Onboarding

Welcome your newcomers with a 100% custom virtual onboarding experience

A well-structured onboarding program can improve the retention rate of newcomers by 82%

Increase newcomers retention and engagement through an online onboarding experience

Welcoming newcomers with a tailor-made interactive gaming experience is a top-of-the-range way of supporting them. Whether you want to introduce them to the company, its history and values, or train them on a specific content, we offer several onboarding formats that we co-design with your HR teams.

Virtual onboarding for newcomers

At Emeraude Escape, digital onboarding is brought to the next level with gamification. With our custom digital onboarding games, we help world’s leading companies deliver the frictionless experience to maximize employee engagement from day one. The game elements such as points, rewards, leaderboard, scoring systems and progression tracking are the best assets to create employee engagement, productivity and motivation. This is particularly true for the onboarding process. Right from the beginning, companies and newcomers will learn about each other in an in-depth and unbiased manner.

Here are the key highlights of our customized Digital Onboarding experience:

100% tailored to the client’s DNA
A game that’s entirely yours
Playable as many times as you want
Unlimited number of players
Fully responsive on all devices (mobile, tablet, desktop)
Accessible from any browser with no download required
Connectivity via API, SSO, and LMS
Can be updated and expanded at any time
Custom KPIs integrated / PowerBI integration
Developed in less than 2 months
Global coverage: unlimited translations in any language
100% built in-house by a team of 35+ creatives and 15+ developers

Speak with our expert teams to learn how to onboard your new hires effectively.

Benefits of virtual onboarding

Customization:
Each onboarding journey is tailored to each position. HR and team leaders can use this to customize learning based on specific skills to be trained within the program, that allows each employee to experience smoother integration into their respective team and to gain better knowledge retention for required skillset.

Efficiency:
A virtual orientation can cover a larger audience coming from different departments and automate the sharing of information about the company’s culture, history and values without repeating to each and everyone again and again.

Availability:
The onboarding process can enriched at any time by the company and the employees. The learning material can be available and accessible throughout the onboarding process and after. The new employees can refer at any time even after joining the company in case of doubt enabling them to gain autonomy and develop required skills faster.

Improve employee retention and reduce turnover through gamification

ST Microelectronics Culture and Values Game

A Glassdoor survey found that a well-structured employee onboarding experience boosts employee retention by 82%, while also increasing engagement, job satisfaction, productivity, and company connection. Companies with strong onboarding programs see a 70% increase in productivity for new hires. Investing in an effective onboarding program can drive business success and improve employee retention rates.

Gamification in onboarding applies game-like elements to non-game environments to motivate and engage users, making experiences more enjoyable and interactive. Incorporating gamification into employee onboarding helps retain top talent and build a resilient workforce, especially with millennials and Gen Z, who are drawn to digital onboarding experiences. Millennials make up 50% and Gen Z 24% of the global workforce today.

Gamified virtual onboarding for enhancing employer branding

Implementing gamification in virtual onboarding provides companies with an innovative method to evaluate employee effectiveness, while offering an exciting team integration experience that also enhances employer branding.

Reducing employee stress
A well-designed digital game establishes a welcoming atmosphere, instilling confidence and sparking curiosity in newcomers. The game creates a secure environment where mistakes are accepted, and questions can be freely raised without the fear of failure.

Creating a positive employer brand
A tailored game aligned with your company’s identity cultivates a powerful first impression, effectively conveying your values and history with dynamic communications. It showcases your expertise and commitment in onboarding, nurturing and consistently attracting top talents.

Elevating Employee Engagement and Productivity
The key strength of gamified onboarding is its ability to set clear objectives and track performance progress at each step. Companies can engage employees with captivating games that feature meaningful goals, such as promoting the employer brand, fostering a sense of belonging, and motivating through shared values. Engaged employees naturally improve their productivity as a result.

Enhancing Collaboration and Team Cohesion
Games can be played in two modes: solo and multiplayer. This is where gamification stands out compared to other onboarding methods. It fosters social interaction and empathy, allowing employees across your organization to benefit from cooperative collaboration. As a result, they feel comfortable working in teams from the start.

As a result, your company gains increased awareness, recognition, and brand equity. Ready to try one of our gamified virtual onboarding games? Contact us today!

Immersive onboarding experience by Emeraude

Our creative and technical teams at Emeraude Escape work with your HR and digital innovation departments to deliver memorable and immersive onboarding experiences through gamification.

Our digital onboarding games empower you to showcase your expertise and present your brand, culture, and values in an engaging way. Through gamification, your organization can effectively address major challenges, such as:

How to effectively engage employees
How to retain top talent
How to nurture emerging leaders

We offer custom-branded game formats designed to align with your learning objectives and key messages. Your games will be crafted within a virtual universe that reflects your brand’s DNA and identity. All our virtual games are available in both 2D and 3D, playable on computers, mobile devices, and tablets.

Lastly, we provide comprehensive KPIs to help you enhance your onboarding solution and employee experience. The game can be integrated with Power BI and seamlessly connected to any LMS.

Measurable KPIs for the Onboarding Journey:

Numbers of employees trained
Completion rate
Skills improvement
Productivity rate
Satisfaction rate
Engagement rate

The unique game experience can be crafted using these game elements:

Points and rewards
Badges and achievements
Leaderboards and rankings
Puzzles and challenges
Social interaction and sharing
Customized avatars
Solo and multiplayer modes
Built-in chat, audio and video

To provide the best gamified, immersive onboarding experience and create a lasting impression on your new hires, we offer a variety of game formats to choose from.

Metaverse for 360 experience fully interactive, immersive and evolving game experience
Speed gaming for ultimate collaboration focused on one-on-one battle
Virtual escape room for story-based learning experience
Hybrid workshop for dynamic atmosphere in physical environment powered by digital game

Our game designers will be delighted to answer if you have any specific questions!

The Dior onboarding game, designed to be accessible in 19 languages and playable on iOS, Android, and desktop, has been played in 98 countries by Dior newcomers and retailers. A true sense of luxury is embedded in this immersive onboarding experience, which is seamlessly integrated into Teach on Mars’ LMS, supporting the onboarding process for hundreds of Dior newcomers worldwide each week. Through five chapters and a 3D quiz recap, Emeraude Escape successfully brought Dior’s timeless story to life.

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Axpo, the largest renewable energy company in Switzerland collaborated with Emeraude Escape to create a custom virtual game for their annual management meeting to onboard the strategic ideas to its key employees. This game for strategic management meeting with 450 employees was set in 2050. Axpo’s ingenious engineers have pioneered an unrivaled renewable energy network. However, an AI threat freezes production sites worldwide. As part of the Expo Special Secret team, the 450 employees were invited to play the game and embarked on a mission to unfreeze facilities in an hour to save the interconnected world economy. Learn more

To re-onboard their employees, strengthen connection and rediscovery, they organized a hybrid treasure hunt escape room. Through digital content on their smartphones, employees explored the campus, solving puzzles and clues that align with learning objectives and outcomes of Team Building activity. This engaging and cooperative game created a friendly atmosphere on the ‘back together’ day at Microsoft, helping employees learn more about their workplace and get to know their coworkers anew while having fun.

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Onboarding game designed and developed by Emeraude Escape for Wavestone

Wavestone, one of the most prominent IT service management companies in France organized a virtual onboarding seminar for more than 300 new recruits. With the objective of encouraging collaborations, creating team cohesion and improving communications between consultants and their managers, Emeraude Escape developed a digital game that conveyed the group’s culture, values and their corporate strategy. The newcomers learned all the key components to build a successful team and to increase the overall performance of organization access via this custom branded game.

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Numbers back up the reason why you need to strategize your onboarding

In recent years, numerous studies concerning satisfaction at work have been conducted. The onboarding clearly appears as a key factor in terms of job fulfillment:

4% of employees leave their job after a disastrous first day
22% of employees leave their job after 45 days
The employees who benefited from an onboarding have 58% chances to be still present 3 years after they arrived
86% of new employees decide to stay and leave the company during the 6 first months they are hired

The average cost of a new employee for an organization is more than 4000 euros. Taking into account that an employee in his or her first year cost his or her organization 3 times his salary, onboarding is clearly a strategic moment to convince him or her. A successful onboarding can as a result increase talent retention by 82% and productivity by 70%.

Besides, 88% of employees believe that onboarding of their organization is not good enough, there is thus a large room to improve the welcoming process intended for newcomers.

Ready to create your own virtual onboarding game? Contact us!

Depending on its complexity, it takes from 20 days to 3 months to design a tailor-made digital game for the onboarding of new employees.

There is no limit of players because you own 100% of the game. You can use it as many times as you want. Our servers can welcome up to 200,000 players simultaneously.

Creating a tailor-made digital game for the onboarding of new employees requires a team of more than 8 people (Game Designers, designers, developers …). The cost is available upon request through our contact form.