Onboarding employees during a pandemic

Recently, I was talking with someone about how difficult on-boarding of new employees has become during COVID-19. He was describing a situation of trying to add new interns and employees quickly to back fill the workload that he had seen and how challenging it was on the technology side. I began telling the story of how we had built both a strong process and technical stack that made virtual on-boarding and off-boarding a breeze.

Recommended Technology Stack

  • Azure Active Directory
  • Microsoft 365
  • AWS Workspaces

Bringing a user on-board using Azure Active Directory

STEP ONE is to add the new user into Azure AD, making sure to fill out all of the fields.

 

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