At a company I worked at, we discovered that former employees still had active accounts. Not one or two people who left last month. Dozens. Some had quit over a year earlier. Their credentials worked just fine on email, file sharing, CRM, internal tools - the lot. Nobody revoked their
Contracts with notice periods are everywhere - office leases, supplier agreements, trial employments. Cancel on time and it's a five-minute task. Forget and you've created many hours of extra work, lost money, and a distraction that can drag on for weeks or months. The person responsible
Two hours. Once a year. That's all it takes to close security holes that could sink your company. Few companies do this. And when they do, it's half-assed. The cost to do it is small. The cost of not doing it can be massive. It has
Employees who have a poor onboarding experience are twice as likely to start job hunting soon after joining. That's not a vague correlation - it's a direct line from chaotic first week to updated CV and exit interview. The numbers get worse. Research from SHRM shows
New hires who experience poor onboarding are twice as likely to look for another job within the first year. That statistic alone should make every operations person sit up straight. But the real cost runs deeper than turnover. When new hire onboarding fails, everyone pays Picture day one for your
It's 2023 and I'm staring at my calendar, counting recurring reminders. Security audit. Book salary meetings. Set up the spring hackathon. Book the offsite. Remind the team about goal-setting. Fifteen, maybe twenty items that exist nowhere except my head and my personal calendar. If I got