New Hire Onboarding

Making remote onboarding feel more personal. A high-touch onboarding experience designed to help new Apple Cloud Services employees connect, find support, and feel part of the team from day one.

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ACS New Hire Onboarding

Making a remote first week feel a lot less remote.

At the height of COVID, new Apple Cloud Services employees were starting their jobs without the hallway introductions, coffee chats, and spontaneous connections that normally make a new workplace feel like a community.

So we built those connections back in—virtually.

The Welcome Experience

New hires were automatically connected to the people, information, and conversations they needed from day one.

A manager welcome. Managers received a simple checklist with a welcome note, first-day logistics, introductions, and essential resources.
A place to connect. Every new hire joined a dedicated Slack channel for questions, advice, and peer connection. The best part? It became self-sustaining: “old new hires” started helping the “new new hires.”
Real human connection. Monday welcome meetings gave new hires a place to ask questions and learn about ACS. Friday social mixers provided a more relaxed way to meet people, swap stories, and end the first week together.

Beyond COVID

What started as a response to remote work became an ongoing onboarding model, one designed to make every new employee feel welcomed, connected, and supported from the start.

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