Business growth, as well as natural churn, dictates that bringing in fresh blood is going to be an essential feature of your experience as an entrepreneur. Whether they are moving home, retiring or just fancy a new challenge some place else, existing staff do leave from time to time. And on top of that your own objective of course will be to expand and take on additional staff for the purpose of developing and diversifying.

What all this leads to is a need for making the process of recruiting new staff as seamless as possible.

Of course though finding new employees is only one part of the process. Your new recruit may tick all the requisite boxes when it comes to being able to do the job that you require of them, but you will want to integrate them organisationally and socially, so that in the shortest space of time possible they will blend in and become part of the everyday culture of the office. This integration process has come to be known as “onboarding”.

Arrest the Process of Constant Churn

According to the Society for Human Resource Management in the US, roughly half of all senior hires fail within the first eighteen months. When it comes to hourly-paid staff the prospects of holding onto them are even worse, with something like 50% moving on to pastures new within 120 days.

Staff who leave need to be replaced, and so the whole laborious process has to be begun anew. This has the effect of draining your resources and your energy and distracting you from your wider goals, as well as of course of making it more difficult to maintain a settled office environment.

To some extent a healthy work ambience will create is own dynamic, doing its own work while you get on with yours. But as with so many other aspects of the business operation there are tools available which can help you with this side of things.

Using Onboarding Software to Drive Stability

Dedicated software helps you to create processes which quickly move new employees beyond the formalities of integration and towards “first days”, that is towards a mindset in which the new recruit already feels a valued part of the organisation fulfilling a trusted and meaningful role within the operation.

Staff Glass onboarding software is a good example of a tool which manages this process on your behalf. In using it you will be tapping in to tried and trusted strategies for minimising uneasiness and reticence, setting your talented new signing straight to work in helping you to realise your goals.

The authoritative Forbes argues that bringing employee engagement centre stage into your business strategy rather than leaving the process of integration to the whim of your human resources department will give you a head start in a competitive world.

The Importance of a Settled Office Environment

The benefits of having stability in the workplace cannot be overstated.  No matter how talented they may be new employees inevitably take some amount of time to “bed in”, and this is all time during which they are familiarising themselves with the nuances of your organisational structure and therefore not operating to their full potential.

Furthermore, the process of welcoming and integrating them into your operation will without doubt cause some distraction amongst your existing workforce.  You will want to minimise this disruption as much as you are able.

Purpose-built software will enable you to make this unavoidable process as painless as possible, thereby maximising the time available to you for productive work which will quickly realise the full potential of your new recruit.