Employee Onboarding

The process of integrating a new hire into the company, setup, training, context, and relationships, so they become productive and feel part of the team. Distinct from onboarding a product user.

Why it matters

Good onboarding gets new hires contributing and comfortable faster and reduces early attrition, while a chaotic start wastes a hire's first weeks. As a team scales, a repeatable onboarding process pays off quickly.

For example

A new hire's first week is structured: accounts set up, a buddy assigned, and a small task shipped by Friday, so they feel productive fast.

Worth your time

Employee Onboarding Best Practices: What Actually Works for Growing Indian Startups Springworks · article Written for the Indian startup reality where most onboarding stops after day one and the hire quietly checks out in weeks two to eight, then leaves inside 90 days. It gives the concrete ramp we advocate: week one is founder-led company context (business model, honest position), weeks two to four are real work with a visible contribution by week two, all on a 30-60-90 spine. Uses Indian attrition data (16 to 24 percent in tech and services), so the stakes are local, not borrowed from a US blog. Open springworks.in →

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