On the first of October, CIO Lisa Davis welcomed 13 new IT hires, some of them fresh out of college, to their first day of work at Blue Shield of California. The new arrivals peppered her with questions ranging from whether the company issued acronym dictionaries to decipher all of its abbreviations, to tips on how to begin building their internal network. Common questions, but in the age of COVID they’ve taken on particular urgency since this meeting is being held via Webex and the new hires will be working from home.
For some of these new hires, “This is their first workplace, and they’ve never really integrated before.” For the entire group, “They’re trying to understand the culture because they won’t be observing or watching people around the watercooler,” says Davis, who has hired 60 people so far this year, with a goal of 150 new hires.
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