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How Workflow Software Helps You Manage Automation Initiatives

Employees spend an estimated eight hours a week working inefficiently. Things like reworking a task and searching the web or intranet for information take time away from important work.

As a result, more companies are undergoing digital transformations. They’re turning to solutions like workflow software and robotic process automation (RPA) — using software “robots” to perform basic and repetitive tasks.

If you’re not already leveraging these solutions, you’re missing out on opportunities to boost productivity across the board.

In this article, we’ll look at how workflow automation can help you manage and advance automation initiatives at your company. We’ll also look at automation initiatives that you can get started with today.

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Offboarding: What It Is and How to Automate This Process

Every company experiences turnover — employees may leave their positions to take an opportunity elsewhere or for personal reasons.

Regardless of the reason, it’s best to part ways with employees on good terms. However, you can leave departing employees feeling frustrated without a formal offboarding process. You also face legal risks if you overlook any important steps.

Having an effective employee offboarding program can ensure that nothing slips through the cracks. It can even turn former employees into advocates for your company.

In this article, we’ll look at what offboarding is and why it’s important. We’ll also look at how you can use automation software to streamline this process and best practices to follow.

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How to Create and Automate Your Time Off Request Forms

When employees need to take time off, they don’t want to spend any more time than necessary getting their requests approved. 

Likewise, managers don’t want to spend a ton of time reviewing time off requests or sending them back because some information is missing.

The whole point of a time off request form is to make it easier to track when employees are out of the office. But relying on paper forms is only making the problem worse.

So how can you create a more efficient time off request process?

Keep reading to learn more. In this article, we’ll look at how to optimize your time off request form and how you can automate the approval process to make it easy for everyone to take time off.

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How to Create an Optimized Employee Onboarding Workflow

The onboarding process plays a crucial role in building a more productive workforce. Getting new hires in on the right foot enables them to start contributing sooner rather than later.

Onboarding serves as an employee’s first introduction to a company. But this process is often hampered by paperwork, as new hires are inundated with piles of tedious forms.

As a result, new hires are left feeling overwhelmed before they start. So how can you streamline the employee onboarding process and leave new hires with a positive first impression?

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5 Ways to Improve Hiring with Onboarding Automation

Poor onboarding processes aren’t just expensive. They kill the employer-employee relationship right from the start.

Not only are your outdated manual onboarding processes slowing you down and costing you money, they’re losing you top talent.

Streamlined onboarding leads to happier staff who stay longer, perform better, and speak more highly of your organization. 

On top of that, you cut costs, speed up processing, and eliminate errors.

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6 Creative Onboarding Process Examples To Streamline Hiring

Conventional employee onboarding can be a real headache.

Piles of forms and hours of data entry make the whole process slow and tedious. Then there are the inevitable mistakes that come from manually processing new hires.

The problem is that a poor employee onboarding process directly affects retention.

New hires that don’t have a positive onboarding experience are twice as likely to look for a new work opportunity shortly after arriving.

Luckily, onboarding has evolved. 

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10 New Hire Orientation Best Practices to Win Over New Hires

Is your new hire orientation program giving new employees the information and resources they need to succeed in their roles? Or are they getting bogged down by seemingly endless and tedious paperwork?

A strong new hire orientation program is a must to retain talent and increase engagement: 69% of employees who go through an excellent onboarding process are more likely to stay with a company after three years.

In this article, we’ll cover the new hire orientation best practices that’ll set you–and your employees–up to succeed.

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5 Steps to Improve Your Employee Onboarding Process

How you onboard new hires can mean the difference between a productive, engaged workforce and (time and again) going through the costly and frustrating process of high employee turnover.

You probably already have an onboarding process in place. 

But is it setting new hires up for success in their roles? Or is your workflow getting bogged down by manual processes?

In this article, we’ll take an in-depth look at how you can improve the onboarding process and get new hires to work more quickly and without the agonizing paperwork. 

We’ll also show you how to automate with employee onboarding software like frevvo.

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How the Rise of the Gig Economy Is Challenging HR

Flexibility is the new employment. Freelancers, contractors and part-timers are leaving their stable full-time positions to “gig” their way to more flexibility and freedom from the 9-to-5 grind. 

The gig economy started as a trend, but it is now becoming an industry mainstay. Last year, 41 million American workers (consultants, freelancers, contractors, temporary, or on-call) generated $1.28 trillion in revenue for the US economy. 

The HR challenge? Current hiring and onboarding protocols cater to full-time employees only. Human Resource departments will have to change their methods and introduce new practices to adapt to hiring and onboarding gig workers. 

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Employee Onboarding in the Digital Workplace

Companies face fierce competition when it comes to attracting and retaining top talent. 

The average millennial stays at a job for 6-12 months, 10-20 times shorter than Baby Boomers and Gen Xers did. Considering that millennials make up some 75% of the workforce, it’s important to understand what millennials want from work and what they expect from their employers. Some 55% of millennials don’t feel fully engaged at work, and perhaps as a result, around 60% say they’re open to a better job opportunity, should one present itself.

While many businesses invest in modern office spaces and offer attractive perks like in-house baristas, free-beer Fridays and unlimited paid time off, they often neglect the internal processes that really shape company culture and impact employee turnover. Onboarding is one of these processes.

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