Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth

Chapter 8. SPEEDING PRODUCTIVITY IN NEWCOMERS AND AVOIDING KNOWLEDGE DRAIN

Whether they are growing to take advantage of a new market opportunity, restructuring to remain competitive, or simply trying to cope with attrition due to retirements and turnover, one thing is certain: organizations are increasingly dealing with newcomers. More than 25 percent of all workers in the United States have been with their company less than a year, and more than 33 percent, less than two years. American workers, on average, change jobs ten times between ages eighteen and thirty-seven.^[65] As a result, speeding up the network development of new hires through more effective on-boarding has become a critical means of driving performance.

One of the many network ...