Your Employee Onboarding Agent Readies Day One While HR Serves Staff
The AgentWorks Employee Onboarding Agent takes the notices, reminders, forms and access requests of hiring and separation off your HR generalist, who today chases supervisors, IT and the new hire by phone and email for every position filled. HR staff keep answering employees' questions and handling the cases that need judgment; the agent keeps every step of the checklist moving.
What it takes off your plate
Here is how onboarding runs in many city and county departments. The offer is accepted, and HR sends the paperwork. The new hire fills out the same name, address and emergency contact on form after form. Someone means to email IT and facilities, but the request goes out late or not at all.
Monday morning, the new employee arrives. There is no computer account, no desk set up, and the supervisor is in a meeting because nobody reminded them. The first day is spent waiting.
Separations are worse. An employee leaves, and it takes weeks to collect equipment, finish the exit paperwork and close their access to systems that hold constituent records. Nobody is sure which accounts are still open.
What the Employee Onboarding Agent does, step by step
The work starts with the people who need to know a new hire is coming.
- Notifies everyone. When an offer is accepted, the Employee Onboarding Agent emails the supervisor, IT, facilities and payroll with the start date, position and what each needs to do, and sets a deadline for each request.
- Welcomes the new hire. It sends the new employee a welcome email with what to bring, where to report and who will meet them, and answers routine questions about parking, hours and the first day.
- Collects the paperwork once. It sends the required forms for e-signature through DocuSign, fills in the repeated fields from what the new hire already provided, and reminds them until every form is signed.
- Chases the setup. It checks with IT and facilities before the start date, confirms the account, equipment and workspace are ready, and flags HR if anything is not.
- Schedules orientation. It books orientation and the required trainings on the new hire's and trainer's calendars in Google Workspace, and reminds the supervisor the day before the start.
- Handles benefits enrollment. It sends the benefits enrollment information, reminds the new hire before the enrollment window closes, and confirms their choices were received.
- Runs separation the same way. When an employee leaves, it notifies IT to close every account on the separation date, schedules the equipment return, sends the exit forms and confirms each step is complete.
Where the work is recorded
Every email, reminder and reply lands on the employee's record in the CRM HR already works in: who was notified, what each department confirmed, which forms are signed, which trainings are booked, and every question the new hire asked. Anyone in HR opens that record and picks up exactly where the agent left off.
The checklist itself is kept item by item, with the date each was completed and by whom. Signed forms are filed in the employee's folder in Google Workspace. For separations, the record shows each account closed and the date, which is what an auditor asks to see.
The next morning, the HR generalist sees who starts this week, which setup requests are still open, which forms are unsigned and which separations still have an account open. The Employee Onboarding Agent has already sent the reminders each of those needed.
This is the same discipline the permit desk uses. See how an agent works managing permit review cases and how another handles public records requests.
What your people do instead
Your HR staff sit with the new employee on their first morning and make them feel welcome, instead of apologizing for a missing account. They answer the questions about pay, leave and benefits that only a person should answer, and take the time a difficult separation deserves.
Supervisors spend the first day introducing their new team member to the work and the constituents they will serve. IT gets requests with enough time to do them right.
Public service depends on people who want to stay. The AgentWorks Employee Onboarding Agent keeps the notices, forms and access requests moving; your people welcome the new hire and look after the ones who serve.
One next step
If new hires at your agency spend their first day waiting, take the free Industry Assessment. It shows which workflow an agent should take first. You can also see how agents support city, county and state agencies on the government industry page.
See where the Employee Onboarding Agent would start in your government business.
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