The Case for New-Hire Immersion

Despite the recent travails of the dot-coms, unemployment remains at historically low levels. The result is a "free-agent nation" where employees are aligned to a career, not a company. Employers no longer have the luxury of allowing new hires months or years to become acclimatized, when all too often tenure is counted in weeks. Fannie Mae's new-employee immersion program emphasizes not only the community of Fannie Mae employees, but also Fannie Mae's mission and charter of working to make sure that more lower- and middle-income Americans can afford to buy homes.