Soon - ADP’s biggest inside sales center in Allentown

They are opening a new center next September and moving a 850 people there. In addition:

"Then we’ll hire up from there,” said Bill Crawford, senior vice president of sales at Roseland, N.J., ADP. Crawford said the space ADP is leasing at Five City Center — the company is taking the top 10 floors, or 243,241 square feet — can house up to 1,600 employees, though he couldn’t provide a timeline for when the company could hit that mark.

”The building doesn’t open for a year, so I can’t prognosticate what’s going to happen, other than we’re consolidating to a building that can house many more people for a reason,” Crawford said.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's good that ADP wants to gradually hire new people in Allentown. I just hope that by “consolidating” Crawford means literary transferring people to a new office space and nothing else.

But given ADP’s practices of firing experienced workers and hiring newcomers, would not be surprised if somewhere in a process some of the older workers get the short end of the stick

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Yeah I believe any non mgmt employee making over $35,000 plus in the pendion group is too expensive to ADP. So they want to pay cheap labor and NO pension!!!

You can bet the farm they are not going to keep any sales rep making over 60 grand per year. That is to high of a salary in the eyes of the company.

Pay ranges can be supplied. At my location with about 200 employees the range was from around $60K to 120K. Most of the newly hired employees in Norfolk and Maitland who replaced almost all of the 200 employees are making 36K, a few at 52K.

ADP wants to drastically cut its labor costs. That's why it decided that its employees are "overpaid". Then there is the overseas outsourcing which further cuts labor costs.

I keep hearing the term "overpaid", but no one can specify what that pay range is or where it begins. Is it over $60k, $70k, $80k or $100k+?

Those let go thru layoffs have been from all ranges. How do you know they were let go because they were overpaid?

Sounds like more cuts have to be made in order to pay for this new supercenter. Geesh. This company is a nightmare.

Mgmt does not care.

Totally agree getting rid of knowledgeable employees will definitely hurt ADP

This is old news which was announced back in June. The plan is to hire rather than move in ADPers from other locations, although management may move some in. Of course they are being enigmatic about it. The plan will probably follow the other new "megacenters" that recently opened such as El Paso, Maitland, and Norfolk. So there will be more layoffs and new cheap replacements for the laid off "overpaid" employees. Sounds like more opportunities are going to open up for people who love to work hard with no work/life balance and be grossly underpaid for the work that they will be doing.

It's like pushing down on the car's accelerator to go faster while there is a serious leak in the gas tank. The leak is the incredible hire-quit/fire-hire cycle at ADP where new employees are hired in, become disillusioned with the company or are not able to master the job and then leave or are fired, and then new people are hired and the same cycle repeats.

Apparently, ADP still won't address the serious issue of the brain drain that is going on with the elimination of the veteran knowledgable "overpaid" employees. What kind of a company voluntarily throws away its knowledge base? The consequences of this incredible mistake are already being felt by ADP.

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