Roseland, NJ, is only 20 miles west of New York City but, nestled in the rolling hills of the Garden State, it feels like a world away. Here, in a pleasantly manicured corporate campus lies the corporate headquarters for ADP, one of the world’s leading human resources and payroll processing companies. The building is an expansive representation of how it operates. Its wide, open spaces suggest a sense of breadth. Its glass-walled offices suggest transparency. Its multilingual signage nods to its operations in more than 100 countries. And video monitors mounted on mobile Segway-like platforms that let video-conferencing colleagues move through the facility as if they were there notes an appreciation for highly technical solutions.
ADP processes the pay for some 36 million people around the world (24 million in the United States and 12 million internationally)—more than the population of Canada. It moved more than $1.7 trillion in FY2015 in client tax, direct deposit, and related client funds—more than the size of Saudi Arabia’s economy. It services a professional employer organization (PEO) group of more than 400,000 employees—more than the entire workforce of Kroger, the Home Depot, or Target.
