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Surprising Employee
Onboarding Statistics
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New employees who attended a
well structured onboarding
orientation program were 69
percent more likely to remain
at a company up to 3 years.

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When new employee onboarding is
done correctly, it leads to higher job
satisfaction, organizational
commitment, decreased turnover,
better performance levels, career
complementing, and lowered stress.

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25 percent of companies admitted that their
onboarding program does not include any
form of training, program does not include
any form of training, which leads to a loss of
60 percent of the entire workforce.

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Approximately 35 percent of
companies spend 0 dollars on
onboarding.

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60 percent of companies
indicated that they do not set
any milestones or concrete
goals for new hires to attain.

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One multi-million dollar organization that
engages in intensive onboarding during
orientations has managed to move from
23rd place on Fortune magazine’s “100
Best Places to Work” to 15th place in 2010.

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A combined 71 percent of a survey
respondent list are currently in the
process of updating their
onboarding programs.

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The 30 percent of businesses who
continually update their onboarding
programs are more likely to be
positioned to respond to industry
indicators and employee trends.

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Organizations with a standard onboarding
process experience 54 percent greater
new hire productivity and 50 percent
greater new hire retention rate.

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