Remote

Remote onboarding tips from Asana’s Head of People, Anna Binder

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✔️ How to use the pre-boarding period; ✔️ Creating a community around new hires using Slack; ✔️ Using Employees Resource Groups to connect new colleagues to the more tenured ones.

How WhatsApp Onboards New Hires Remotely

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✔️ Give new starters user perspective by engaging them in the research process; ✔️ The importance of helping new hires get past the impostor syndrome.

How we approach remote employee onboarding at Intercom

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✔️ Provide new hires previous All Hands videos; ✔️ Use "Monthly Social Connect" sessions to ensure a sense of belonging; ✔️ Use games to make the onboarding process fun.

Best practices for remote onboarding

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✔️ Provide new hires with a templated document that outlines the “how-to” of the team (including elements such as links to documentation, code repositories, monitoring and logging tools, and the names of the members); ✔️ Use a "Friday Funday" Slack Thread, to ask different fun questions, such as “What is the most unbelievable fact about you?” with pictures; ✔️ Use pair struggling, in which remote new hires shadow experienced teammates, watching them debug issues and navigate challenges

A Guide For Onboarding Remote Engineers

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✔️ Use peer programming to empower new developers; ✔️ Establish a code review process as part of onboarding;

The 13 best questions to ask during the remote onboarding process

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✔️ When you’re co-located, it’s easier to understand the working style of a new employee, but how do you replicate that in a remote world? ✔️ In a remote work environment, working preferences are learned through trial-and-error, rather than the usual observation that happens in-person and preempts misunderstandings and work conflicts; ✔️ The 13 most essential questions on work preferences to ask – and what asking them will reveal to you during the remote onboarding process.

How to Onboard Remote Team Members