Yammer: reimagine employee onboarding

Build your Yammer onboarding group in ten steps

Create the ultimate employee onboarding hub

Help new employees ramp up fast

Increase employee engagement

Crowdsource answers and solutions

Pin important documents in one place for employee reference

Share ideas and feedback

Reduce manager workload by automating processes

Streamline organizational learning

Encourage community building

Connect employees across departments and locations

Spend less time chasing down information

Successful onboarding is keyOnboarding new employees is important for every

company. You need a way to make resources and information easy to find.

Empower employees from day oneA comprehensive onboarding experience allows new employees to get up to speed quickly. It enables them to make an immediate impact and sets them up for long-term success.

Pin company documentsto the group’s files tabInclude helpful resources like employee handbooks, organizational charts, policies, benefits documentation, holiday schedules, or maps and transit information. Having this information in one location makes things easy for new employees and cuts down on the email load for managers and HR.

Sources: 1Gallup, State of the American Workplace, 2017, 2SHRM, Don't Underestimate the Importance of Good Onboarding, 2017, 3Digitate, Super CIO: What the CIO sees—that other people don’t, 2018, 4Gartner, Onboarding New Hires, 2019, 5Forbes Insights in association with SilkRoad, The Value of Employee Engagement in the Age of Digital Disruption, 2018

Take the next stepLearn more about Yammer new employee onboarding

> Yammer employee onboarding site

> YamJam playbook

> Yammer demos

> Yammer adoption

> Yammer case studies

Host a monthly Q&AEngage with your new employees in real time by hosting a monthly Live Event, Q&A, or "YamJam" so that they can ask questions, share their experience, and connect with their colleagues and HR. Learn about managing a live event and check out our YamJam playbook to create your own engagement moments.  

Invite new employeesto the groupBuild this into your day one communications for all new employees. If you need help adding new users, check out our guide for managing Yammer groups. This should be done regularly to ensure all new employees get added.  

Organizations with a standard onboarding process report 50% greater new-hire productivity.2

Welcome new employeesSend a message to newly hired employees so their new coworkers can welcome them. Bring their manager and team members into the discus-sion using the @mention feature. Ask them to introduce themselves and have them answer a few questions about where they’re coming from, what their new role is, and a few hobbies and interests so coworkers can learn more about them.

69% of employees are more likely to stay with a company for three years if they had a great onboarding experience.2

Start theconversationHelp to spark discussions by sharing questions into the group. Here are some example topics:

• How has your onboarding experience been so far? • What challenges have you faced? • What learnings can you share with others?

Employees who have a negative onboarding experience are twice as likely to look for new opportunities in the near future.3

Successful onboarding can drive employee performance by up to 15%.4

Spark Yammer engagementEncourage new users to join and create groups related to their role and general interests. Yammer groups are a great way for employees to connect, discover, and learn how to find information. The more involved new employees get, the better the outcomes are.

Leverage AI and Yammer integrationsTake your onboarding group to the next level by automating answers to frequently asked questions. This Yammer feature will help reduce your department's incoming emails.

92% of CFOs believe that proper onboarding could decrease or eliminate the heavy costs associated with unwanted turnover.5

Establish and nurture championsIdentify potential champions such as HR leaders, managers, or anyone that shows interest in helping new employees get up to speed. Ask these people to follow your Yammer new employee group to get notified of posts and activity. From there, champions can help new employees by making introductions, building interactions, and responding to posts.

Build out a dedicated onboarding group for new employees to ramp up fast. Name it something clear and obvious like “Contoso New Employee Onboarding” or “Contoso New Employees.”

Create a new Yammer group

Only 12% of employees strongly agree their organization does a great job of onboarding new employees.1

Go further

Don’t stop just yet—a Yammer group for new employees is just the beginning. Learn how to add this group into a SharePoint site dedicated to onboarding employees, with customizable trainings, announcements, and analytics complemented by the social superpowers of Yammer.

Elevate your new employee onboarding with Yammer