State of Iowa told no, you can’t use $21m coronavirus federal aid to help fund your $52m Workday roll-out In a warning to all those inclined towards budgetary imagination when finding funds for their next IT project, heed the lessons that are currently being learnt in a certain corner of the midwestern US. The state of Iowa has been told it cannot pay for a Workday HR and finance roll-out with funds shifted from its $1.25bn …
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I know so many cases the the bribe, sorry, community funding, that house builders have to give when chucking up new estates have gone missing into council budget. So much so a charity I worked for and several others, threatened to take them to court.
Amazingly a very well known MP suddenly put pressure on the council to release the funds. Up to that point he had no interest.
the flipside is that central government ring-fences so much of it's finding to ensure its priorities are funded that local government often find itself with plenty of money but unable to use it for what is actually needed. Then the creative accounting starts, often out of desperation.
That higher figure includes staffing costs and is over 5 years. Elsewhere in the article they mention $21m as being the cost.
From a know-nothing outsiders point of view, it seems expensive - I'd have thought that, with every business needing payroll software, it would be quite cheap for what you get.
Maybe the difference is simply expenses? You know, business jet lease, luxury hotels, expensive restaurants, escort services, exclusive golf course subscriptions, a short 2-month vacation to some tropical paradise for the family, well, the little things one needs to survive the work pressure...
Sounds like there are federal and/or state laws dictating how funding is provided and spent. If you apply for emergency funding, it has to be spent on the emergency you applied under.
Otherwise you could have a state governor with an unpopular and unfunded pet project, siphoning funds from other funded projects to pay for it. Budget accountability, transparency, misappropriation of funds and all that.
My last organisation has used it since 2012 and it has been transformational (in a good way). There was some pushback to it from some managers, but this was mostly because of Workday’s excellent security and auditing. Basically, you can’t hide stuff you should have done, but didn’t.
I recommend that anyone considering and new HR/Finance system includes them in they evaluation list.
I retired four years ago so have no axe to grind here.
I really fail to see why there's such a fuss about the availability of COBOL programmers. It's not a difficult language to learn if you're a English speaker, and the formatting rules are no worse than PHP's whitespace significant syntax. The "shortage" says more about what managers think programmers should cost than finding the talent.
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