Companies today are adopting the virtual onboarding processes to continue their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, the new hires had to learn about the terms of service from their existing colleagues. With this virtual onboarding processes, companies encourage freshers to learn about the company’s terms of service from the websites and webinars accessible through the laptops.

We are living in the age of the digital transformation. Companies are moving from traditional methods of onboarding and training their staff to the virtual method. We see companies adopt this method, as this saves a lot of time and money in addition to reducing the risk of spreading the coronavirus. Mostly, the companies offer such online programs at a discounted rate to encourage the fresher to learn as early as possible and become productive and effective. However, some organisations still prefer to use the traditional methods. The reason behind this is that they want to maintain their culture and values. Many organisations feel these values are hard-earned and will be lost if the traditional methods are replaced with new ones. However, in reality, this is not true. In fact, some of the newer methods have proven to be more efficient than the traditional methods. The first thing you should do is to make sure that your team members are aware of the new ways of working. Once they are aware of the new ways of working, then you can explain to them why you need to change.

Here’s few things to keep in mind before going for Virtual Onboarding.

Your remote team is off to a great start! With their first day finally upon them, you want to ensure you are providing them with everything they need to get going:

In this blog post, we will discuss the advantages of adopting the virtual onboarding program for an organisation. So, let’s get started. Advantages of Virtual onboarding Program :

1. Cost-effective: With the advancement of technology, it is now possible to deliver all types of training programs virtually. One can reduce the training cost by over 50 percent if they implement this method. There are no travel expenses, accommodation costs, and food costs. The training is offered on an online platform so it does not require any space.

2. Time-saving: Most of the organisations prefer to go virtual in order to save time.

3. Employee Engagement : As an employer or business owner, what can we do to make our employees feel more connected to our company? A good first step is to introduce your new hires to the organisation and its values. Make sure new employees know what the company does. Ensure that new hires are working in their best interest, not ours; and Create a culture of trust by making sure the right people can trust each other.

As a business grows, the organisation’s structure often changes. This means that new hires might have different needs and skills than existing staff members. It also means that people are no longer in their ideal roles because they’ve become accustomed to working with their co-workers in a certain way.

One of the first steps in creating a welcoming culture is making sure your hiring process doesn’t involve having to deal with long waitlists, unrealistic job descriptions or long-term commitments.

It is important for organisations to be prepared for virtual onboarding process for their new hires, Virtual onboarding has become more use full these days as we are currently suffering form pandemic situation. Every company needs to prepare its blended virtual onboarding process which has to include all the detail which the organisation will be willing to give to its new hire on day 1.

Organisations should make sure that the new hire is ready to get start with, Asset requirements should be sent earlier itself. should follow up on drafting important details if required. everything should be planned in a seem-less manner. Most importantly the gap formation between the new hires and their team members ( Team leaders, Managers,  other on floor employees ), should be decreased, It’s the main constraint of virtual onboarding, on an everyday meet with their manager or team leader one will get to know them better but as we are dealing everything online here we need to make sure that they are well connected and getting to know them better and also getting to know there works better no and then should be tracked down. Every one should maintain a good relationship towards the new hires.

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