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Onboarding, in plain English.
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Onboarding is the process of bringing a new hire from offer acceptance to a fully productive employee.
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It covers paperwork such as statutory IDs, banking, and contracts, plus training, equipment, and introduction to team and tools. The steps touching the first pay run set the real deadline. Workzoom Onboarding sends paperwork digitally before day one and tracks every task from one dashboard.
How Onboarding works.
Onboarding is the sequence between an accepted offer and a productive, fully provisioned employee: paperwork, statutory registrations, payroll and banking setup, equipment, access, and orientation. Most steps have dependencies and owners in different departments, which is why onboarding fails on coordination rather than on any single task. The first pay run is the practical deadline for the payroll-critical subset, since banking and tax details collected after that point mean an off-cycle payment instead of a clean first cheque.
Where Onboarding goes wrong.
- Tax and banking details collected too late for the first pay run force a manual off-cycle payment, which is the most common failure point.
- A second is access provisioned by ticket rather than by role, so two people in the same job end up with different systems and permissions.
- A third is treating onboarding as finished on day one while statutory registrations are still outstanding, which surfaces weeks later as a compliance gap nobody was assigned to close.
- 2000 Running payroll since Workzoom has run Canadian payroll for 25+ years.
- Canadian data residency AWS Canada (ca-central-1). Canadian customer data stays in Canada.
- SOC 2-aligned controls Encrypted at rest, role-based access, immutable audit logs.
- Trusted in production County of Renfrew, Silvera for Seniors, and Cable Bahamas. Built for 50 to 5,000 employees.
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How Onboarding runs on Workzoom.
Onboarding is part of the Workzoom Talent Suite. Workzoom runs HR, workforce, and talent on a single employee record across ten countries: Canada, the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. Full gross-to-net payroll runs live in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. Pricing starts at $4 per employee per suite per month.
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