Employee Onboarding Software For Small Businesses

Employee onboarding software for small businesses is often justified on efficiency, and efficiency is not the real problem. In a small business the whole onboarding process usually lives in one person’s head.

They know which forms are needed, who to email for a laptop, which policies the new starter has to sign and what the induction covers. None of it is written down because it has never needed to be.

Two things follow. When that person is away or leaves, onboarding degrades immediately and quietly, and the gaps are compliance gaps rather than experience ones. And nobody can tell you what a new starter did or did not receive six months later, because there is no record.

Software makes the process explicit and repeatable. That is worth more in a five-person business than in a five-hundred-person one.

The Fair Work Ombudsman sets out what must be given to new employees. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s onboarding management system and pre-boarding software.