-born company opened what it called a “second headquarters” in Denver in 2019, signing an 11-year lease for three floors and roughly 92,450 square feet in the building, according to the Colorado Real Estate Journal.
To help bring the company to Denver, the Colorado Economic Development Commission gave Checkr a $27.9 million job-growth tax incentive. That incentive would be paid over eight years for each job created. Checkr estimated it would hire roughly 1,500 Denver employees in that time, more than it had at its California headquarters.
Daniel Yanisse and Jonathan Perichon founded Checkr in 2014 because they felt traditional background checks were “slow, manual, and designed to screen-out candidates.”
The company offers three plans: the basic, essential and professional. The basic plan costs $29.99 per background check and checks Social Security number trace, the sex offender registry, global watchlist records and national criminal records. The professional plan costs $79.99 per background check, and offers everything on the basic plan plus a county criminal search, education verification and current employment verification.
From 2019 to 2021 Checkr raised $488.6 million, according to SEC filings. In 2022 it acquired another background check company, Inflection, that specializes in background checks for small businesses, according to a news release.
In addition to Denver, Checkr has two offices in San Francisco, according to Linkedin, and an office in Chile. This is Checkr’s second round of layoffs. In 2020, it laid off 64 employees from Denver and San Francisco offices.
Checkr notified the state in an effort to comply with the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires employers to provide advance notice of plant closings and significant layoffs.
Other companies that have notified the state of layoffs this year include the U.K.-based manufacturer IMI Norgen, Fort Collins-based BillGO and Dish Network.
