Both onboarding and mentoring are tasks which do not need shared office presence to accomplish effectively, they just require a bit of work and an update to the

Both onboarding and mentoring are tasks which do not need shared office presence to accomplish effectively, they just require a bit of work and an update to the generic process everyone has been using for decades. If your company's onboarding or mentoring process fails with remote employees then it is probably worth spending a bit of time working on the process instead of trying to cling to old habits.