Virtually ALL locations will be closed and the employees at those locations eliminated. Only the new offices will remain such as Norfolk, Maitland, El Paso, etc. and will be staffed by new employees being paid far less than the eliminated. This will take about a year or two to complete.
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This is directed to the 2 post below (both of you are correct).
Of course 'not all current offices will be closed' WHY you may ask - because of Operations! But only the largest of those will remain; let's say maybe 4 will remain in the next 12-16 months. WHY you ask again - because more and more clients have been encouraged to turn off paper or go paperless. With in 2 years maybe 2 will remain as backup to having the Operations outsourced to 3rd party company. WHY YOU ASK AGAIN - by then clearly 75% of existing clients will be paperless and 90% of new sales going paperless. This will save money by not having to have pay associates-hardware cost-building cost-associate benefits long term-liabilities and so on. Those Operation centers that remain open will house CS and other groups as well.
But the fact is 70% percent of offices that were open 5 years ago will be closed due to consolidation or closure. So the trolls that say 'nothing to worry about' it's all in good hands - I have a bridge to sell you! I see it everyday at my office, associates not happy and just want the truth not spin.
The main post said that "virtually" all ADP offices were going to be closed. This means most but not all. Certainly some offices will remain, but not many. Which ones remain open is only known in ADP'S highest management.
What has been communicated is not a rumor. The hundreds of ADP associates that have been laid off certainly have been affected, and how. Based on the sheer volume of layoffs that have occurred at ADP since early 2016, something unprecedented is going on, even if there is no other information on it (but there is).
Of course, not 100% of ADP'S associates are going to be replaced by cheap workers, but a vast majority will be. New ADP associates will NOT be allowed to work from home.
Some of the employees that are being laid off ARE getting severance packages, others (more current) are not and are being told they are not productive enough. But being laid off hurts even with a severance package. Some of my former colleagues who were laid off were given 60 day notices (some even more time), but they were still laid off. Some have since found jobs, others have not.
The original poster got it right. Current ADP associates, just be careful and be prepared for any eventuality.
The information in the main post is incorrect.
While the main HUB locations will be the main locations for most of ADP, a large portion of the current offices will remain open as well. The offices that are being closed are offices that are out of date and are at less than full capacity. A lot of ADP offices are at full capacity to the point of needing home shored employees, and of the offices that are closing (if you fit the qualifications), a large portion of the employees are being offered severance packages or the option to work from home.
Of the people that have been given 60 day notices, there were large severance packages tacked on to the date of termination.
Please get your facts straight before you spread rumors.
It DID happen.
Check the records it happened.
Yes, having worked at ADP, I remember the Super Centers talk. However, the intent was to offer relocation packages to the experienced and talented associates so that they could be moved along with the jobs, or at the very least have them work from home. The plan now is for the jobs to be moved to the new centers, but those veteran associates are being thrown out of those jobs onto the street. Well done, ADP! :-(
The Goal was to have Super Centers and not all the small offices. Super centers have been an ADP dream for a very long time. Talk of Super centers have been around for 20 year.
ADP management has a two-fold purpose behind the office closings. First, management has decided that their employees earn too much money, and are replacing experienced workers with cheap, inexperienced lower paid employees. Second, management does not want their employees to work from different offices strung all over the place. They want just a few centralized locations where all workers can be congregated. In addition, they don't want their employees working from home any more. This was explained in an ADP meeting in November 2015 that I attended. They said that the Baby Boomer generation was retiring in great numbers and that the new Millennial generation workers were entering the work force. In rather nice and obtuse language, it was explained that many of the new workers did not have a great work ethic. So to "help" the new employees to perform their labors in an optimum manner, they would have to work from a central office where they could be watched and "cajoled" into working in a proper manner. While Baby Boomers could be trusted to work from home, Millennials could not be trusted to do so. So no more working from home.
As to the proof that this is happening, we only have to look at the layoff picture and the new ADP offices being secured and opened within the last few months. ADP has always had layoffs every 2 to 3 years. However, since early 2016, these layoffs have dramatically accelerated. The number of people that were laid off in the last year has been staggering. ADP has cut its workforce in an unprecedented manner. So many people have been thrown out, that there is a danger that the people still left will not be able to adequately service clients and keep the company going.
At first, it seemed that ADP was aiming to go out of business, until it acquired some new offices in Norfolk Virginia, Maitland Florida, and most recently Tempe Arizona. If you check for ADP jobs at those locations on Glassdoor.com and Indeed.com, and sign up for their job alerts, you will see a lot of jobs generated there almost daily. A veritable flood of jobs, and where the proposed salaries are shown, at rather low rates. In addition, do a google search for "ADP Norfolk", "ADP Maitland", and "ADP Tempe" and check out the news stories as to why ADP opened those locations.
Putting these facts together, it can be seen that the aim of ADP is not to lay off most of its workers and then go out of business, but rather replace them with new, younger Millennial workers who will not work from home, but from central offices where Big Brother can watch over them and "motivate" them to come in to work on time, to work in an acceptable manner (put in many overtime hours), and be as productive as possible.
ADP filed some paperwork with the SEC stating it's financial plans and requirements in 2016. In these plans, a reorganization was mentioned that it would be completed no later than the middle of 2018. Thus by that time, all the experienced, high paid employees would have been laid off and have been replaced by the cheap employees working from the now fully operational offices.
It is most likely that anyone still working for ADP (who has not been hired within the last few months at one of the new locations) will be terminated either this year, or no later than the middle of next year. I have also heard that the latest ADP associates who have been terminated, no longer get severance packages, but are instead FIRED for "not being productive enough".
I wish the remaining associates at ADP the best of luck weathering this storm.
How do you know this is the plan? Closures are happening all across ADP but how are you sure that only these 5 locations will remain open and all others closed?