ACL Helps a Global Agri-Business Company Virtually Onboard Employees with Extended Reality (XR)

Overview

Based in Singapore, the client is a primary food and agri-business company supplying food and industrial raw materials worldwide. The client is among the world’s leading suppliers of cocoa beans and products, coffee, cotton, and rice.

ACL helped the client with virtual onboarding of the new employees amid the hiring and work from home scenario.

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Challenges

Time-consuming onboarding process for HR, Training staff, and respective project team

Need to set expectations for new joinees

Need to quickly familiarize the employees with org culture and departments

Difficulty in onboarding due to multiple locations and location level policies and culture

Solution

ACL Digital’s XR solution team identified the pain points of the employee onboarding and came up with the following solutions:

We calculated the time and cost by departments such as HR, Training departments, and supporting teams to provide information to the new employees
We developed a XR-based onboarding system with an engaging and interactive platform to reduce the cost and time for the organization in onboarding new employees
The experience with Virtual Reality (VR): Leveraging VR ACL Digital developed a new interactive VR experience for an in-person tour to the new workplace without being physically present.
The employee onboarding program consisted of the below modules with VR-based interactive content and videos
- A Welcome Area: An area where CEO, HR Head, and people from top management welcomes the new employees and talk about the organization’s vision. Green screen videos were shot and preprocessed as part of the engagement.
- Office Walkthrough as an Introduction: The beautiful office space was captured as a 360-degree Virtual Tour for a walkthrough without the physical presence of trainer/HR using the XR experience.
- About the Company History: Crafted a story in the form of videos, voice notes, management speech, images, documents, and interactive 3D animations around the organization’s history along with important milestones, valued clients, business verticals, vision and mission, and other relevant information for employees to feel engaged and informed.
- Org regulations and Policies: ACL helped create an XR experience that would give the new employees or joiners the information and knowledge on the regulation and policies of the company for strict adherence.