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5 benefits of an effective onboarding process

The impact of onboarding—positive or negative—affects an employee’s entire time at your company. When you invest in creating a positive and valuable onboarding experience, new hires will appreciate it, and the company will be better off.

1. Onboarding bolsters early retention

Employees want you to invest in their career development. Without enough support, new hires start off their job with doubt and distrust, driving 20% of them to quit within their first 45 days. If you don’t give them chances to grow, they’re increasingly willing to quit—even if they don’t have another job lined up.Onboarding is your first (and biggest) opportunity to demonstrate you’re invested in employee growth. When you create an effective onboarding process, you’ll help new hires acclimate to the day-to-day and demonstrate your employee value proposition by investing in their growth from the start.

2. Onboarding helps employees zip through dull tasks

Strong onboarding processes combine organization and tech to get through new-hire admin tasks quickly (and without boring them to tears). Starting a job is, by nature, an admin-heavy process. The average onboarding program has more than 50 tasks for the new employee, including setting up company accounts, filling out tax documents, signing forms, and getting on the payroll. Paperwork is a buzzkill, and without an efficient process in place, it can stifle the momentum a new hire has coming into the job.

3. Onboarding fast-tracks productivity

Your employees need a high-learning, low-stakes period to acquire skills and become familiar with your tools and processes, and onboarding is the perfect time to do it. When you hire someone with great potential, they want to contribute right away, but they need guidance on how your company works. Onboarding helps get them up to speed quickly, so they can start contributing as soon as possible.

4. Onboarding builds trust and community

Onboarding is a pivotal moment for community building and welcoming new people into your existing community. It's also a fantastic opportunity to set the tone of your company culture and make sure everyone feels like they're part of a team. Ideally, new hires will plant the seeds for professionally and personally meaningful relationships during onboarding. Otherwise, they may feel isolated and build walls that keep them from being a happy or productive member of the team.