Thread regarding ADP layoffs

ADP is Cutting Its Labor Costs With Diastrous Results

ADP has been on a several year quest to dramatically reduce its labor costs. This company is in the process of eliminating almost all of its employees who they feel are earning too much money and replacing them with workers who are earning about a third of the veteran, experienced employees that were/are being let go.

Unfortunately, this plan was not well thought out and is causing incredible problems for ADP. With so many experienced employees being pushed out, the knowledge base has deteriorated greatly, causing the new low-cost employees who have replaced/are replacing the terminated/to be terminated employees unable to properly service ADPs clients.

This disaster should have been foreseen by ADPs top management team, who are paid big bucks to know their company inside and out. Due to the complexity of ADPs systems, it takes new employees several years to be truly productive. A new employee fresh off the street cannot master the new systems quickly no matter how extensive ADPs training programs are to orient the new employee. Apparently, the top management team had no clue about this, which every ADP employee or lower level manager with several years of experience knows, and has fatally cut their company's knowledge base to the bone.

The result is that low paid ADP novices are trying to frantically service their company's clients, trying to learn on the fly, putting in overtime hours at night and on the weekends and/or giving up and leaving for better jobs where the wages are greater and the work is easier.

An unbelievable disaster!

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You really have to go back to the Josh Weston (CEO) days to find intelligent upper management decisions. Everything after Josh, you would swear that they were purposely trying to drive ADP into the ground. I watched as all these foreign, Havard and Yale MBA types (all buddies with existing upper management) were brought in claiming to be seasoned experts from other tech companies. They would try things that were attempted in prior years and were complete failures and claim that it failed because THEY weren't managing it back then. HUGE egos. Then they would hire their outside consultant buddies and pay them a half million to come up with another plan. When that plan failed, they'd blame the consultant not themselves. I've never seen a company change directions so many times in mid stream and never finish what it started. Got to the point where no one really put much work or effort into the new "plan" because you knew in a month or two it would be sc-apped in favor of another newer pie-in-the-sky one. I'm convinced the company got infiltrated with the goal of destroying it from within.

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If you think it's bad now, June 1st and the upcoming August 3rd discharge of retirees were just to make room over at 1 ADP, come October 5th 60% of those that took the ERP are out of here!

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This disaster will be studied by future business students as a case study of what not to do.

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Post ID: @2yet+TY5kOAj

This one will eventually go down in the history books as one of the greatest management screw ups ever!

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