ADP India opens second centre in India

ADP Private Limited, the Indian subsidiary of US-based Automatic Data Processing, Inc (ADP), inaugurated its second centre in Pune.

The company also announced its plan to grow to a 1,000-people operations in the next two years. ADP currently has over 100 associates employed in Pune.

The Pune centre will work on R&D functions as well as provide business process outsourcing (BPO) services besides serving as the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (DRCP) centre for ADP India's Hyderabad operations.

ADP has 2,100 people in Hyderabad. "We have made $100 million investments in India since our inception here in 1999," said Gary Butler, president and chief executive officer, ADP.

The company has 460,000 employees globally of which 30,000 are based in the US. "We will be freezing our recruitment in the US and growing them internationally. A large part of that will come to India," said Butler while sharing that the $10 billion company was growing at 10-12 per cent annually in revenues and the headcount growth was at five per cent per annum.

With an annual commitment of seven per cent of its overall revenues dedicated to R&D, India accounts for 20-25 per cent of its global R&D workforce. "A large part of our global R&D spend would come to India," said Butler while stressing on the high quality of skills and abundant talent pool available here.