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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the new Corner Office, the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the new world of work,

where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.

Today's tip is about how to make a new person on your team feel welcome, even if you're all working from home.

In this era of social distancing, whole organizations went virtual quite quickly.

This was disorienting for everyone, but imagine how disorienting it was for people who started new jobs in late February or early March.

Few places do onboarding well in normal times.

These COVID era new hires had to figure out workflows and office cultures from afar.

Your troubleshooting on your new laptop before you even know who does tech support.

You might not know if everyone was meeting without you.

Hopefully, as we near the two month mark, people have figured it out.

But as the economy slowly opens back up, organizations will start hiring again.

As more offices make use of virtual teams in the future, plenty of folks will have to figure out how to make new hires feel welcome when you can't necessarily take them out to lunch on day one.

Fortunately, there are a few simple ways to do that.

Aaron Stewart is the co-founder of the recruitment platform, Job.com.

Even before social distancing, Job.com had experimented with virtual work.

Stewart recently shared some practical suggestions with me for what you should do on a new employees first day.

First, he says, have a virtual meet and greet.

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