REMOTE ONBOARDING MISTAKES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM By Sharon Emek, Ph.D., CIC, WAHVE Most likely, your organization, like many others, spent the better part of a year operating remotely. Your employees and managers addressed challenges and adapted well. Yet, for those who will continue (at least in part) working this way, there’s one more hurdle facing you – onboarding your new employees remotely. Even with the best remote-onboarding process, mistakes happen. New employees can get lost quickly without the right amount of hands-on mentoring. We know – Work At Home Vintage Experts (WAHVE) was founded as a 100-percent remote organization. We’ve overcome the very challenges your company may be facing when bringing new people on board.
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Because of this, we’ve been able to identify the most common mistakes companies can make during the onboarding process. And we’ve found solutions that can help transition those new employees into the workforce more successfully.
RUSHING THE ONBOARDING One of the biggest mistakes we see is companies that rush the new hire through onboarding in order to get them up to speed and on the job quickly. However, that employee could be missing out on key information or training. That can impact their productivity and their overall job satisfaction.
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