Automating your organization's onboarding processes is a crucial part of meeting the new employee's expectations of the organization and the hiring process. In this article, we have gathered five concrete benefits of automated processes.
The reception desk has rung. The department's new employee has arrived for her first day of work. Full of nervous anticipation and excited to get started with her new tasks! You go down and pick her up from the receptionist, you make small talk on the way to your office, and you show her to her new desk. The computer is already set up and there is some welcome material about the organization that she should familiarize herself with. You're actually going straight to a meeting, so it's best if she spends her time on the welcome materials.
Her computer login and access to the systems and applications she needs to use on a daily basis are not yet in place. They have been ordered from the IT department and should be on their way. They should be able to do it during the day. The last time you hired an employee in the department, it took a few days, but they have promised to prioritize it. You'll find something for her to do until everything is up and running.You have ordered a copy of Sophie's IT accesses for her, and although they don't have the same job title or tasks, it's probably a good match. You leave the new employee at her desk and hurry to your meeting.
Does the above scenario sound familiar ?
If so, your organization is not alone. Too many companies don't have basic onboarding processes in place. And that's a shame. Because onboarding is your organization's unique opportunity to showcase your company culture, what it's like to work for you and, most importantly, the importance of the employee's role. If the onboarding process does not meet the expectations of the new hire, it can easily have consequences for the entire hiring process.
5 benefits of automated onboarding processes
Organizations with standardized onboarding processes are generally 50 percent better at retaining new hires. And the path to standardized processes very often goes through automation.
In fact, organizations that automate onboarding-related tasks can benefit from employees reaching their first performance goals 18 percent faster compared to organizations that rely on manual processes.
Organizations that automate their onboarding processes can enjoy five concrete benefits:
- It will be easier to retain staff
If the onboarding process is not a positive experience, there is a significant risk that the employee will leave within the first year of employment. With automated processes, this can result in a 16% higher retention rate for new hires.
- Increasing employee satisfaction
Automating time-consuming administrative tasks frees up time to focus on the employee-focused onboarding tasks. The tasks that help establish a strong relationship between the organization and the new hire. This has a positive impact on employee satisfaction.
- HR gets more time for its core tasks
If the HR department has fewer administrative tasks - because those tasks run efficiently and automatically - HR will be able to dedicate much more time to employee development and the strategic development of the entire organization.
- It contributes to a black bottom line
If digital onboarding is automated so that employees' IT access is in place as soon as they arrive for their first day of work, it improves their ability to become a productive part of the organization right away. This saves the organization from efficiency losses, which has a significant impact on the overall bottom line.
- Maintaining compliance becomes easier
HR has to work harder than ever to ensure the protection of personal data. Automated onboarding processes make this work much easier, as it becomes easier to ensure control over which employees have access to which resources. The right automation solution will also make it easy to get an overview of the organizational processes that handle sensitive personal data.
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