告别无聊的入职培训

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Six months later, those who went through the employee-centered orientation were up to 32% less likely to have quit than those who sat through a typical company-focused onboarding process.

六个月后，接受以员工为中心的入职培训的员工的离职概率，相比接受以公司为中心的典型适职流程的员工的离职概率低了32%。

Other companies rely on zany programs to prevent boredom while new hires are ramping up. San Antonio-based Web-hosting firm Rackspace Inc.'s frenetic four-day orientation teems with games, skits, costumes, thumping music, and a limbo bar, says Lawrence Reyes, the company's manager of onboarding.

另一些公司则是用一些搞笑好玩的项目来防止新人在入职过程中感到无聊。圣安东尼奥虚拟主机公司Rackspace Inc.的适职管理负责人劳伦斯•雷耶斯(Lawrence Reyes)说，该公司的疯狂入职培训为期四天，有游戏、滑稽短剧、化装派对、重型音乐和林波舞(limbo)等活动。

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And Bazaarvoice, a tech firm in Austin, Texas, sends incoming employees on a weeklong scavenger hunt designed to bring them up to speed on company culture and lingo.

得克萨斯州奥斯汀(Austin)科技公司Bazaarvoice安排新入职员工参加一场为期一周的寻宝活动，目的是让他们熟悉公司的文化和掌故。

Benefits paperwork does get done at some point; Facebook Inc., among others, sends new hires key documents to complete before their start date.

有关福利待遇的文书工作总是需要做的。Facebook等公司是在新员工入职日之前把重要文件发给他们填写。

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That frees employees to do other important things, such as getting to know colleagues. Rob Cross, a management professor at the University of Virginia, has found new workers stay on the job longer when they're plugged into a social group early on.

这使得员工能够腾出手来做其他重要的事情，比如认识同事。弗吉尼亚大学(University of Virginia)管理学教授罗布•克罗斯(Rob Cross)发现，如果提前把新员工放入一个相互往来的团体中，他们的任职时间会更加长久。

Google Inc., which onboarded some 5, 000 new hires in 2012, has experimented with its orientation procedures to help new staffers, dubbed 'Nooglers, ' make more social connections and get up to speed more quickly. For instance, the company has tested whether the size of an orientation group affected how new workers assimilate.

谷歌(Google Inc.)在2012年招了大约5,000名新人。它曾试验用适职流程来帮助新员工（被称为“Noogler”，即新谷歌人之意）结识更多的人、更快地进入状态。比如该公司曾试验入职培训群体的规模对新员工的融入有无影响。

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Google's finding: Workers who went through orientation in cohorts of about a dozen people felt more comfortable and created stronger social bonds than those put into larger groups.

谷歌发现，在十来个人的团体中参加入职培训的员工，相比在更大规模群体中参加的员工感到更加自在，并结成了更加牢固的人际关系。

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