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How Onboarding Software Helps a Company Succeed

by Silk Road ***

One key to succeeding in the corporate world is having a brilliant employee onboarding program for your new hires. Employee onboarding software serves as a multi-faceted program that introduces new employees to your company, setting them up with required documentation and guiding them through process that will help them fit into the corporate culture of your company.

With advancements in technology, many companies are opting for online onboarding. Some reasons that make online onboarding necessary are:

1. It Welcomes New Employees, Generating Positive Feelings: Many new employees go through a nervous phase after accepting an offer by a company. This happens because they are throwing themselves into a new environment, where they have few or no friends or acquaintances, and where all of the faces they encounter are unfamiliar. If left to dwell on this unfamiliarity in the absence of an onboarding program, new employees become vulnerable to isolation and depression. An online onboarding program allows new hires to meet their team immediately and become familiar with their colleagues.

2. It Streamlines HR Onboarding: Online software guides new employees through the onboarding process, so that the new employees can complete fill out required documentation and complete other necessary tasks on their own time and at their own pace without the aid of an HR professional. It allows the employee to clear their first hurdles before even entering the office.

3. It Increases Employee Engagement: Do not take it for granted that an engaged candidate will convert into an engaged worker. To maximize the potential of this happening, you need excellent onboarding software. Engaging employees in the workplace helps in a lot of ways. First, an engaged employee is likely to fit in with the company culture faster than if there was little or no engagement. This helps the company by making it easier for employees to fit into their workplace, therefore decreasing the time it takes that employee to yield productive results. Engagement also helps in creating bonds among new and old employees. This is essential as it balances the personal and professional lives of the new employees, providing them with friends in the workplace itself.

4. It Increases Employee Retention: The most crucial part of the new employee journey comes between three to four months after joining a company. This is the time is when the employee is able to examine all of the information they’ve gathered about their new company and decide whether to stay with the company or find another employer that they think will be more suitable for them. Effective online employee onboarding creates a better chance for employee retention at this point in time, as it fosters a smooth initial transition and a more engaged employee. In contrast to this, a slow, confusing, or nonexistent employee onboarding process leaves the company more exposed to employee resignation.

 

Employee onboarding software is a brilliant asset that helps employees in making connections all over the company. It also eliminates the task of handling paperwork, which is difficult to maintain and is often costlier. With onboarding software, you can focus on maximizing employee potential as all the other processes become hassle-free.

Author’s Bio: The author has explained the advantages of onboarding software over manual onboarding. It is beneficial for the company, as online HR onboarding provides a warm welcome to the employees, removes the tension of paperwork, and contributes to employee engagement.

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