Tip of the Day: Engage new hires through effective onboarding

A Tuesday afternoon session at Benefits Forum and Expo offered an exclusive glimpse at a case study that showed how onboarding techniques can work to engage new workers. Hannaford Brothers, a 27,000 employee grocery chain in the Northeast, offered this checklist of things to consider when designing your own corporate program:

• How high-tech or low-tech do you want to go/ are you able to go effectively?
• What should be high touch, and what should be low-touch?
  
• Will you offer pre-start remote access to computers?
• What systems, forms, and processes will be a part of the new hire process?
• How will content management be addressed?
• What steps and processes will you track (to determine ROI)?
• How does your multi-generational workforce impact plans? What will you do differently for workers of different ages and levels?