McDonald’s is the master of workflow optimization.

They sell 2.36 billion hamburgers annually. While at college, I estimate I made at least 200,000 when I worked for them. Every one of those burgers was a process involving many tasks. In the kitchen, we had lots of processes. They were difficult to forget, and I’d often wake up shouting, “How many nuggets do you want?!”

McDonald’s processes are continually improved and optimized to be smoother and more efficient. I once discovered a technical – yet easy – process that saved me a lot of work. What was it? At the end of the article, I’ll tell you how I used a 5 step process to complete it.

In the meantime, let’s look at how Process Street can help optimize your workflows. To use workflow optimization, you need to know:

• What is workflow optimization?
• How do you optimize a workflow?
• Optimize your workflows with automation

Employee onboarding best practices are the anchor to stop you from going adrift.

Surely, you’ve had that sinking feeling? The one where you’ve invested in a super new hire, but it didn’t work out. When it comes to new hires leaving early, you’re not the only fish in the sea. Gen Z spends just over two years in one job. That doesn’t seem long, leaving you with the feeling that something’s off.

What’s more worrying is that 30% of employees leave a job in the first 90 days. Maybe the answer is to be more realistic with new hires. By that, do we mean to tell them Gary in HR has a habit of misplacing paperwork, usually passports? No, there’s a better way. 

The truth is that excellent onboarding leads to 69% of employees staying with you for up to three years. Want in on some of the action? We thought so. That’s why Process Street has written this article to point you in the right direction.

These are the 5 best practices for employee onboarding:

• Onboarding tip #1: Use preboarding to get a quick start
• Onboarding tip #2: Have an onboarding roadmap
• Onboarding tip #3: Use your new hire’s insight
• Onboarding tip #4: Involve your entire organization
• Onboarding tip #5: Plan beyond the first year

HR digital transformation reminded me of South Korea.

On a recent trip to Seoul, I automated my whole journey. My train tickets, flight tickets, insurance, and apartment key were on my phone. As a result, I felt more engaged on holiday. Which made me wonder, did I ever want to carry paper documents again?

Okay, carrying paper isn’t a difficult task. But as a process, it’s convoluted. Plus, it’s slow. I wasted less time due to automation. By adapting to change, I had a lot more fun.

Adapting to change – technological change – is at the heart of an HR digital transformation. However, it’s not an easy one to get right. It’s often expensive, with HR tech spending up by 57%. But try not to worry. This Process Street post will explain how to do it without breaking the bank:

• What is HR digital transformation?
• HR digital transformation benefits
• HR digital transformation roadmap
• HR digital transformation examples

My psychological contract was beginning to wear thin. 

Rats surrounded me. Then two tons of glass nearly fell on top of me. My job description, at that time, did not include kindness, reciprocity, and understanding. But an unwritten agreement with my employer made me include those qualities in my work.

The agreement I’m describing is an intangible concept. Please don’t be embarrassed; I had to look that word up too. One thing you might want to look up is that 57% of employees quit their jobs due to feeling disrespected at work. That’s where understanding and respecting the psychological contract can help.

At Process Street, we know you can trawl Google like a fishing boat with a broken net. That’s why we write posts to make topics easily accessible. Here’s one about the psychological contract:

• What is the psychological contract?
• The importance of the psychological contract
• Psychological contract example
• What happens when you breach a psychological contract in the workplace?
• Ways to improve and maintain the psychological contract

When I researched the unlimited PTO policy, I started thinking of a famous spy.

That’s because my eight-week paid time off was due to James Bond. 

I realized that while I sat in a Shanghai bakery. Ten years earlier, I’d bought a set of James Bond books in a bric-a-brac store. Before coming to China, I’d sold the books and made a considerable profit. 

I hadn’t intentionally taken an eight-week vacation, but I’ll explain that paradox at the end of the article. 

Whether eight weeks or one week, PTO (paid time off) is essential. It increases:

• Performance
• Productivity
• Well-being

Recently, unlimited PTO has exploded in popularity. This Process Street post will guide you through the drawbacks and benefits of this ever-popular policy. You can also use our new template on the subject with your free Process Street account.

Here are four key topics to help you understand and use an unlimited PTO policy:

• What is unlimited PTO?
• 3 Drawbacks of unlimited PTO
• 3 Benefits of unlimited PTO
• An unlimited PTO policy example

Employees leave their jobs to avoid burnout, make extra money, and secure career advancement. Those grounds sit on the foundations of the War for Talent and the Great Resignation.

Due to this construct, almost 64% of companies say employee retention is more problematic than recruiting. With the odds against you, how can employee churn be prevented?

Well, for starters, you can explore organizational commitment.

The theory of organizational commitment persuades employees to stay for the long term. It helps to avoid churn by making employees feel more valued. This informative post from Process Street will show you how that works.

The five organizational commitment topics you’ll learn about are:

• What is organizational commitment?
• How can organizational commitment help retention?
• Why HR managers should prioritize organizational commitment
• The three types of organizational commitment
• Organizational commitment and employee engagement

You need a 30-60-90 day plan more than ever.

Hiring the right person can be insanely difficult. Not to mention that the hiring process itself can last up to 23.8 days. That means you’ve invested over three weeks before your new hire starts.

Whenever a new hire joins your company, do you wonder how long they’ll last? Well, 20% of new hires quit within their first 45 days. Moreover, they could be on another company’s poaching list. In a talent shortage, that’s all you need. Especially with all the recruitment emails you’ve been sending out. 

With many areas in human resources that can go wrong, how can you go right? And how are other employers getting it right? Specifically, companies such as:

• Dupont
• Lockheed Martin
• Microsoft

The best way to ape the success of these companies is by nurturing talent. That all starts with great onboarding and a retention strategy from day one. That’s where the 30-60-90 day plan can help you.

This Process Street post will guide you through using and understanding a 30-60-90 day plan. You can even use the template immediately with your free Process Street account!

Here’s your guide to using a 30-60-90 day plan to improve new employee experience:

• An introduction to the 30-60-90 day plan
• Using a 30-60-90 day plan
• Tips for HR managers using the 30-60-90 day plan
• The 30-60-90 day plan for new hires
• Performance review for a 30-60-90 day plan

In early 2022 the Process Street team attended HR Transform at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

We had a great time hanging out with customers and touting the benefits of process over project management.

Our CEO also got to sit on a thrilling, standing room only, panel about employee onboarding.

The panel was headed up by Kevin Grossman of Talent Board.

The attendees were:

• Vinay Patankar, CEO and Co-founder of Process Street.
• Danielle Monaghan, VP Global Talent at Uber (now Google)
• Greg Russell – Head of Talent at Snapdocs

The focus of the conversation was “prioritizing onboarding to help boost retention“.

Below we pulled out some of the most interested parts of the discussion:

• Preboarding helps retention
• The candidate decides whether to participate in preboarding
• Technology can make onboarding feel personal
• Lack of visibility into onboarding can be costly
• Ensuring retention must be an ongoing process

Smaller teams generally have lower capacity. If you have a small human resources team, you’ll know that already. You’ll also know retention is a big problem – and hits harder – when you have fewer HR employees (and less time).

This post explains how small HR teams can save time when onboarding. We’re built a bunch of custom HR templates for you to use. Learn how Process Street can make optimizing your small HR team a breeze. 

This article covers:

• The biggest challenges your small HR team faces
• How can your team effectively onboard new hires?
• Reinvent onboarding with process management software

New hire churn is expensive. Working in HR, you know the cost of having to replace an employee once they hand in their resignation.

A recent survey found that 65% of workers are actively searching for new employment. If you’ve worked in HR for some time, the thought of two-thirds of your employees walking is very worrying. The cost of a new hire found through a recruitment agency can be up to $7500 or more. To start building employee retention early on, and prevent excessive hiring costs, it pays to focus on a perfect onboarding experience.

Here at Process Street, we’ve extensively studied onboarding to help prevent exorbitant costs. One of our greatest successes has been in looking at the recurring tasks involved in onboarding. We’ve helped to provide insight into what can go wrong, and also built templates to direct companies away from excessive spending and losses. 

We believe you can create a perfect onboarding experience for new hires. We also think it can be done without breaking the bank. Please read on to find out more, and utilize our best onboarding templates:

• What makes a good onboarding experience?
• Why is a good onboarding experience important?
• Employee onboarding and retention
• When does employee onboarding start?
• How long should employee onboarding last?
• How to automate employee onboarding
• Employee onboarding for small businesses
• Ask for feedback to help improve employee onboarding