<story><title>Optimize Onboarding</title><url>https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/08/28/Optimize-Onboarding.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pathseeker</author><text>&amp;gt;It takes roughly 2 weeks to form a habit; it takes roughly two weeks to get comfortable in a new environment. A common mistake is to treat a new report’s first couple weeks like college orientation - social, light hearted, get-to-know-you stuff. If your report spends the first two weeks reading C# documentation and having lunch out on the town with the team, guess what, they’ve just normalized that behavior as what the role is.&lt;p&gt;Humans are not dogs. I&amp;#x27;ve worked at companies with both styles of on-boarding (two weeks of doing nothing vs jumping right in). The output in a month was realistically no different.</text></comment>
<story><title>Optimize Onboarding</title><url>https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/08/28/Optimize-Onboarding.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>interrupt_</author><text>I once got told by a manager that they didn&amp;#x27;t expect new hires to make big contributions in the first year. That was after I complained I was feeling very unproductive and wanted some help to speed things up. I quit after a few months because the slowness of everything around me was making me depressed.&lt;p&gt;This was at a top5 website company.</text></comment>