Thread regarding ADP layoffs

Carlos Rodriquez decisions have directly hurt ADP's financial bottom line. His decisions have directly and irrevocably damaged ADP's reputation and client satisfaction. His leadership has destroyed the knowledge base and reason ADP had been successful through the years. Carlos has undoubtedly set the course of ADP to be a non stop downslide for years to come.

Clearly it is time to replace the CEO of this company. He has down almost everything wrong and his judgement is very bad. The board needs to take action now and replace him before the stock is back below $100.

GFY

Thank you, not thanks.

The only few tech folks are overwhelmed and barely missed the VERP, they’re in charge of a staff that is incompetent. It’s bad gang, and I was previously optimistic. Bless those few that remain and carry the company, I’d names but that wouldn’t be right. Thanks you folks, glad I VERPED.

Because you have seriously bad IT employees now! You have terrible management. You have a mentally impaired CEO. You have a lot of reasons... pick any, pick all.

Here is my struggle, why do we not have one payroll platform? Why hasn't the new tax product rolled out to the entire company? Why do we have all of these different systems, interfaces, and platforms? If our goal is to simplify, why is ADP not doing do? This does not result in mass layoffs, instead you would have a stable environment to work, and not have to invest so much with all of the IT people pushing buttons. I think Ackerman would have look at this a bit more closely than CR is doing.

Maybe. Not sure I agree. If Ackman did layoffs I doubt it would have been as reckless as the current worthless CEO has done. In his prior endeavors he has valued real skills and not pushed people out because of them! Carlos nor his "leadership team" has the mental capacity to see through the immediate low hanging fruit in a slight cost reduction at the expense of any possible impacts to clients or the long term ramifications to the business. No doubt the current products, especially the "Nextgen products" are c-ap. The Nextgen payroll is arguably on par with a cheap excel spreadsheet and far more fragile. Smoke and mirrors and people peddling like hamsters to do almost everything manually behind the scenes for the illusion that it works. No, I truly believe Ackman would have been far better for the company than this lies and excuses and fallout that continues with the current CEO.

You are right that Ackman played them like a fiddle, but wrong in how he would have approached it. I listened to all of his broadcasts. He was advocating for a much smaller workforce, but also for much stronger product that required less service. He bought in cheap, pushed ADP to shrink/cheapen the workforce which drove the stock price up as profits increased. Then he got out, probably knowing from history that ADP is incapable of building products that work and don't require an army of people to bandaid and glue the c-ap together for clients. If he had won the proxy, he would have fixed the product issue, and advocated for buying Ceridian at the time. Dayforce is the real deal of a product, and ADP has the clients. Would have made for a good match. In either case, layoffs were part of both strategies.

There was a competition between the OneADP locations to see which location could earn the most Glassdoor reviews in a specific period of time. The winning location won something for the employees.

Ackman would have been laying off at a much faster pace.

So maybe all that stuff Ackman said about Carlos and the company... was true?

Truth is, and this is not paid for by any group or affiliation, Carlos Rodriquez is a horribly bad and ineffective CEO. He needs to be fire on the spot by the board! His policies and direction have severely hurt this company and thousands upon thousands of employees and the clients are suffering and leaving in large numbers as a result.

I can share from personal experience that ADP has driven internal marketing campaigns to ADP salespeople to provide positive reviews in regards to ADP on Glassdoor. Not only was it a push, it was tracked, recognized and those who refused were pressured to do so.

Glassdoor has paid for placements of company responses. That is true for any company on Glassdoor, though not every company has paid for responses. ADP has definitely tried to boolster the reviews on Glassdoor to avoid the truth about it's practices.

Regardless, do your own homework. ADP has turned into an awful environment in which to work. The management at most all levels is horrible and employees are treated extremely poorly. As I said, do your own homework.

Obviously, this forum is more accurate and not Glassdoor. The employees who have actually worked for ADP have the more solid picture of this company and its CEO.

Why does this forum have so many messages against Carlos whereas the Glassdoor has super high approval rates? Which one is accurate?

That company hasn’t had a good CEO since Josh Weston. He was the best. Once he retired it was all downhill after that. I knew something was up when they brought in a bunch of foreigners as execs who didnt know their a– from a hole in the wall.