EXHIBIT 99.1

Investor Contact:
Steven E. Klei
Senior Vice President, Finance
Chief Financial Officer
(925) 737-3110

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

             PROBUSINESS SERVICES ACQUIRES CONDUIT SOFTWARE

   EXPANDS EARLY LEADERSHIP POSITION IN WEB DELIVERY OF EMPLOYEE SERVICES

Pleasanton, Calif.--April 27, 1999--ProBusiness Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRBZ),
a leading provider of outsourced employee administrative services for large 
employers nationwide, today announced it has acquired Conduit Software.  
Based outside Atlanta, Conduit is a leading supplier of employee relationship 
management (ERM) applications, which automate business processes among 
employees, managers, and third parties. The acquisition will enable 
ProBusiness to deliver a broad set of workflow-based, Web-delivered 
applications coupled with ProBusiness's proven outsourced services.

"This acquisition dramatically expands the market opportunity for 
ProBusiness," observed Tom Sinton, chairman, president and chief executive 
officer.  "We currently provide services primarily targeted at automating 
business processes for the Payroll and Human Resource departments--an 
attractive market, but representing only one department within our clients 
business, about 2% of our clients' employees.  With Conduit, we gain the 
ability to expand the range of business processes we automate to include the 
entire employee base impacting the remaining 98% of the employees.  We 
believe these services will offer clients compelling economic benefits, along 
with more satisfied employees.  For ProBusiness, this represents a 
substantial revenue opportunity, as well as a tool for further competitive 
differentiation." 

Conduit President and Chief Executive Officer, Tom Clements agrees.  "Over 
the past two years, we've seen this market develop from a dream within Human 
Resource departments to a reality.  By joining forces with a leader in the 
delivery of complementary services, we will now have the ability to bring an 
integrated solution to market, based on the most advanced technology.  That's 
an exciting proposition, and we're delighted to be part of the ProBusiness 
team."

Under the terms of the agreement, ProBusiness issued approximately 1.8 
million shares of common stock in the acquisition, which will be accounted 
for as a pooling-of-interests transaction.  ProBusiness anticipates it will 
record one-time charges in connection with the acquisition of approximately 
$3.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 1999.  The 50 members of 
Conduit's staff will remain in the Atlanta area as ProBusiness employees, 
with Tom Clements, president and chief executive officer of Conduit Software, 
becoming vice president of Employee Self-Service Division and reporting to 
Tom Sinton, president and chief executive officer of ProBusiness.

THIS NEWS RELEASE CONTAINS FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS.  ACTUAL RESULTS COULD 
DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THOSE PROJECTED IN THESE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AS 
A RESULT OF, AMONG OTHER THINGS, CONTINUED CLIENT ACQUISITION COSTS INCURRED 
IN ADVANCE OF REVENUES, INVESTMENTS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, EXPANSION OF 
SALES EFFORTS AND OPERATIONS TO NEW GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS, EXPANSION OF NEW AND 
EXISTING SERVICES, INVESTMENT IN MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THE 
COMPANY'S EXPECTED GROWTH, THE INITIATION, COMPLETION OR INTEGRATION OF ANY 
STRATEGIC ACQUISITION, THE NUMBER AND SIZE OF NEW CLIENTS STARTING SERVICES, 
A DELAY OR CANCELLATION OF CLIENT SERVICES, INTEREST RATE FLUCTUATIONS, 
SEASONALITY AND COMPETITION.  REFER TO OUR PUBLIC FILINGS WITH THE SECURITIES 
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION FOR ADDITIONAL FACTORS WHICH COULD MAKE ACTUAL 
RESULTS DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THOSE PROJECTED IN FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS.



ABOUT PROBUSINESS SERVICES, INC.

Founded in 1984, ProBusiness provides outsourced payroll processing, payroll 
tax and benefits administration services, as well as human resources 
software, to large employers within diverse industries.  Leveraging a unique 
PC-based solution, ProBusiness's services can work standalone or together, 
offering clients flexibility and high levels of control over their employee 
administrative processes.  In 1998, ProBusiness was named one of the fastest 
growing technology companies in Deloitte & Touche's "Technology Fast 500" 
Program and Silicon Valley's top 50 technology companies.  Recently, BLOOMBERG 
MAGAZINE named ProBusiness to its list of Top 100 Stock Picks in 1998.

The Company has more than 1,750 clients and approximately 750 employees, with 
headquarters in Pleasanton, Calif. and regional offices in Bridgewater, NJ, 
Irvine, CA, Bellevue, WA and Norcross, GA.  The ProBusiness World Wide Web 
site can be accessed at http://www.probusiness.com.  ProBusiness shares trade 
on NASDAQ under the symbol PRBZ.

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