This pandemic has not only changed the way we work but has also shifted employee’s behaviour. As per the study conducted by MIT Sloane toxic work culture is 10.4 times more powerful than compensation while predicting parameters for a company’s attrition. Onboarding reflects organisation’s culture; a good one ensures high engagement and a bad one can land the employee in a job portal the very next day. Stakes are even higher while onboarding virtually.
Traditionally Onboarding can be classified into three stages. Every stage of a traditional onboarding came with an underlying assumption of new hires being physically present in the premises for all the tasks. However, with very frequent detection of new variants, dates for returning to office have again become tentative. Hence to cope up with the changing times, companies had to transform their onboarding plan from physical to virtual radically. Virtual onboarding helped in addressing two pressing issues-employee’s safety and business continuity. It also helped in tapping to talent pools who were...
