Free printable · for small employers
Free First-Day Agenda & Who-to-Ask Sheets
Most first days go wrong in the same two ways: nobody wrote down what happens when, and the new person spends a week not knowing who to ask about pay, or the alarm, or the thing that is broken. These are the two sheets that fix exactly that — an hour-by-hour agenda you fill in the day before, and a who-to-ask sheet whose questions are already printed so you only add the names. Both come shown filled in first, for an invented bakery, so you can see how much detail is worth writing.
Take it with you — free, no signup
Direct download. No email, no account — just the files.
What it does
- Gives you an hour-by-hour first-day agenda with columns for what is happening and who is leading it — so the day has a shape before anyone arrives.
- Prints the questions a new person actually has — pay, hours, calling in sick, supplies, a customer complaint, the thing that is broken, and the one they feel stupid asking — and leaves you the names to fill in.
- Opens on a worked example, the same invented business used in the paid pack, so you can see the level of detail before you pick up a pen.
- Carries the pack's one safety rule: write down where things are and who to ask, never the alarm code, a door code, a PIN or a password. These sheets get handed over and pinned up.
- Print-and-write-on PDF in US Letter and A4 — no on-screen fields, nothing to sign up for, and nothing saved anywhere but your own copy.
Own it, don't rent it
Want the other seventeen sheets — and the countdown?
These are 2 of the 19 sheets. The full pack adds the half almost nothing else sells — a Countdown Run of 30 prep tasks back-dated from the start date in real business days, a Back-Date Worksheet that prints the subtraction beside each one, and a Readiness Score you fill in the evening before whose verdict includes moving the start date. Plus the welcome and how-we-work pages, the first-week schedule, where things are, the buddy briefing note, a training checklist with sign-off, the day-five "What Was Missing?" slip and the Fix Before Next Hire sheet it feeds, 12 cut-out desk cards and a signed equipment receipt, all 19 sheets shown filled in, and a lead-times and wording reference.
A one-time purchase you print for every hire you ever make. No seat, no subscription, and no account that stops working when you stop paying.
Templates and general guidance — not HR or legal advice. Employment paperwork, eligibility and work-authorization checks, and record-keeping rules vary by jurisdiction; check what applies where you employ people. Every business, person and figure in the worked example is invented.