Your organization’s onboarding plan and processes play a critical role in employee retention. As CHROs put an increased focus on recruitment and retention efforts in 2016, renewed attention on the first days of an employee’s tenure could be a high-return tactic.
The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) highlights a strong connection between an employee’s first days at an organization and the length of their tenure, citing some 33 percent of new hires who quit their jobs within six months, most commonly citing a lack of clear guidelines, ineffective training and poor peer relationships as reasons for leaving.
