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Onboarding New Employees

The onboarding path instead of 4 weeks of shadowing.

👥 PEOPLE & KNOWLEDGE
The first 4 weeks are expensive: the new hire gets paid but is barely productive. With high turnover this becomes a structural loss.
-50%
time-to-productivity
-40%
trainer effort
10-15
instructions in the path

Instead of 4 weeks of shadowing a foreman, the instruction itself guides the new hire through the first activities. You build an onboarding path: day 1 (plant tour via QR, PPE, safety briefing) → week 1 (first simple activity, shift routine, 6S) → weeks 2-4 (further activities, setup, quality checks, first independence). Existing use case instructions are linked instead of rewritten.

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The trigger - how do you recognize it?
  • New employees need 4+ weeks to become productive
  • Onboarding depends on 1-2 trainers whose time is scarce
  • Seasonal workers or high turnover repeat the expensive game constantly
  • Non-native speakers take especially long - or need a translator
  • There is an onboarding plan on paper, but every trainer does it differently
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How it works with GIRI

1. Identify the 10-15 most important activities of the first 4 weeks. 2. One instruction per activity. 3. Structure them as a path: day 1 → week 4. 4. Progress check per employee. 5. Publish multilingually - GIRI translates automatically.

In the pilot context: onboarding is the natural scaling area in Bootcamp Phase 3 (Scale It).

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The value
  • -50% time-to-productivity
  • -40% onboarding effort for trainers (REWO Polish plant case)
  • Scalable and trainer-independent, can run in parallel
  • Consistent quality - every new hire gets the same onboarding
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Typical users
  • Logistics (high turnover, seasonal staff)
  • Food production (seasonal business)
  • Manufacturing with a high share of non-native speakers
  • Fast-growing sites
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What you want to avoid
  • Treating onboarding as a one-time event - make it a path with progress measurement
  • Putting safety topics at the end - that is day 1, not week 4
  • Keeping "learn by watching" - it does not scale
  • Rewriting everything from scratch - link existing instructions into the path
KPI figures are industry benchmarks (SwipeGuide, REWO European auto case, POKA), not a GIRI guarantee.
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