Tech company collapses with Sydney and Melbourne offices closing
Tech company collapses as offices in Sydney and Melbourne close
- The tech company collapsed
- Half of the staff leaves within the year
An Australian tech company has collapsed after half its staff left within a year.
D635 Group has gone into liquidation with the closure of its offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
The company built software for healthcare, real estate and accounting services.
Many disgruntled workers had claimed that their pension and final salaries had not been paid.
A senior employee had emailed 30 staff warning them to ‘get out’ while they could in July last year. news.com.au reported.
‘Please check to make sure you are: Being paid super, your end of year tax has been paid and you can file your tax returns. Use all of your vacation as soon as possible,” the email said.
Group D635 has gone into liquidation. A senior employee had emailed 30 staff warning them to ‘get out’ while they could in July last year
“Get out while you can.”
The Federal Court had ordered the company into liquidation on Friday with creditors required to contact William Honner and Andrew Scott of accountancy firm PwC.
David Wakeman is a former employee who claims he was underpaid by the company.
He resigned at the end of 2021 and claims he is owed $45,000.
Sarah MacRae runs a disability services agency known as 24/7 Care Services and engaged with D365 Group to create a booking and payment system for her business.
The D365 group began building the platform in August last year and presented it to Ms MacRae in June – eight months after it was supposed to be ready.
Ms MacRae had taken out a $55,000 loan for the system which she claims is faulty and unusable.
As well as $55,000, Ms MacRae agreed that the system would then cost $1,500 a month to run.
“It’s hard when you’re paying $1,500 a month for a program you can’t use,” she told the publication.
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