Beyond the Zoom Wave: How to Virtually Onboard New Employees and Create Belonging

For employee experience champions, 2020 is the Great Experiment. Or shall we say experiments? Engaging employees during a pandemic that has forced employees to work at a distance is pushing employers to try new tactics and approaches.
You try things. You adapt when they don’t work.
That was the case for Paige Erickson, people operations manager at fintech company Branch. Her company originally replaced regular in-office happy hours and coffee breaks with video calls inviting the whole company. “We tried it,” she said. “It didn’t work.”
Instead, her company shifted to a model of virtual employee gatherings and activities tied to specific milestones.
You can read how in the full Reworked article here.
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Scott serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of NovoEd, which was acquired by Devonshire in October 2018. He also leads the education technology team for Devonshire Investors, the private investment arm of Fidelity. Before joining Devonshire in 2017, Scott was the president of Capella University, and has served as the chief executive of three other technology services businesses since the late 1990s. Scott is passionate about the potential for innovation and technology to aid the transformation of learning at all levels, particularly for the enterprise and the mid-career learner.
In addition to the field of education technology, Scott enjoys history, photography, and Nordic ski racing. Scott holds a B.A. in geology from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford University.