M&A Employee Onboarding With Swag and Town Hall Questions
Treat acquired employees like new hires by triggering a communications process from the acquisition date. Send day one information and welcome swag, then use an anonymous communication to collect questions before the town hall so the People team can prepare answers.
Your employees aren't the only group that needs to go through an onboarding process. Acquired employees need one too.
How Should You Onboard Acquired Employees?
An acquired employee onboarding process can trigger from the acquisition date, just as regular onboarding can trigger from a new hire's start date. With ChangeEngine, you can build a custom process tied to that date and give people the right information as they come on board. A sample schedule includes:
- Day zero: acquisition announced.
- Day one: welcome and changes.
- Week one: new tools and logins.
- Week two: benefits elections.
- Week four: manager CC check-in.
- Day 90: integration survey.
Welcome Acquired Teams With Swag and Clear Information
A first-day message should explain changes and welcome acquired employees through swag. ChangeEngine's Swag + E-gifting Hub helps you build, procure, and design that swag. The onboarding process can also cover 401k updates.
AI Content Creation Studio can generate an FAQ, banners, and guides in a few clicks for questions about pay, payroll, benefits, PTO, layoffs, managers, reporting lines, tools, and logins. Pay, payroll, benefits, and PTO are the first things people worry about and the last things they ask out loud. Say what is known, when, before silence gets filled with rumors.
How Do You Prepare for the Town Hall?
Anonymous question collection before a town hall gives the People team time to prepare answers. ChangeEngine's Surveys & Listening Intelligence can send an anonymous communication to acquired employees or all employees and collect their questions before the event.
One example sends welcome swag two weeks before the town hall and collects anonymous questions one week before. The team brings prepared answers to town hall day zero, then updates the FAQ one week later with what employees asked.
Frequently asked questions
When should onboarding begin for acquired employees?
The example uses the acquisition date like a new hire start date. It shows the acquisition announcement on day zero, a welcome and changes on day one, tools and logins in week one, benefits elections in week two, a manager CC check-in in week four, and an integration survey on day 90.
How can HR collect questions before an M&A town hall?
ChangeEngine's Surveys & Listening Intelligence can send an anonymous communication to acquired employees or to the full employee group. The questions are collected before the town hall, giving the People team time to prepare answers. The example updates the FAQ one week after the event based on what employees asked.
