
? 10 per cent left the job after only a few days
? 9 per cent left the job within months of starting With rising recruitment costs and the increasing challenge of attracting top quality talent, this is exactly the kind of situation your business will want to avoid. So, the first step in onboarding success is to make sure your business completes recruitment of its successful hires. Why does employee onboarding go wrong? Employee onboarding is a critical period for businesses to engage with a new starter, and for both sides to exchange important information. Yet, as many businesses rely on manual processes to send out contracts, offer letter and other employment documents, this can become a bottleneck that slows down the process. In an experiment with a typical manual onboarding process, webonboarding found that it took 19 working days (not counting weekends and Bank Holidays) from sending to receiving signed documents. Go digital to beat the manual slow down Issuing and exchanging paper-based documentation is a resource hungry exercise, with 69% of HR professionals saying that they spend time chasing candidates for details and signatures. Switching to a digital process can help speed up onboarding. Issuing documents electronically and enabling digital signatures makes it easier for both businesses and candidates to send and receive relevant information. It also cuts out potential delays caused by disruption in the postal system such as missed collections, lack of weekend and Bank Holiday deliveries, incorrect postage or mis-labelled addresses. Making use of digital technology as part of your employee onboarding process can significantly cut delays in getting new employees into your business. How poor onboarding affects employee performance
Onboarding is a critical period for businesses to engage with a new starter. It?s a time when employees are forming their first impressions of what it?s like to work for your company. Across the world, office workers agreed that they would have settled into their new role much more quickly had there been fewer problems during onboarding. UK workers reported on average taking a month longer to settle into their roles.


This article is part of a wider campaign called the Scale-up Hub, a section of Real Business that provides essential advice and inspiration on taking your business to the next level. It?s produced in association with webexpenses and webonboarding, a fast-growing global organisation that provides cloud-based software services that automate expenses management and streamline the employee onboarding process.
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