
Onboarding Checklist for New Employees
There’s more to onboarding than checking IDs and handing out paperwork. When you hire a new employee, it’s all too easy for HR and managers to get bogged down by tedious tasks. And if that happens, you won’t have time to build the first impressions and meaningful connections that drive engagement and long-term retention.
HR leaders spend up to 57% of their time on administrative tasks (CACM). Which only leaves you 2.15 days a week (check the math!) for strategic decisions, leadership development, performance reviews, compliance audits, employee education, succession planning, and more. You deserve better.
If you want to save time on admin, you need efficient workflows. An employee onboarding checklist, for example, can help HR streamline every aspect of the new-hire onboarding process.
Here’s a customizable onboarding checklist template that you can make your own. We’ve included the essential HR tasks, but you can add, remove, or change anything to suit your company’s unique needs.