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EmploymentHero Outage History

Every past EmploymentHero outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 85 EmploymentHero outages since November 2021. The 37 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major May 7, 2026

May 2026: HR - Platform Outage

Detected May 7, 2026 8:48 AM UTC · Resolved May 8, 2026 9:37 AM UTC · Duration 1 day

EmploymentHero experienced a major platform outage affecting secure.employmenthero.com that lasted 24.8 hours. The incident began with system performance issues that escalated to a complete system outage, preventing users from accessing the HR platform. Engineers implemented a fix and monitored the system before fully resolving the incident.

Minor April 29, 2026

April 2026: Degraded Payroll Platform Performance

Detected Apr 29, 2026 6:47 AM UTC · Resolved May 1, 2026 4:26 AM UTC · Duration 2 days

EmploymentHero's payroll platform experienced significant performance degradation for 45.7 hours, causing users to encounter slow response times and general service issues. The technical team identified multiple contributing factors and implemented fixes to address the root causes. The incident was fully resolved after monitoring confirmed the fixes restored normal platform performance.

Minor April 13, 2026

April 2026: Payroll - A small number of NZ Pay runs stuck/not loading

Detected Apr 13, 2026 3:34 AM UTC · Resolved Apr 13, 2026 7:16 AM UTC · Duration about 4 hours

EmploymentHero experienced a payroll issue where pay runs were stuck or not loading for fewer than 10 New Zealand customers. Engineers investigated and worked to remediate the affected customers while preventing additional impact. The incident was resolved after 3.7 hours.

Major April 7, 2026

April 2026: HR > Payroll sync impacting expenses.

Detected Apr 7, 2026 7:28 AM UTC · Resolved Apr 7, 2026 9:35 PM UTC · Duration about 14 hours

EmploymentHero experienced a major incident where timesheet synchronization between HR and payroll systems failed for some customers, impacting expense processing. The issue affected secure.employmenthero.com and lasted 14.1 hours before engineers successfully mitigated and resolved the synchronization problem.

Major March 25, 2026

March 2026: HR - Error when accessing Asset Register

Detected Mar 25, 2026 1:03 AM UTC · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 3:06 AM UTC · Duration about 2 hours

EmploymentHero experienced a major incident where customers were unable to access the Asset Register feature on secure.employmenthero.com. Engineers identified and resolved the issue after 2.1 hours of investigation and remediation work.

Minor February 24, 2026

February 2026: HR - Timesheet editing - erroring under certain scenarios.

Detected Feb 24, 2026 7:07 AM UTC · Resolved Feb 24, 2026 8:45 AM UTC · Duration about 2 hours

EmploymentHero experienced a minor incident where some customers encountered errors when editing timesheets through the timesheet management page. The issue affected the secure.employmenthero.com platform for 1.6 hours. Engineers identified the root cause and deployed a fix to resolve the timesheet editing functionality.