We cut our onboarding checklist from 41 items to 12
New hires kept asking the same five questions. The checklist was answering everything except those.
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Step 1 · Field Note
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Step 2 · Turning Point
The manager question that changed what I thought HR was for
A warehouse manager asked me whose side I was on. My honest answer took two years to work out.
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Step 3 · What We Tried
We tested AI drafts for policy FAQs. Editing time told us more than output.
A six-week trial with non-sensitive inputs, a stopwatch, and one skeptical colleague.
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Step 4 · Turning Point
What changed when I became the only HR person
In a big team I had a lane. At a 60-person startup, I had to decide what the lane was, and say it out loud.
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Step 5 · Field Note
We stopped the monthly HR update meeting. Here’s what replaced it.
Forty supervisors, one hour, and very little that reached the production floor.
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