onboarding

English

Etymology

on board +‎ -ing, 1970s management jargon.

Noun

onboarding (countable and uncountable, plural onboardings)

1. (business) The process of bringing a new employee on board, incorporating training and orientation.

   Synonyms: onstaffing, orientation

   • 2009, George B. Bradt, Mary Vonnegut, Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 7:

     Onboarding gets your new employees up to speed twice as fast as separate efforts to recruit, orient, and manage.

   • 2022 October 24, Peter Walker, “Last morning in No 10 is straightforward – but what now for Liz Truss?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     As Sunak disappears inside, pursued by the clicks of photographers’ cameras, the new prime minister will begin a flurry of activity, with civil service staff guiding a new team of political appointees through what is known as “onboarding”, involving everything from computer log-ins to security passes.

Verb

onboarding

1. present participle and gerund of onboard

References

• Joe Miller (2018 February 9) “Are these the worst examples of business jargon?”, in BBC News‎^[2], BBC

Further reading

• onboarding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia