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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 38m

🧭 The takeaway: onboarding isn’t a checklist, it’s a system of belonging.

When done right, it builds confidence, trust, and clarity.

When ignored, it drains engagement before Day One ends.

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 38m

⚙️ AI is already reshaping onboarding:

- 92% of HR leaders say they’re exploring AI/automation
- 50% believe AI improves the onboarding experience
- Main benefits: less paperwork, fewer errors, faster setup

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 38m

💡 The good news:

- Companies with strong onboarding see 82% higher retention
- 79% of employees say onboarding helps them integrate into company culture
- 77% of HR pros believe onboarding will only become more important

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 38m

💸 Average onboarding cost: $1,830 per hire
🗓️ 25% of firms onboard for just one or two days
📉 36% have no structured process at all

The result?
Lower productivity, higher turnover, weaker morale.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 38m

Only 12% of US employees say their company has a good onboarding process.

Yet structured onboarding can boost retention by 82% and productivity by 70%.

Here’s what 70+ onboarding stats reveal about how companies are failing new hires 👇

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

Jill Popelka of Darktrace put it best: Altman is “the hero and the villain of the technology everyone’s talking about.”

He’s building the most powerful company in the world, and testing how fast it can go before the world says “stop.”

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

Meanwhile, Altman’s PR game is peak in 2025. He invited users to make AI-generated videos of him doing anything they wanted, and the internet obliged.

Hero branding, or hubris?

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

But others say he’s moving too fast.

OpenAI faces lawsuits, including one alleging ChatGPT helped a teenager research suicide methods. Critics say the firm is chasing revenue at the cost of safety.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

Box CEO Aaron Levie says Altman “understands that platform shifts come once in a generation.”

Rubrik’s Bipul Sinha calls AI “a phenomenon on a super-exponential trajectory.”

The consensus: you have to run fast to capture it.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

Sam Altman signed $1 trillion worth of deals, with AMD, Nvidia, and others, while launching new AI tools, a shopping platform, and a video app.

Tech CEOs are split: some call him visionary, others reckless.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

AI isn’t “coming for HR.” It’s arriving at cost.

The next phase of people operations will hinge on a simple choice: use AI to amplify your humans, or wait until someone else uses it to replace them.

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

Industrial policy must track reality, not vibes.

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

Look at hard counts and domestic content instead: units, tonnage, share of the value chain, machine-tool capacity.

On those measures, the US has slid in electronics, autos (per capita), steel, ships, solar, with rockets a rare bright spot.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

Why it breaks: quality adjustments and input substitutions (e.g., more scrap, different components) can explode value-added even when actual output is flat or falling.

Former BEA leaders have warned that “real value-added” isn’t a true measure of production.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

Result: bizarre gaps with reality.

• Vehicles: production down ~11%, yet real value-added up ~125%.
• Steel: tonnage down ~18%, value-added up ~125%.
• Semiconductors: CPU shipments +94%, value-added +1,698%.

Method beats metal.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

The BEA’s real value-added says US manufacturing is up 71% since 1997 (≈ 37% per capita).

But that isn’t counting cars, chips, or steel. It’s a model that layers price indices, quality tweaks, and imputations over sales data, then calls it “output”.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 21h

GDP keeps rising, yet America makes less of the stuff that matters.

Patrick Fitzsimmons shows why the headline metric hides industrial decline, and how “real value-added” manufactures an illusion of strength.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 22h

If the shutdown drags on, the tax system, the machinery that funds the government itself, will seize up.

The symbolism is stark: America’s tax collectors, furloughed by the state they sustain.

The longer this lasts, the closer Washington drifts toward fiscal paralysis.

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 22h

The political gridlock is deep: six funding votes have failed in the Senate.

Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked over spending, while hundreds of thousands of federal workers go unpaid.

Markets are jittery, and economic data releases are delayed.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 22h

This shutdown isn’t happening in isolation.

The IRS was already weakened, its workforce cut 25% earlier this year after Trump’s post-election restructuring drive.

Now, it’s being asked to function on half-power during a funding crisis.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 22h

The furloughs mean most IRS operations are suspended- audits, processing, and customer support, among them.

The agency told workers they’d get back pay eventually, but President Trump has hinted that “it depends.”

That’s an extraordinary threat from the executive in charge.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 22h

The US government shutdown has entered its eighth day, and now the IRS is furloughing nearly half its staff.

About 34,000 workers were sent home without pay. Another 39,870 remain on duty.

Tax season just became a political hostage.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 22h

And policymakers are running out of levers to pull.

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 22h

When facts become political, markets lose their compass.

Add in a $210 billion tariff lawsuit and a softening economy, and the outlook darkens further.

Wages will stagnate, competition will rise, and families will feel the squeeze.

The job market isn’t cooling, it’s cracking.

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Elvis Eckardt Recruitment @elviseckardtrec.bsky.social · 22h

The July jobs report already warned us, adding just 73,000 jobs nationwide.

Then came political chaos: President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the bad numbers, a move that threatens the credibility of future data.

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