Another year, another chance for Eli to celebrate the incredible work being done in preboarding 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, especially as our client with the least engagement still hits 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 managers 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, showing how commitment from the boss is still the number one thing new hires want, a fact emphasised by their 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 client survey 100% of clients feel Eli reduces the amount of preboarding/onboarding admin they have to deal with, and 100% feel Eli has helped them reduce early attrition and reneges.
