Anyone else think it’s hysterical that ADP has been trying to eliminate remote associates but is now forced to make everyone work from home due to the virus? It’s cracking me up for sure.
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It would be great if personal pride motivated the ADP India workers to work well. When I was at ADP as an American on-shored worker, India turned over work where more than 90% of it had to be fixed or redone by American workers. This went on for years, but ADP stubbornly went on using then because they were "cheap".
@imkn+147fKUMR seems very bitter. Before I was eliminated I would work from home on occasion. Our presence and work was measured and accounted for. Perhaps there are jobs where people could coast, however most, especially where they use metrics, cannot be handled without putting in a full day's work. If nothing else, your personal pride should motivate you.
Can you even imagine if ADP India "Works from home"??? Good gawd, clients are unhappy now... if team India slacks off (i.e. "works) from home like most WFH do, can you even imagine how bad that exodus will be of clients?
ADP India is a joke. Horrible employees, but they are cheap!
The reason that ADP does not favor working from home is that it simply does not trust its employees to work from home. Can't see your employees? That means that they are not working. It's buts in seats that are important.
But what about performance based evaluation? On what employees accomplish rather than how long they sit at a desk? Answer: If they are working from home, then they are not working no matter how much they produce. Period. Working from home is a scam, period. Again, no matter how much they accomplish.
I would say of all the people I know that WFH even infrequently it is so highly abused they will never truly admit how they use the time for non-work activities: taking kids places, working in the yard, shopping at the mall, or any number of other personal errands. It is indeed a scam and those who are at work are usually left to cover the slack of those that "work" from home.
WFH is by in large a scam, mini vacation. A select few put a full day in.
Sorry if the truth hurts.
Truth is WFH employees are not near as productive. Period. Anyone saying otherwise is lying trying to justify their situation.
I am a WFH employee and I have been for 16 years I don't know what regions you are all from but we have never been able to get away with not doing our jobs our workload is too high. Plus they can tell if you are working or not. There are several dedicated WFH employees that do there jobs and now fear losing them every year.
ADP India has been slow to embrace remote work. That will have to change now, and it’s long overdue.
Most of the work that is done from home is easily trackable as to whether it is getting done or not. I worked from home 3 or 4 days a week the entire time I was at ADP. Never missed a deadline, all projects completed on time. That was true of our entire department. So no, it is not 90 to 95 percent, thats BS. Just because you would goof off given the chance doesn't mean the everybody else did or would. The company benefited from the homeshored by employees being more productive.
My last day after being laid off is 3/27. My boss asked me on 3/24 if I want to stay on till the end of June. I asked if it was for my benefit or ADP's he said both. My wife said that I should have suggested that ADP should have intercourse with its self. I just politely declined the offer.
On another topic, I wonder if I will be getting the $1000 for the corona virus that was promised to all employees since I am leaving in the middle of that pay cycle
India going on mandatory 21 day lockdown.
It comes from a lack of management/accountability when there are people who abuse their WFH situations. If employees are not held accountable - either in the office or WFH , it’s disaster anyway. WFH is something that needs/should be earned . It’s not a right upon hire. You have to demonstrate you can perform before a WFH opportunity should be granted. It’s not that difficult to see.
If Work From Home is/was being abused then why the f*** did ADP allow it in the first place? And this went on for years! Didn't they see it?
And when they said they wanted to increase "collaboration" when they decided to cancel WFH, they were lying? It really was a lack of trust?
When I worked for ADP, I worked from home for the last 2 years or so. But this didn't let me off the hook and allow me to splurge in personal activities. I had projects to do where every quarter hour had to be accounted for. Only so many hours were allocated to projects, so whether you worked from home or from the office, you had to run like a hamster in a wheel continually to get your work done.
So if WFH is not allowed now, is it because of lack of collaboration or a lack of trust?
I would say that 90-95% of those that work from home abuse it pretty severely. The work usually lags and quite often the people are even reachable because they are off doing things that are not work. ADP learned this the hard way and was in the process of eliminating it altogether. I don't expect work from home to exist once the majority of that coronavirus passes.
It’s hysterical ! I think it will be hard to not allow people to work remotely after this settles. It SHOULD shake out the underperformers only if management/leadership acts. WFH is great but has to be managed appropriately .
Unfortunately, this WFH is only temporary. Once the crisis passes then back to work at the centers.