What is employee offboarding … and why’s this a must-have to do well?

I’ve worked with dozens of organizations across many industries, and find nearly all have a documented onboarding process … but far fewer have the same level of clarity for offboarding. And when employees leave, it shows! Access may not get revoked or state compliance forms don’t get filed … and critical knowledge walks out the […]

The essential employee preboarding checklist

Preboarding is everything that happens between offer acceptance and a new hire’s first day … it’s pre-onboarding for your new employee. And it continues to be the phase most organizations underinvest in, despite evidence showing this is where the first signs of disengagement, ghosting, and early churn tend to appear! The gap between “yes, I’ll […]

New Staff Onboarding Checklist For HR Teams

I work with HR teams across industries as our Director of Client Success, and one pattern comes up more than almost any other: organizations invest heavily in recruiting, then significantly underinvest in what happens after the offer is signed. Onboarding gets treated as an administrative handoff rather than a strategic moment. That’s a huge miss! […]

Employee Offboarding: What you need to know

If I look at what’s changed over the past couple of years, employee offboarding has quietly become one of the most important processes organizations are rethinking. For a long time, it was treated as administrative: someone leaves, you collect equipment, process final pay, and move on. But what I see consistently, especially in larger organizations, […]

Preboarding Tasks To Prevent Candidate Ghosting

Candidate ghosting after offer acceptance is no longer an anomaly. Across industries, employers are seeing an increase in candidates who accept a role and then disengage entirely before day one. The result is lost time, wasted recruitment spend, and open roles that must be filled again. This risk is most acute during the notice period. […]

What’s The ROI Of Employee Preboarding?

When leaders talk about ROI in HR, the conversation often defaults to engagement or culture. Those outcomes matter, but they aren’t what typically drives budget approval. The ROI of preboarding is more concrete. And that’s what Finance rightfully expects. Employee preboarding ROI is not about saving administrative time, though that’s a definite “soft” cost savings […]

Onboarding statistics data HR leaders need

We originally published a version of this in 2021, but the landscape’s changed aplenty since: hybrid work is now a default for many, AI’s entering the onboarding workflow, and the cost of getting onboarding wrong has become harder to ignore. This page compiles the most current onboarding statistics available sourced from primary research, with older […]

How to Onboard Remote Employees Without Losing Engagement or Control

Remote hiring may have been seen as temporary for some, but now it’s anything but. The problem? A lot of remote onboarding hasn’t kept up. In in-office settings, onboarding benefits from proximity: new hires ask questions, observe how things are done in real-time, and build relationships. But in a remote setting, these disappear. What needs […]

Modern I-9 Compliance for Employee Onboarding (Including Remote Verification)

Form I-9 compliance has always been a required part of onboarding, but what’s changed is how complex it’s become. Between remote work, evolving federal guidance, and increased scrutiny around employment eligibility, HR teams are now responsible for managing compliance across distributed environments without introducing risk or slowing down hiring. Manual processes and inconsistent workflows create […]

Mastering the Digital Employee Onboarding Process: Essential Strategies and Tips

Employee onboarding processes evolve rapidly, and companies embracing digital onboarding keep seeing significant benefits. Digitizing onboarding helps businesses streamline workflows, improve employee engagement, and enhance the overall new-hire experience. With the right onboarding platform and digital tools, organizations can ensure a successful digital employee onboarding experience that saves time, increases productivity, and improves retention … […]