At Wavestone, a successful international business and IT consulting firm, over 300 new employees started at 21 locations in 2022 alone. Various onboarding measures help them to settle in better and faster. Among them: Wavestone Buddy Matching. On request, new arrivals are assigned a ‘buddy’ to work alongside them, beyond the hierarchical and thematic contacts. The decisive factor is that both buddies are on the same wavelength. Wavestone decided to use CHEMISTREE’s digital matching process to match the tandems automatically and optimally while making the process more efficient and scalable. Employees who have been with the company for more than 6 months participate as ‘buddies’. For ‘new buddies’, registration is possible before the official start of work with a private e-mail account. Thanks to the matching, human interaction is a given from day one. This greatly reduces internal inhibitions and external barriers to building personal relationships in the new company.