New starters on shared PCs: what to cover in sixty minutes

3 March 2026

A practical agenda for desk inductions when temporary staff rotate through reception and admin pools.

Reception desk with shared computer and visitor sign-in book in a Cape Town office

Shared PCs make password sharing tempting. New starters often inherit sticky notes from the previous temp unless someone removes them on day one.

A sixty-minute induction works best at the actual desk, not in a boardroom far from the printer and visitor book.

Cover: who owns the login, how to lock the screen, where USB sticks from clients go (usually nowhere), and what to do with unexpected attachments.

Leave a starter card in the day-one folder. Paper still travels better than a link buried in an intranet people have not learned yet.

Siterowanfield schedules desk inductions around hiring waves so you do not wait for a full workshop cohort.