Heroic Payroll Fails – # 1 – The Queensland Health Fiasco

Today we are starting a new series of posts dedicated to heroic payroll fails. We will review some of the most disastrous payroll implementations in recent years. Each of them is unique, either through the scope of the failure or the scope of the consequences.

Let’s take a look at the Queensland Health System (QHS) which provides public healthcare services to Australia's Queensland province. The heroic payroll failure impacted over 65,000 workers in 16 hospitals and saw its cost explode, being multiplied 174 times from 6.9 Million AUD to 1.2 Billion AUD.

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