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by ein0p 733 days ago
Not just onboarding. Most, if not all, large companies waste at least an hour of their employees time on this per year, while themselves bribing politicians in DC.
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It was, in fact, a story arc in an at the time recent-ish season of SBC[0].

[0] Microsoft's yearly training that is done in the form of a TV drama about MS employees facing ethical dilemmas

An hour? My annual training is typically about 6 hours of drudgery, and often about 2/3rds repeat courses from years previous. Great fun.
That's just the ethics training, depending on your role there's much more than that.