Homeshored workers should be concerned of being let go without notice. This has happened to several employees already over the last several years.
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If you are assigned an office space--desk, phone, etc., you are NOT a remote/homeshored worker, although you may work remotely (through VPN access ocassionally). This has been an area of confusion for quite some time. Homeshored is an "out of office completely" status--no assigned space within an office.
Muhammad - he sounds like a genius! Promote that turd!
At some point one of the VP Muhammad threw out a number saying the goal was 10% of the force working from home/remote but didn't say what the current number was at.
Yes, there still are a lot of ADP associates working out of their homes. But working from home is being phased out at ADP. It is a work in progress and there will soon be no one working from home.
Like the employees who earn too much money and are being replaced by cheap labor, you can't get rid of them all at once. This has been going on since 2011. You have to do this gradually so that the disruption is minimized. It is the same with eliminating home based workers.
Anyone can see if you are home shored. It says 'home office' right on your eCard in the associate portal. There are still many developers, many client support people and many sales staff who work out of their house. I don't know anyone in the areas mentioned above who were given the ultimatum to work in an office or be fired.
I agree this trying to eliminate remote workers is such a joke but it goes right along with all the other fads I’ve seen over the many years I was with ADP. It’s all based on who’s in charge at the moment and all of their bright ideas about how to make things better. I’ve see so many senior leaders come and go over the years and come to realize there are no new ideas. Just a lot of old ones that have been recycled over the years. They may call them something else using the latest buzz words but under the covers nothing is really new. You realize this after being around for a long time. I would always say “we did that 5, 10 or 15 years ago they just have a fancy new name for it now!”. Really gets old after a while 😊
One thing kilks me is 10+ years ago it was the trend to allow work from home. Now the companies are pulling away from that (thank you IBM). I have to guess in another few years the companies will circle back to offering work from home again because so many companies will be competing for talent. Such a joke.
Agree, following the IBM model. It's a super quick way of forcing people out knowing that many will not be able to go to an office. Have seen other companies do that as well. They no sooner do that, then start cutting away at locations. It's usually the beginning of the end when you see it happen.
It used to be that all sales people were homeshored.
Thats right. They are copying the IBM model: go into an actual office or lose your job. They dont want remote workers anymore. They cant eliminate everyone at once. They do all these layoffs in phases for obvious reasons.
WOW! That really s---s. I have worked remote for 8 years and made my decision not to return to NJ and had to let HR know by DEC 1st. They told me about this deadline back in the first week of April. At least they gave me 8 months to decide. I feel bad for those simply given no notice at all....that is so unfair. I started in 1990 for a company called ADP.....this is not ADP anymore.
BTW....if anyone who works remote thinks they don't have to decide, they are sadly mistaken.
Yes, I was a remote worker and I was let go without any warning.
Right. And what is even more eerie is most teams only know within their own group who their remote workers are. Its a mystery to others. So when remote workers are let go, its not even really known or maybe even noticed because they don't come into an office at all.