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Did you know that a great onboarding experience can improve employee retention by over 80%?

When a new hire walks through your door (or logs into their first virtual meeting), the clock starts ticking on their long-term commitment to your company. A chaotic, unprepared first week tells a new employee that your business operates that way every day. On the flip side, a seamless, welcoming, and structured introduction sets them up to be productive, engaged, and loyal team members for years to come.

If you want to protect your recruiting investment and boost retention, make sure you hit these three onboarding essentials:

👉 Tech-Ready on Day One: Nothing kills enthusiasm faster than a new hire spending their entire first morning waiting on IT setup, missing passwords, or unboxed hardware. Have their email, software access, and devices completely configured and waiting for them.

👉 A Clear First-Week Roadmap: Don’t leave your new employee wondering what to do next. Provide a structured schedule for their first 5 days, including scheduled training blocks, team introductions, and casual lunch meetups to help them integrate into your workplace culture.

👉 Ditch the Paperwork Avalanche: Walking into a mountain of physical tax forms, direct deposit authorizations, and handbook acknowledgments on day one feels tedious. Use a digital onboarding portal to let your new hires complete all their compliance paperwork.

How BCN Services Takes Your Onboarding to the Next Level:

As your PEO partner, we don't just help you manage your staff—we give you the corporate-grade tools to impress them from the very start.

Through our Next Level HR Support, BCN Services provides your business with an intuitive, cloud-based employee portal. Your new hires can review benefits packages, e-sign handbooks, and submit payroll documentation cleanly and digitally. Plus, our HR specialists are always on standby to help you draft comprehensive training plans and optimize your overall talent strategy.

Let’s transform your hiring workflows into a retention engine.

Ready to upgrade your employee experience? Call BCN Services today at (734) 412-7679.

Question:
Do we have to pay nonexempt employees when we close due to severe weather?

Answer:
When you close due to inclement weather, nonexempt employees (those who are entitled to overtime) need to be paid only for actual hours worked plus any reporting time pay that might be required by state law.

You have the following options when it comes to if or how you pay nonexempt employees for time they missed:
1. Pay them for the time, even though they didn’t work
2. Require they take the day off unpaid
3. Require they use any available vacation time or paid time off (PTO)
4. Allow them to choose between taking unpaid time off or using vacation or PTO

All four options have their merits. We generally recommend option 4, allowing nonexempt employees the choice of using vacation time or PTO.

This Q&A does not constitute legal advice and does not address state or local law.