Huel drastically cuts down onboarding time with Thrive

Sustaining quick growth

In 2021, Huel was named the 7th fastest growing UK company on The Sunday Times Fast Track 100, with annual sales rising by over 130%. With all the excitement of growth, it was clear to Huel's People Manager Vicki Bacon what they needed: a new way to scale employee onboarding to new starters wherever they're working, the ability to record and manage compliance, and the capability to help their people develop the critical skills they need to "hustle hard, work fast", one of Huel's core values.

Employee engagement with development had to scale as fast as the business itself.

Transforming onboarding

Huel Learn was the answer to scale their onboarding experience and get new "Hueligans" up to speed quickly whilst maintaining the quality and consistency of training. Vicki and the People Team at Huel built a world-class onboarding pathway on Thrive, full of content that instantly makes new starters feel part of the team, wherever they might be working. Structured pathways got new Hueligans up to speed quickly, Spaces connected teams across the business, and campaigns kept everyone aligned on product launches and company updates.

Vicki commented: "We're really pleased that it's saved time for our Hueligans, cutting down on time spent answering the same questions over and over has all been achieved through creating our own content to counter these and form part of the onboarding process."

Hueligan culture

Since launch, Huel Learn has achieved a 94% adoption rate and shared over 5,226 pieces of content. It has transformed Huel's learning culture, becoming the all-in-one place for learning, content and communication, making collaboration, personal development and real-time learning more accessible for all Hueligans. Social learning features transformed how colleagues share knowledge, while analytics gave the team clear visibility of engagement and development trends across a fast-growing team.