European alternatives to ADP

One of the world's largest payroll and HR-services providers, a fixture in enterprise back offices. A publicly-traded US company holding vast amounts of employee and payroll data under US law.

Company information about ADP
Company
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Headquarters
Roseland, United States
Founded
1949
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Publicly traded
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Own infrastructure

Why people switch away from ADP

Subject to US CLOUD ActProfit-driven (public markets)Proprietary softwareNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to ADP

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Top Pick

Germany 66 · Mostly European

HR, payroll, and recruiting in one platform built for European employment law. GDPR-native, with data hosted in the EU.

Subscription · from €3.90/employee/month Amazon AWS EU

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Why avoid United States-owned services?

CLOUD Act

Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.

FISA Section 702

Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.

GDPR vs US law conflict

EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.

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