If you thought the brunt of the Great Resignation took place near the end of 2021, think again. Despite the fact that the year ended with the most resignations in the 20 years that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked such data, a recent survey by Resume Builder found that one in four employees plan to leave their job in 2022. All the while, research from Eagle Hill Consulting revealed that new hires are more likely to leave a job sooner than their peers, with half of employees who started a new job during the pandemic saying they expected to stay just two years or less at their new job. This seems to beg the question: Can employers raise new hire retention by improving the onboarding process, and what needs to change with onboarding at a time when job seekers have the advantage and hybrid environments have made onboarding exponentially harder for organizations? Research from Glassdoor, for its part, links strong onboarding to a 70 percent boost in productivity and an 82 percent jump in retention, suggesting effective onboarding helps new hires ramp up faster, feel more productive and stick around longer. Yet more than a third of companies recently surveyed by hiring software provider Workable acknowledged that remote onboarding has been a By Martin Vilaboy RESOURCES Employees Say Onboarding is Off Track 28 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com
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