Pre-boarding and On-boarding can make or break a new joiner's experience in joining their new company. Stats tell us that employees decide in the first 45 days whether to stay at their new company. So first impressions really do count.
Remove the lengthy email chains and instead use a Cloud SaaS People Product such as Sage People to do this for you - it will help your new joiners to feel welcome and loved before they have even stepped into the building on Day 1. It'll also marry up with a slick Recruitment process. You can do clever things like tell your new joiners about upcoming social events such as the Christmas party. Or share with them the weekly message from your Leader. And no one has to remember to send out an email.
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Many of the cloud HR SaaS systems offer the ability to build in an onboarding checklist that the employee can access and contribute to alongside your HR team.