Korn Ferry asked onboarding related questions to their global panel of executives. They found that only 30% of executives are satisfied with their onboarding process.

The question has always been: How much is at stake? Is it a big deal?

It is always hard to get an accurate answer for the cost of bad onboarding. We created a model in our research (Onboarding: Speeding the Way to Productivity) to explain it as shown below.

The key view takeaway from the Korn Ferry survey is that executives count the time it takes not in weeks or days—but years. 87% said it was more than one year and 54% said it takes more than three years to be fully productive!

Onboarding is a big deal!