What is New Employee Onboarding?

Onboarding is a systematic and comprehensive approach to integrating a new employee with a company or department, and it's culture; as well as getting the new hire the tools and information they need to become productive, contributing members of an organization's workforce.

A well-designed, fun and engaging onboarding process has a significantly greater affect on employee engagement and thus retention when compared to the old school mentality of one-day "orientation." In fact, The Human Resources Corporate Leadership Council found that increasing an employee's level of engagement could potentially improve performance by 20 percent and reduce the employee's probability of departure by a whopping 87 percent!

If you're one of the many organizations that are still partaking in new hire checklists and orientation days packed with endless paperwork and videos, have no fear! Developing an onboarding program at your organization may seem like a daunting task but it doesn't have to be.

Many onboarding software solutions exist that enable organizations to quickly and easily automate a formal onboarding process for employees beginning even prior to day one, making the onboarding process even more streamlined. Onboarding software provides automated workflows and task management tools, electronic forms management, and socialization features to help introduce new hires to a company's culture. Technology solutions for onboarding take away the administrative burden of the process, making it much easier to manage

Onboarding processes are meant to quickly help new employees feel like a valued part of the workforce and get them up to speed on the job requirements so they can start producing quickly. Onboarding helps companies retain the talent they worked so hard to recruit, and keep them motivated and satisfied with their decision to join that company, in the end saving costs in training, turnover and bottom line revenue.

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