That’s what should have been done. Unfortunately they did not upgrade to even mid-size legacy architecture.
The system need a total swap-out. Then my soon-to-be-former-boss announced was their solution.
Thanks for bringing that up after I resigned. Yeah, I would have helped. They weren’t going to allow it.
I spent over an hour then, on the phone, with their new CEO (he started the day before me) telling him all the things that were wrong at that local operation. I guarantee you he would have never learned about it, otherwise.
[announced this was to be their new solution]
Never brought up to me, never offered to me, never presented to me as a possible solution. I would have been 100% on board.
When I asked the CEO why they were still processing payroll, across multiple states, he gave me an emphatic “YEAH!” seeing how that should have been outsourced long ago.