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! […]
A preboarding communication plan for staffing agencies
If you’ve worked in staffing for any amount of time, you’ve felt this: you work hard to source a candidate, get them to interview, you get the “yes” and breathe a sigh of relief … …and then nothing happens. They don’t show up. They stop responding. They disappear, leaving you and your client in the […]
Why internal mobility fails when it’s an afterthought in your HR tech stack
After over a decade working with HR teams across industries, I’ve seen a consistent pattern: companies invest heavily in acquiring talent, then leave a lot on the table when it comes to moving that talent around once they’re inside the organization. Internal mobility, also known as crossboarding or transboarding, is the practice of moving employees […]
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 […]
What Nurses Really Want from Onboarding
Progress doesn’t mean solved, and according to the 2026 NSI National Health Care Retention and RN Staffing Report, RN turnover nationally sits at 17.6%. That’s down from COVID-era numbers, but the cost of replacing a single staff RN has risen to $61,110. With 1.9 million healthcare job openings projected annually through 2034 according to the […]
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 […]
Onboarding For Construction Workers: HR’s Advantage In A Tight Labor Market
Construction companies across the United States continue to face a historic workforce challenge. For HR leaders, this tightening market means that recruiting, engaging, and retaining skilled craft workers depends on more than competitive wages. A strategically-designed onboarding process drives engagement, accelerate productivity, improve compliance, and reduce early turnover – especially for a largely mobile and […]
How to measure employee sentiment during onboarding and why it changes everything
Most organizations treat onboarding as something they do to new hires rather than something with them. The process is built, steps are mapped, workflows are configured … and it runs. What gets measured (if anything!) is completion: did the new hire finish their forms? Did they complete their I-9? Did they actually show up? What […]
What is Onboarding? How has It Changed?
Only 12% of employees say their organization does onboarding well. This single statistic – consistent across multiple surveys in recent years – is one of the most striking in all of Human Resources because it shows the overwhelming majority of new hires experience onboarding that falls short of what it could be. “So, what?” you […]
Why Employee Retention Starts Before Day One
The Great Resignation may have faded from the headlines, but its lessons still shape the workforce. Retention is no longer a reaction to turnover; it is a reflection of how well an organization builds connection, clarity, and belonging from the very start. According to Gallup’s 2025 Employee Retention and Attraction Report, more than half of […]