2 posts tagged with "payroll"

A fortnight ago, payroll day looked like a small siege: three browser tabs, two spreadsheets, a half-eaten sandwich, and the kind of background dread that only comes from knowing eighty-five payslips depend on you not fat-fingering a column. This Monday, Ami ran the entire fortnight in twenty-five minutes (five hours) from a single page with eight buttons, hit Generate PDF, and walked off to make coffee while the system handed itself a finished report. page_payroll_2 is live -- and yes, the working title was earned.

This arc began with urgency. Deputy changed something in its HR side and the normal connectivity to Xero was no longer trustworthy, with payroll only a day away. Brett could have treated that as a narrow integration outage. Instead, he treated it as proof that the longer migration had to accelerate: if rostering and payroll were eventually meant to live in RABS, then the architecture could not keep pretending Deputy was a permanent system of record.