Onboarding at Bramble

Onboarding is incredibly important at Bramble. We don’t expect you to hit the ground running from day one.

We highly recommend taking at least two full weeks for onboarding and only in week three starting with team specific onboarding and training. Please feel free to participate in your team’s work in your first two weeks, but don’t feel like you have to contribute heavily.

All onboarding steps are in the onboarding issue template which is owned by the People Experience Team. The onboarding process for the new team member is self-driven and self-learning, whilst also remaining as asynchronous as possible settling into the remote life at Bramble.

The People Experience Associate assigned to the team members specific onboarding will open the onboarding issue at least 4 days prior to the hire date.

Each onboarding issue has a main section that contains tasks relevant to all Bramble team-members and a due date of 30 days. Below the main section are department and role-specific tasks. Some roles and teams have tasks that link to a supplemental issue template or an additional onboarding page. Reach out to your onboarding buddy or other Bramble team members if you need help understanding or completing any of your tasks.

Through onboarding issues, you should gain access to our team member baseline entitlements. On Day 2 of onboarding an Access Request will be generated, if a template has been created for the role. Access requests are owned by the IT team. If you have any access requests related questions, please reach out to #it-help in Slack.

In certain instances, the People Experience team may not be able to assist with onboardings due to a national holiday or Family and Friends Day. These specific dates are documented in the People Experience team Handbook page.

Onboarding Check-In Call

All new team members are invited to the regular Check-Ins with their manager.

This call is available for new team members to ask questions about onboarding, benefits, and anything else they have not been able to find the answer to. It is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) style call. Coming prepared with questions is always encouraged.

Slack Channel Support for New Team Members

By default, all new team members are added to the below Slack channels from day 1 to ensure that they are able to ask any questions or for assistance in the correct channels upfront:

#new_team_members
#peopleops
#it_help
#questions
#whats-happening-at-Bramble

Managers of New Team Members

An issue is created for new team members at least 4 business days prior to their start date. The Manager and a People Experience Associate will be assigned to this issue. Managers, People Experience and IT Ops all have tasks that need to be completed prior to the start date to ensure a smooth and successful onboarding process. For questions or help with any of these tasks feel free to reach out in the issue by mentioning @people-exp or adding a question in the #peopleops Slack channel.

Compliance

The People Experience Associate completes a monthly audit of all open onboarding issues to ensure that the new team member, manager and People Experience team tasks are completed. More importantly, there are certain tasks which need to be completed in line with our company compliance (security, payroll, etc).

If any tasks are still outstanding, the People Experience Associate will ping the relevant members on the issue requesting action on the items or checking whether the issue can be closed.

It remains the responsibility of the People Experience Associate to close the issue and remain compliant.

Completing Onboarding Issue

To ensure a successful completion of the onboarding issue, it is important that all tasks are checked off, whether the task is applicable to the onboarding team member or not. Checking the box indicates one of the following:

I have completed this task
I have checked and this task is not applicable to me

Onboarding Issue Template Links

These templates are used by the People Experience team to onboard new team members.

Role Specific Templates

These are added to the “All Team Member” Template

Bramble Onboarding