The employee experience is exactly what it sounds like. It describes how employees experience working for your company, and it’s too large to be seen as wholly positive or wholly negative. Frequently, there are positive aspects of miserable employee experiences and negative aspects to happy ones. There are too many factors that cause employees to become engaged or disengaged, to be more or less productive, and to stay or leave. We can't possibly review all of them in one blog post. So, let’s focus on one major factor in employee retention: new-hire orientation. New-hire orientation is the first interaction of the employee experience for official employees. Prior to that, every interaction is between a company and a prospective hire.

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