Our mission
WorksPerk.com helps working people get straight answers about their jobs. We explain the practical side of employment, things like how to find your W-2 after you’ve left, what your PTO actually accrues to, how a company’s employee discount really works, and what happens to your benefits the day you walk out the door. We write it in plain language, the way a coworker who’s already figured it out would tell you.
We cover major US employers, and we’re adding more all the time. We also publish guides to government benefits like unemployment, SNAP, COBRA, and Medicaid, plus calculators and tools to help you work out the numbers for your own situation. Most of our readers are hourly workers, current or former, who landed here trying to solve one specific problem. Our job is to get them the answer fast, and get it right.
We are independent and unaffiliated
WorksPerk.com is an independent website. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the companies we write about. Company names, portal names, and trademarks belong to their owners, and we mention them only to identify the employer a given article covers.
When we describe how a company’s system works, we’re explaining it from the outside, based on public information and what employees actually experience. We don’t speak for any employer.
Editorial independence
Our content is created by our own editorial team. The companies we cover don’t write, review, or approve our articles, and our coverage isn’t shaped by advertisers.
We don’t take payment in exchange for going easy on an employer, and we don’t skip the uncomfortable parts. Attendance-point systems that fire people over five infractions, holidays that got cut, benefits that lapse the moment you separate, portals that lock former employees out: if it affects a worker, we say so plainly.
How we create content
Every article is written by an assigned author and then reviewed by an editor before it goes live. Nothing publishes on a single person’s say-so.
The process starts with picking topics our readers actually search for. From there, an author researches the subject using official company sources and documented employee experience, writes the draft, and hands it to an editor. The editor checks it for accuracy, clarity, and tone. Anything involving pay, taxes, benefits, or account access gets a closer look, because the cost of getting those wrong is real money or a missed deadline for the reader.
Research and sources
We build articles from a mix of sources:
- Official company portals, HR pages, and public announcements
- Publicly available policy documents and disclosures
- Government and regulatory sources like the IRS, the Department of Labor, and state agencies, especially for tax forms, overtime, final-paycheck law, and unemployment
- Documented, real-world employee experience of how these systems behave day to day
- Clearly labeled examples and estimates when we show how something works
Sometimes a company’s policy on paper and the policy employees live with are two different things. When that happens, we tell you both.
A note on accuracy and timing
Workplace policies change constantly, often with little warning. Discounts get expanded one year and cut the next. Paid holidays disappear. Portals get renamed. Whole benefits programs get restructured when a company is bought or starts closing stores. Several employers we cover are mid-transition right now.
That’s why we date our articles and update them as things change. Even so, the company itself is always the final word on its own current policy. For anything with a deadline or a dollar figure attached, a tax form, an enrollment window, a final paycheck, please confirm the details directly with your employer, the relevant portal, or the right government agency before you act on them.
This isn’t professional advice
WorksPerk publishes general information. We are not a law firm, a tax preparer, an accountant, or a financial advisor, and nothing here is legal, tax, or financial advice. Employment law and final-paycheck rules differ by state, tax situations differ by person, and benefits eligibility depends on your own circumstances.
For decisions that carry legal or financial weight, talk to a qualified professional or the appropriate government agency. We’ll explain how it works and point you toward the right people, but the actual decision should be yours, made with proper advice behind it.
How we make money
WorksPerk is free to read, and we keep it that way mainly through advertising, including Google AdSense. Those ads help pay for the research and writing.
Ads never buy favorable coverage. The advertising that appears on a page has no bearing on what we write, and our editorial team makes its calls independently of any advertiser. If that ever changes and we run sponsored or affiliate content, we’ll label it clearly so you always know what you’re reading.
Updates and corrections
We review and update articles regularly to keep up with policy changes. When we make a meaningful update, we may change the publication date and note what’s different.
If you find something wrong or out of date, tell us. We’d rather fix an error than defend it, and we correct confirmed mistakes as fast as we can. You can reach us through our contact page.
Transparency and disclosure
When an article gives an estimate, an assumption, or a worked example instead of an official figure, we say so. We steer clear of fear-based framing, exaggerated claims, and filler that wastes your time. When we’re not sure about something, we’d rather tell you to verify it than present a guess as a fact.
Reader trust
People usually find WorksPerk in the middle of a stressful moment. They’ve quit or been let go, lost access to a portal, or can’t get a straight answer from anyone. Earning that trust is simple to say and harder to do: be accurate, be honest, and don’t talk down to anybody. That’s the bar.
If you have a question about how we work, or a concern to raise, please visit our contact page.