This happens a lot: I apply for a job and they ask for my complete address. Why? I would understand if they just want to know what city/town I’m in: That has bearing on how easily I can get to the office.
But why do they need to know my street address?
The only thing I can think: Indeed/LinkedIn/take-your-pick is building a profile of me based on this info, using my street as a proxy for my income, credit score, or, ultimately, for my social class.
From now on, when they ask me, I’m just going to put a rich person’s address. For this one I used a Brooklyn townhouse where Maggie Gyllenhaal and one of the Saarsgaards lives.
It could be innocuous, but the paranoid brain I have leads me to believe it’s so they can attampt a background check based on where you live.
“maybe we don’t want to hire someone from that neighborhood”
To mail you shit…? Out of all the things an employer can ask, your address is one of the least shady. 🤨
If I was employed by the employer, 100% they’ll get the address. This is for an APPLICATION. That you don’t even know for sure is the actual company. I hope people aren’t just giving their address out to any faceless “person” on the Internet that asks.
Answer: taxes, actually. If you become an employee, your actual address is needed to ensure taxes are taken appropriately. This is true especially in work from home situations.
That “if” at the beginning of your second sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. OPs whole point is why they need this before they hire them. Of course they’ll need it after they’re hired, no one is questioning that, so your comment is irrelevant
So they can mail you things? I understand that most things can and are done digitally, it’s still very common to mail things to prospective employees. Contracts hiring them, for instance.
Or, in your case, if they’re a classy employer, a letter denying your application.
To send you tax information, mostly. This is a stupid thing to be mad about.
I feel like you missed that this is on a job application, not an offer letter. Unless I’m actually hired and get paid by you, you aren’t going to send me tax documents so you don’t need my address.
