ENGAGEMENT
case study
More than
words on a page Induction and onboarding is a critical time to engage new recruits, yet handing someone a cumbersome employee manual or referring them to a staid intranet page will no longer get cut-through. Here’s one company that has exploded traditional norms
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Does your employee handbook quote rocker Frank Zappa? Perhaps it includes Hulk comic strips and provides a handy definition of what a geek is? Such is the case with IT firm Ecetera, which recently launched The Ecetera Employee Handbook. Written with tongue firmly in cheek, the 25-page document sums up work at the IT start-up, which now employs 100-plus people in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. While there’s an undeniable sense of fun at play, there are some serious underlying messages as well. Human Capital talks to the chief ‘HR overlord’, Olivier Lambel, Ecetera’s head of talent exploration, about the project.