You have hired remote software developers in Central Asia to drive your latest application past the finish line — but what happens next? Finding, recruiting, and hiring remote tech talent from locations around the globe presents its own challenge, but it is far from the only challenge that U.S.-based tech companies will face as they work to build a talented remote workforce.
When you have found the right fit for your team and make the decision to hire a potential candidate, it is time to onboard new employees — which presents its own set of challenges. Truss provides tech companies with an end-to-end global hiring platform that will work together with you every step of the way to find, recruit, hire, onboard, and manage remote employees, but it is still important for you to understand the best practices for global team onboarding in emerging markets like Central Asia.
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4 Key Steps to Onboarding Remote Employees in Central Asia
The onboarding process will vary from business to business and company to company — but onboarding best practices provide a standard blueprint for you to follow. The key steps involved in the onboarding process include creating a legal framework to protect your best interests, establishing communication and team culture, creating an onboarding roadmap, and navigating technical logistics.
By following these simple steps and industry best practices, your new employees can easily navigate the onboarding process and hit the ground running:
1. Create a Legal Framework for Onboarding
Local employment laws are put in place to protect workers in Central Asian countries and tech companies that hire remote employees in these countries are subject to compliance fines. This makes it critical for hiring companies to create a legal framework for the onboarding process.
Many countries in the region have adopted digital employment contracts via central government portals that hiring companies need to be aware of to remain compliant with labor laws. U.S.-based tech companies will need to make the decision to create their own local entity in Central Asia (which involves significant costs) or use an Employer of Record like Truss to manage the legal aspects of the onboarding process.
2. Establish Clear Communication and Team Culture
The next step is to establish clear communication and a team culture with remote employees. It is important to establish and detail the business hierarchy with new employees, creating 1-on-1 opportunities for remote employees to create a safe environment for communication and feedback, and allowing remote employees to ask questions. To ensure that remote employees understand the information they are provided with, it is important to implement high-context communication by asking questions like — Can you explain to me your task? This creates a better understanding between managers and remote employees.
3. Create a 30-60-90 Onboarding Roadmap
It is important for tech companies hiring remote employees to create a structured onboarding roadmap. The 30-60-90 roadmap is widely accepted as a best practice with four phases — Pre-Boarding, Week 1, Month 1, and Month 3. The pre-boarding phase focuses on compliance and logistics and involves providing remote employees with hardware. The Week 1 phase emphasizes connecting with remote employees by providing them with a Cultural Buddy. The Month 1 phase involves frequent 1-on-1 meetings focused on setting technical goals. The Month 3 phase is the transition phase where remote employees graduate to owning their own projects.
4. Navigate Technical Logistics
The last aspect of the onboarding process is to navigate technical and practical logistics for remote employees that are being onboarded. This part of the process may involve translating your employee handbook to more familiar languages or providing language aids — even if remote employees have a good understanding of English. Additional technical logistics that may be involved in the onboarding process may include establishing a holiday calendar for remote employees that includes local holidays and ensuring that remote employees have access to high-speed internet, even going so far as to provide support with a mobile hotspot.
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Simplify Remote Employee Onboarding with Truss
The onboarding process can be a challenge with local employees — but it can be even more complicated when it involves remote employees from around the world. This guide to Best Practices for Global Team Onboarding in Central Asia will help you gain a better understanding of how to approach the process.
We hope that this breakdown has helped — but when you partner with Truss, the process is even simpler. Truss provides an end-to-end support system for U.S.-based tech companies. We will help you find, recruit, and hire the tech talent you need based on your hiring criteria, and when that part of the process is complete, Truss will onboard your remote employees and function as your Employer of Record. This allows you to stay focused on your own business goals.
Contact Truss today to learn more about how we can help you onboard remote employees in Central Asia!
