Day-one provisioning

A new hire's first week is often spent waiting for hardware, a login, and payroll details while HR and IT chase each other across email threads. The manager finds out about the start date late, and the candidate's first impression of the company is internal plumbing that does not work. This workflow turns a confirmed start date into a dated checklist: accounts, equipment, permissions, payroll enrollment, and benefits election, each with one named owner and one due date. Access is requested with enough lead time to be provisioned rather than requested on the morning. The payroll roster is updated the day the start is confirmed, so a missing bank detail is caught weeks before the cut-off instead of on it, and benefits enrolment is chased before the same deadline. A human still approves what access someone receives, confirms what the role genuinely needs, and tells the new hire directly when something cannot be ready in time.