Tech company collapses with Sydney and Melbourne offices closing

An Australian technology company has collapsed after half of its staff quit within a year.

D635 Group has gone into liquidation with its Sydney and Melbourne offices closing.

The company built software for health, real estate and accounting services.

Many disgruntled workers had claimed their superannuation and final wages had not been paid.

One senior worker 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 that you are: Getting paid super, End of year tax has been paid and you can do your tax returns. Use all of your holidays ASAP,’ the email read.

‘Get out while you can.’

The Federal Court had ordered the company enter liquidation on Friday with creditors urged to contact William Honner and Andrew Scott of accounting firm PwC.

David Wakeman is one former worker who claims he was underpaid by the company.

He quit at the end of 2021 and claims he’s owed $45,000.

Sarah MacRae runs a disability service agency known as 24/7 Care Services and engaged with D365 Group to create a booking and payment system for her business.

D365 Group started 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 the $55,000 Ms MacRae agreed the system would then cost $1,500 a month to run. 

‘It’s hard when you’re paying $1500 a month for a program you can’t use,’ she told the publication.

The company’s website states it’s completed more than 700 projects over the past 20 years.