How the 4 C’s of onboarding look in the new hybrid era – and why Connection should be at the core

Six examples of innovative best practices you can use to engage new employees in a hybrid world

Successful onboarding is a key part of any organizational management strategy. And despite the endless benefits the new hybrid work model has brought, it has also created a new wave of challenges when it comes to onboarding effectively. Forward-thinking companies must embrace the need for innovation and collaboration in this new setting, and create engaging experiences to get them excited about contributing to the company’s mission and goals.

Particularly given today’s War for Talent, companies can not afford to underestimate the importance of onboarding. In fact, Forbes reported recently that companies with structured and standardized onboarding processes experience 54% higher productivity from their newly employed and twice as high level of engagement. On top of this, the cost of losing a new employee within the first 12 months equates up to 2 years of that employee’s salary. Their research also revealed that structured onboarding is by far the most unnoticed discipline in HR management today and the one with the most potential to solve one of the biggest global challenges for public and private companies - to retain and attract new employees.

So, how do companies implement such practices? Especially in such a drastically transformed and virtual landscape. And which forward-thinking companies are leading the charge in the new hybrid era?