Wake Up Senior Leaders - Anonymous employee ADP Employee Review

1.0
May 17, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

many people are genuine, but the tools that used to be in place to build teams up no longer exists

Cons

lack of communication, work distribution is unequal and some people on teams carry the full burden, limited options to move to a different role unless you live in the current sweetheart cities, vacation time that you are not able to utilize unless you want to come back to a disaster, no work life balance because of the call volume during the day and working late nights/weekends

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ADP Response
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Thank you for sharing your important insights in the current changes within ADP. We appreciate the perspective and will share with our HR leaders.

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