Eli Wrapped 2025

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Another year, another chance for Eli to celebrate the incredible work being done in pre-boarding and onboarding across the globe. From new hires starting their careers with a bang, to line managers getting hands-on, 2025 has been a year of engagement, insight, and impact. Here's what our year in onboarding looked like.

New hires have been highly engaged. In 2025, 93% of employees completed their Eli journeys, showing just how vital a smooth onboarding experience can be. This is down a little on 2024, but only by 2%, so nothing to worry about there. Our client with the least engagement still hit a whopping 85%.

On average, each session lasted 8 minutes and 51 seconds, with new hires logging in 17.1 times over the course of their onboarding. If we separate experienced hires (EH) from early careers (EC), we see EH logging in 11.2 times and EC 25.8. Indeed, one of our early career clients saw graduates hit 58.1 sessions.

Across all clients, we saw well over 1,000,000 minutes spent on Eli, enough time to walk around the earth (apparently). And an astonishing 49,475 average page views per client, proof that when onboarding is done right, people stick around and interact.

Enhancing line manager experience

Line manager involvement continues to play a pivotal role in successful onboarding, with 78.6% actively engaging in the process this year. One client, a Formula One team, stood out once again, boasting almost 100% line manager involvement, a fact emphasised by their own 100% new hire engagement.

Driving organisational success

Onboarding isn't just about getting new hires up to speed, it's about reducing early attrition and giving HR teams the tools to succeed. In our 2026 Global Client Survey, 100% of clients felt Eli reduces the amount of pre-boarding and onboarding admin they have to deal with, and 100% felt Eli has helped them reduce early attrition and reneges.

"One graduate client saw a 3% reduction in grad reneges, even though their cohort was only on the system for 3 months!"

Cost and quality of onboarding

New starters consistently rated their pre-boarding and onboarding experiences highly, with an average satisfaction of 4.7/5, and the lowest rating recorded at 4.4/5. And, across every one of the hundreds of thousands of sessions across Eli, only 4% of people were unhappy at any point (Eli tracking wellbeing throughout the pre-boarding and onboarding experience, and alerting line managers when necessary). The numbers speak for themselves, high engagement, happy new hires, and structured onboarding equals real organisational value and huge ROI.

Looking ahead

Exciting things are on the horizon for 2026 too. Our newly launched line manager dashboard streamlines admin for managers and helps them keep an eye on their new hires' engagement. And Noggin, our AI admin support tool, is now live too, designed to help teams use Eli better and analyse the wealth of data on Eli's dashboard, enabling our partners to create more engaging pre-boarding and onboarding experiences that set people up for success.

See Eli Wrapped 2024 for last year's numbers.

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