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This article rings true, but I can't tell if it's a chicken or the egg problem. Are firms with long on boarding processes less effective because bad habits are
by blululu 6y ago
This article rings true, but I can't tell if it's a chicken or the egg problem. Are firms with long on boarding processes less effective because bad habits are setup and normalized at the start, or are they dysfunctional from the get go and dysfunctional teams setup poorly thought out onboarding processes.
At a previous job at a large tech company I was given a period of ~6 weeks of onboarding. This was rather excessive, but the organization did not have a clear sense of what needed to be accomplished in the first place. I doubt that things would have been more effective if the onboarding simply a day or two of setup.
- PragmaticPulp 6y agoI had the same thought. At some point, loading employees up with structured activities and obligations that aren't entirely related to doing their job becomes counterproductive. It can be a sign that the company has lost focus. My favorite onboarding process was to simply give the person's team a budget to do whatever they wanted with the new hire for a day or two, then get to work. Managers would write up a document with all account info, login info, key communication info, and then let the teams fill the new person in on the day-to-day details while they went out to lunches or went go-karting or whatever they wanted. The more HR tries to structure things, the less effective it becomes at onboarding people. Let the teams handle it and make them responsible for getting the person up to speed quickly. They're closest to the work, and therefore they know best what the person actually needs.