Employee on-boarding, also known as new-employee orientation or assimilation, is the process by which a practice acclimatizes its new employees. It is one of the keys for building employee loyalty and engagement, fostering a stronger team, and helping new employees become successful early in their careers with your practice. On-boarding includes the processes that allow new employees to learn about the practice, its structure and its vision, mission and values, as well as to complete new-employee paperwork relative to benefits and legal documents such as non-competes, at-will statements and employee handbooks. For some practices, the on-boarding process consists of one or two days of activities; for others, this process that may involve a series of activities spanning one or many months.

Veterinary practices have learned that on-boarding is not merely a process for getting new employees to sign off on their new-hire paperwork. Rather, the process manifests value for the practice in various ways.

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