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How the CrowdStrik Incident Impacted Global Payroll Operations Many Payroll professionals around the world either held their breath or began scrambling for alternatives as millions of computers failed to boot up on July 19 due to a glitch in a security software update.
Author: Michael Baer
The CrowdStrike software snafu meant for a time there was no access to many Payroll systems that used Microsoft Windows. Payroll may have successfully sent money to banks to ensure employees were paid on that day, but, in some instances, those deposits weren’t in employee accounts until later in the day.
Concern about not being able to continue processing pay reverberated across the worldwide Payroll community. Speaking to the UK’s Telegraph , the Global Payroll Association’s CEO, Melanie Pizzey, said she heard from “numerous clients already today who have been unable to access their
“Others logging on could not access their pay systems because their computers were displaying the ‘blue screen of death.”
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