Berkowitz: ADP pays about 40 million workers globally every month
Jack Berkowitz · Leveraging People Data at Scale | ADP Chief Data Officer, Jack Berkowitz · Nov 17, 2022 · at 0:40
Jack Berkowitz, Chief Data Officer at ADP, discusses the company's global payroll scale at Data Driven NYC.
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“Some of the numbers are kind of astounding, so we pay in any given month about forty million people around the world.”
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