Welcome email for new employee
- Checklist items
- 37
- Items due before or on day one
- 17
- Items due in the first 30 days
- 20
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A welcome email for a new employee is short and from the manager: the logistics of day one, what to bring for the I-9 and the forms, the one person to ask anything for the first month, and the handbook to read and acknowledge before arriving. It goes about a week before the start date and it is the first item on the onboarding checklist the new hire sees. The onboarding checklist on this site lists it with the rest, free and without an account; HeadcountDesk Pro sends it and records it.
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The morning of day one
Date, time, place or link, who meets them, what happens first. One paragraph, specific enough that the new hire is not guessing at the door.
Bring, read, sign
The I-9 documents by name, the forms, the handbook link with the acknowledgement to sign before day one. The free employee handbook template on this site produces the handbook.
The person
One name for anything for a month, with email and phone. Not the manager, not an inbox.
Recorded
Sent from the manager's address and ticked on the checklist. From the vendors' own pricing pages: Homebase lists Essentials at $24 per location per month billed annually or $30 monthly, with a free Basic plan for one location of up to ten employees; BambooHR lists Core at $10 and Pro at $17 per employee per month; Deputy lists Core at $6.50 per user per month. HeadcountDesk Pro is $24 a month per location.
Welcome email for new employee: common questions
What should a welcome email say?
When and where to arrive, what to bring, who to ask, what to read.
How long?
Under a page. The checklist carries the thirty items; the email carries the four that matter before day one.
Is the onboarding checklist free?
Yes, with no account. Pro sends and records the email.
Will it do what you need for Welcome email for new employee?
Tell us what your business needs and we will tell you straight whether HeadcountDesk Pro does it today, whether it is coming, or whether you are better off with something else. A person reads these and replies.