Only 12% of employees feel strongly that their organization does a great job onboarding new employees. This low percentage makes sense when you consider that trainers often spend a few days throwing a large amount of information at employees and hope it all sticks. Research shows employees forget 50% of the information presented during a training session within an hour. In a week, that figure jumps to 90%.
HR and learning and development (L&D) teams put too much time and money into training content—whether for onboarding, compliance training, upskilling efforts, refreshers on core policies, benefits, and processes—for it to go underutilized or to waste.