I am in the same boat.  I can't believe there is not a work around, or a way for Quickbooks help personnel to add the employee for me or even a message from Quickbooks saying "I am sorry for your inconvenience, we appreciate your patience while we address this issue" but instead THEY JUST ARE TRYING TO SELL ME MORE EXPENSIVE SERVICES.  I am about out of patience.   This can't be that complicated to fix, it is affecting my productivity, so I can only assume they really don't care about my business efficiency since they seem to be able to provide all kinds of other software updates they want to charge me for.