Remote onboarding tips from Asana’s Head of People, Anna Binder
✔️ How to use the pre-boarding period;
✔️ Creating a community around new hires using Slack;
✔️ Using Employees Resource Groups to connect new colleagues to the more tenured ones.
The Evolution of Onboarding at Buffer: How We Welcome New Teammates
article✔️ The history of the 45 days "bootcamp" for new hires;
✔️ Using 5 automated emails to avoid information overload;
✔️ Their onboarding dream team: hiring manager, role buddy, and culture buddy;
✔️ How they gather feedback.
Better.com's Onboarding Process for Growing From 350 to 3,000 Employees
article video✔️ Looking at "health" scores to track productivity;
✔️ Facilitators are key-people in the onboarding process;
✔️ Let new hires learn in the flow of work, while also providing additional support.
Onboarding at Gitlab
article✔️ Having a welcome call in the pre-boarding process;
✔️ Automating tasks for Hiring Managers;
✔️ Having a very clear checklist.
How WhatsApp Onboards New Hires Remotely
✔️ Give new starters user perspective by engaging them in the research process;
✔️ The importance of helping new hires get past the impostor syndrome.
How we approach remote employee onboarding at Intercom
✔️ Provide new hires previous All Hands videos;
✔️ Use "Monthly Social Connect" sessions to ensure a sense of belonging;
✔️ Use games to make the onboarding process fun.
Our onboarding’s myelination
article✔️ Use gamification in your onboarding process;
✔️ Do a retrospective with the new hire after 4 weeks on the job.
The Only Onboarding Timeline You’ll Need: From Offer to First Friday
article✔️ Default to filling new hires’ calendars. Don’t leave them with the feeling that you’re surprised that they showed up;
✔️ Use "Introduce Yourself" emails to empower new hires to speak about themselves to the team and build an archive of all the emails.
How Warby Parker Makes Every Point In Its Employee Lifecycle Extraordinary
article✔️ Make new employees stand out. Warby Parker designed a custom helium balloon that features an illustration of a steak with a pair of glasses on. It reads, “Nice to meat you!” These balloons are affixed to every newcomer’s desk for their first couple weeks. Other employees are conditioned to treat the balloons as beacons so they’ll introduce themselves and strike up conversations with newbies.
