Case Study: DigitalOcean achieves strategic onboarding — saving 1,000+ hours and accelerating new-hire productivity with Sapling

Creating a Strategic Onboarding Experience

DigitalOcean, a cloud and infrastructure provider with about 400 employees, faced an onboarding process that was administrative and burdensome, limiting their ability to create a strategic program to drive new hire productivity. They partnered with Sapling to move beyond surface-level checklists and build an intentional onboarding initiative focused on helping new hires become successful more quickly.

Sapling implemented automated workstreams to handle 84 onboarding tasks per employee, saving over 1,000 hours across departments, enabling DigitalOcean to onboard 70+ employees in six months and manage 7,000+ onboarding activities per month. Using Sapling’s automation and pre-boarding portal freed the People Operations team to boost new hire satisfaction and accelerate time to value.

DigitalOcean

Matt Hoffman

Vice President People