What it costs you today
In a 500-employee firm that hires between 25 and 40 people a year, the first day of a new joiner is built on a printed checklist, an HR email that nobody reads and a manager who improvises on the fly. IT spends 4 to 6 hours per starter coordinating laptop, AD, M365, Teams, distribution lists and the welcome pack, and a third of those tasks slip through the cracks in the first week. A poorly documented hire leaves the employee without access to critical systems for 24 to 48 hours, opening SOC 2 audit findings and burning the most expensive hours of senior staff. "By the time the laptop is ready the new hire has already decided whether to stay" is what one HR director said after losing two engineers in 90 days. What is the cost of a senior engineer losing five days of productivity to a broken onboarding process?
What changes when you have it
New hires open a Canvas app embedded in Teams on day one, ticking off tasks with their photo, signing the contract digitally, watching the welcome video, scheduling with their mentor from the phone and confirming laptop receipt in a single click. HR reclaims 4 to 6 hours per onboarding, the new joiner feels guided from minute one, and the hiring manager sees a live progress dashboard across the cohort on a Power BI view wired to Dataverse, while Power Automate provisions accounts in AD and M365 in parallel. The customer receives a branded Canvas app in Teams connected to SharePoint Lists, Dataverse and a compliance evidence dashboard. The solution is in production at a 600-employee services firm in Cali processing 28 hires per month, where 30-day attrition fell 22% and time-to-productive was cut from 11 to 5 days. The investment pays back through retention and recovered hours in under a quarter.
Canvas app with checklist, documents and digital signature
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