2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

All Content > News Analysis > New England

Awarded to

Patrick Thibodeau, reporter; Nicole Laskowski, news director; Jessica Primavera, news production editor

Entry details

MyPayrollHR collapse stirs allegations, questions, anger

Issue or publication date: Sept. 10, 2019
Publication name: SearchHRSoftware
Publishing company: TechTarget
Website home page: https://searchhrsoftware.techtarget.com/

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

SearchHRSoftware's mission is to provide the strategic guidance HR managers need to make good technology investment decisions. That includes keeping HR managers informed about major issues and trends in HR and how technology may help to drive results.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

MyPayrollHR was a respected payroll processing company and well-liked by its customers -- until some $26 million in payrolls vanished as a result of a fraud. This story explains what happened: The human impact and the dramatic scramble by employers to get employees their money. The story was reported on and written in one day. It includes several interviews with employers directly impacted, as well as an exclusive interview with the payroll clearing house that triggered pay reversals out of employee accounts. The story captures the anxiety, confusion and struggle to respond to the loss of paychecks. A screen shot of an employee account with a negative balance of nearly $1 million provided a powerful illustration of an out-of-control process. The story was widely linked and was the most comprehensive and detailed piece about this crime.

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https://searchhrsoftware.techtarget.com/news/252470457/MyPayrollHR-collapse-stirs-allegations-questions-anger

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