Not sure if this will get read by the cronies at ADP (meaning Sr. Leadership) but here are my thoughts. Since RTO happened the cases of COVID continue to spike in the office. Many people have been A symptomatic and have caused illness to spread in the tight working quarters. The office has become a petri dish for the spread and many employees are frightened to come in. Does that stop the RTO, nope. IF ADP Sr. Leadership cared one smidge about their employees they would allow remote working, instead they force people to come in to maintain their jobs. While many associates have started looking for full time remote, the attrition is horrible, and it is a revolving door. The majority of the complaining is around the need to come in when our productivity remained high. If the managers can't manage remote associates, replace the managers and allow the associates to remain safely at home. But it is ADP, all talk about the caring for associates but when the reality sets in, they want you in the office where the managers can watch you. SMH.
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Life goes on you guys are all being fooled by the fear mongering. Covid is never going to go away so we’re just supposed to hide anytime someone has a case? Big deal life goes on. Your precious masks and vaccine mandates didn’t work liberals.
One has to wonder where they are putting all these people.
IIRC when I still worked there (from home), they were all into "home-shoring" to the extent that ADP went from five buildings in Roseland to one-and-a-half.
One ADP was reconfigured into an "open plan" cube-farm. Not long before I left, the "guest cubicles" had been completely filled up with permanent occupants, so when we'd go into the office on occasion and needed space to work, we'd have to illicitly occupy one of the "breakout" spaces... at least those that hadn't been taken over for managers and directors.
I wonder what they're doing with folks like me, where the ADP office near my home closed after my role became homeshored.
Read an article the other day about returning to the office. The majority of employees are only opposed to said return as it offers no value. The excuses of team meetings and face to face interaction etc is over ruled by the simple fact the employees proved they could work from home and accomplish the same amount of work and in some cases they could accomplish more work.
This return to work issue is being pushed by Supers and Mgrs who have nothing better to do. They want to feel directly "involved" with employees when the fact is the employee can go it alone with minimal involvement from Management.
There you have it.
People who successfully and productively worked from home for over a decade or more before Covid being told to go back to offices is silly. It’s not whining to have feelings about a substantive change being made without added value. Add Covid to the mix and it’s just another factor that doesn’t make sense. If you report that family members in your home have Covid, they tell you to still report in person until and unless you test positive yourself. No mask mandate either. Just recommended. Knowing that and knowing anyone in that office could be in that same situation just reiterates a lack of concern for employees health. Just disappointing from a company that used to treat their employees as a valued asset not too long ago.
If you're browsing these forums; it should be abundantly clear to you what this company is and how it operates! Venting frustration is totally understandable!
Do understand that ADP has been this way for a LONG time and will continue to operate in this fashion for the foreseeable future (agnostic of who the CEO is).
It's like you're in a bad relationship but chose to stay ..and then whine and complain (I'm in the same boat as you) Look up the definition of Insanity ........
Enjoy the Journey and if they fire you; they fire you! Whatever, you will get another job!
This company does not reflect on your character (no company should, ever!)
As for ADP leadership, they don give a s#$t! about you! As a HCM company they have the justifiable data and will sell it to other companies but will not consume it themselves because they have a well established business model they are sticking with (they don't care what employees are demanding ....that stuff is for others companies to listen to and follow ..LOL). No wonder ADP is short 8-9K FTEs (We're an HCM company, that offers PEO/RPO to other companies --what a joke! -LMAO!).
Carlos is a BS artist, don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth!
Wanting to work from home is being a crybaby? But ADP management wants to facilitate and empower employees to work the best way possible, doesn't it? Oh, wait, it doesn't. Employees are not trusted to work from home, yeah forgot about that. Sorry.
I guess that ADP will only be able to attract below average employees who have less options and who have to knuckle under ADP's toxic management, while above average and top performing employees will choose to work for companies that value and trust their workforces, providing superior ways of working and attracting top talent.
You ADP malcontents will work from the office as instructed or be canned. The excuses from your crybabies are falling on deaf ears now GET TO WORK!!
Covid is just an excuse now. It’s never going to go away so we’re just supposed to hide from this virus forever? Plus everyone complaining about being in the office probably go out all the time. If you don’t like it find another job.
YOU are already being watched! They have software (Aternity) deployed on every laptop that monitors usage, timings etc.
ADP is one of the WORST slave labor companies out there. Of course, you don't realize that until you LEAVE.
Exactly correct. Certainly ADP does not care about its employees, despite the rhetoric about being for them. And yes, management wants employees to work from the office where they can be watched, since employees cannot be trusted to do any work from home, despite any metrics that would say otherwise.
When I used to work for ADP, well before COVID, employees were expected to come into the office no matter how sick they were since "there is a lot of work to do". As for infecting others? That doesn't matter because any other employees that get sick still have to come in, just like the first sick employee. There was always a lot to do, and if people got sick and tried to take a day or two off, there was always hel* to pay when they got back. A wonderful company to work for. Actually NOT.