NOVATO, Calif. (September 2, 2008)

WHO: Barry Maxson, executive vice president of Customer Solutions for Enwisen, the leader in on-demand workforce communications solutions, and Chad Flynn, director of Compensation and HR Technology for Hannaford Bros. Co., which operates more than 170 supermarket and pharmacies in the northeast United States

WHAT: Will present “How Web-based Onboarding Engages New Hires and Speeds Time to Productivity,” a look at how employers are leveraging onboarding technologies to engage new hires with a personalized onboarding experience, and Hannaford's strategies for pre-boarding new hires – and extending onboarding to “the first 100 days” as part of their HR transformation projects

WHEN: The 21st Annual Benefits Forum and Expo will be held Sunday, September 21 through Tuesday, September 23, 2008

“How Web-based Onboarding Engages New Hires and Speeds Time to Productivity,” will be held Tuesday, September 23, 2008 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. EDT

WHERE: Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center - 201 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD

DETAILS: An effective and strategic onboarding process is critical to maximizing employees’ talents and skills, speeding time-to-productivity, reducing new hire turnover, ensuring compliance, socializing new employees to an organization’s policies and culture and ultimately driving business success. Unfortunately, many employers are challenged with manual and disparate onboarding processes that involve dozens of steps and software systems – all too often leaving new employees with a feeling of disconnect on their first day. Session attendees will learn how a personalized onboarding experience can provide new employees with policies, benefits and forms that are relevant to them, keeping them engaged to the fullest throughout their employee lifecycle. The session will also promote informed benefits consumerism and improved employee service and communication via more effective self-service, employee portals and shared services environments. In addition, attendees will learn how to effectively and strategically improve the employee experience while reducing costs.  To learn more about the Benefits Forum and Expo, visit http://benefits-forum.com/agenda.html. 

About Enwisen

Enwisen delivers technology that helps employers leverage the web to communicate with its workforce. Its AnswerSource Workforce Portal – a suite of on-demand, personalized and searchable communications applications – engages new hires with a personalized onboarding experience, promotes informed benefits consumerism and improves employee service and communication via more effective self-service, portal and shared services environments. AnswerSource is rapidly deployed, and fully hosted and maintained by Enwisen – allowing employers to dramatically improve the employee experience by making “must do” workforce communications – for all phases of the employee life cycle – more effective, more strategic and less costly. AnswerSource has produced measurable ROI for hundreds of customers like Yahoo!, Memorial Health Care, State of Montana, Hershey Entertainment & Resorts, Harper Collins, W.L. Gore & Associates and Hannaford Bros. Co. www.enwisen.com  

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Media Contact:
Barbara Levin, Enwisen
blevin@enwisen.com