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Last week CrowdStrike’s global IT outage crippled airlines, banks, and healthcare systems, becoming the world’s largest-ever IT failure. Terminals and computer monitors at workplaces across the planet donned the infamous “blue screen of death,” and some payroll admins and HR pros were sent scrambling to make sure employees were paid.
Fran Williams, the senior product director of payroll and managed services at the UK-based IRIS Software Group, told HR Brew that outage was especially difficult for smaller companies with limited personnel who touch payroll systems, those with smaller budgets, or those with older, on-premise payroll solutions.
The Crowdstrike outage served as an