> Honestly, my main takeaway is I'm happy our company built everything (payroll and benefits) in-house from scratch. > We worry less about integrations issues,

> Honestly, my main takeaway is I'm happy our company built everything (payroll and benefits) in-house from scratch. > We worry less about integrations issues, and it helps with security when you have more control over everything. This is not a good take away. The same could be said for rolling your own cryptography — control + no integration — which is a really terrible idea. This doesn't validate your approach since the problem wasn't that a third party you were integrating with messed up your data. I understand why you wanted to build everything in house, but this isn't an example that validates your decision.