In light of the coronavirus and the highly inexperienced lazy millenial workforce that this company has been replacing the talent with solely for money and age discrimination reasons, it seems like the ADP Supercenters are turning out to be one of the worst CEO blunders in this company's history! As people are refusing to come into the office I can see major client departures starting as a result much less due to the business environment and closing of small businesses due to market downturn. ADP will suffer greatly due to this. ADP has a very real problem and will soon have to take even more drastic action.
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Imagine for a moment ADP had not been laying off people making 120k + for a job that can and is being done by qualified and capable people for $60 and $75k. How much wider spread and rapid would layoffs be as this downturn takes hold.
people like to bad mouth millennials which I am not one but the truth is many of these people have limited skills and vast experience and the job is changing so you don’t need 10 years experience to do a good job because there is no documentation or 30 year old programs like easy pay anymore (in many units)
Does having experience help, yes of course. Does it mean you should be paid triple someone from the street ? No It doesn’t. Would I want my pay cut, f— no. Would I be mad bitter and upset if I got laid off, hell yes.
For those reading this and working at ADP still scared of the future. Focus on your skill growth and development and not just ADP focused. Get or finish your degree, get certified in new technology. Think beyond the end of the fiscal and never count on a corporation to keep you on cause you have been loyal. ANY corporation, small business etc.
I agree. Can't believe how many clients are leaving. There will be an aftershock for us. Gulp.
Disagree that ADP is fine. Easy words to say, but not the reality. With most of the talent gone, the inexperienced workers can't service the clients properly which is resulting in increasingly dissatisfied clients. This does affect the bottom line. Cash can't be pulled out of a hat like a magic trick. It must be earned. ADP is continually being hobbled by the poor management decisions made by throwing out the company's talent and knowledge base. This is now catching up.
ADP is fine, cash rich, probably swallow up smaller companies in HCM.
Unintended consequences to their benefit.
All my best.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Someone is paying attention! Yes, as all other companies layoff, reduce profits, go out of business, those effects directly affect ADP. Carlos Rodriquez has done such a horrible job is trusting the wrong crowd around him (and McKinsey) in getting rid of the talent (because of a few dollars) that ADP is now in a very very short time a really terrible spot. ADP's Supercenters are hotspots for contagens and they were staffed with new people without knowledge. Now they are "working" from home unsupervised and unable to be properly trained. Things things of course have major effects on clients who are under financially trying times already and this is a powder keg for ADP. Watch for Kathleen Winters and Carlos Rodriquez to start more of the spin. The truth is ADP is now a disaster in slow motion. Life is short, find somewhere better to work. ADP is now full of highly unethical management and Carlos and his cronies can go down with the ship!
More importantly: as a payroll company, aren’t we paid by EE? If there are cuts, layoffs and reduction in staff by all corona-impacted employers, doesn’t that reduce our company profit as well if we run their payrolls or HCM? Should we be worried about poor fiscal close numbers creating the need for cost control layoffs?
"One point. Not all millenials are lazy. Absolute statements are always bogus." … isn't your statement intended to be an absolute statement?
Definitely people were told to stay home. But after this crisis passes, that is another story. I doubt that ADP will deviate from its policy of eliminating Work From Home and having everyone working at the Supercenters.
With this crisis, ADP has to let people WFH. No choice there.
what are you talking about? people were told to stay home...
One point. Not all millenials are lazy. Absolute statements are always bogus.
No, certainly ADP does not value people's health. I remember that we had to come in even if we were sick. If we dared to call in sick, then people were harassed when they came in. "Is this project done? Is that project done?" And abrupt questions were asked to try to trip you up to reveal that you weren't sick, just playing sick or wanted a mental health day. You had to be careful and prepared to answer properly and quickly. Otherwise, #%$&^!
However, with this coronavirus, ADP would have to let people work from home to avoid looking bad publicly or invoking the government's wrath. I'm sure that when this crisis passes, ADP will go back to their old ways.
I work at one of these and people were told to work from home. I doubt that anyone that is refusing, as you say, to come in, that they are refusing to work when they are home. Sorry you are working at an office location where they dont seem to value your health, or the health of those around you. That's the real issue here.
"Win as One"
Carlos and no one else.
HR in the super centers is nonexistent. It doesn’t matter if your late, call out every Monday or need a week of bereavement whenever your neighbors goldfish dies,the only way to get fired is to swear at clients. But ADP has no problem letting go of the people not in super centers that made the company succeed decade after decade. Win as One? Yeah, right
Yes, this is a very serious problem for ADP. Very serious.
If it hits India while the US is in recovery though, those jobs will shift back to the US, but most likely via contracted vendors like Cognizant to provide companies with flexibility to hire and reduce as needed, very quickly.
My question is how will this affect the planned cut backs? Bad publicity for certain but I’d imagine that train has left the station and they’ll just put the usual spin on the situation.
Possible, depends on how our competitors are positioned.
When the virus hits India, ADP (and a lot of other companies) are going to take a big hit.