TL;DR
The cost to onboard a single new employee in 2025, at least for IT teams, is nearly $8,000.
This is the cost of expensive hardware, software license fees, and IT labor hours.
This total balloons when you consider variables like shipping equipment to remote workers and the thousands of dollars lost in productivity while a new hire waits for assets.
Automating account creation, standardizing equipment kits, and actively managing software licenses will save money and enable new employees to contribute from day one.