A new beginning is kinder when someone remembers which details were once confusing to them.

Once you know a place, its confusions disappear from view. Where to put your coat, who to ask about the printer, which door is actually the entrance: none of it registers any more, so none of it gets explained. The newcomer then spends a first week quietly solving problems that were solved years ago.

Try to recall your own first days somewhere and what you felt too awkward to ask about. Tell the next new person those things before they need them. A two-minute walk through the ordinary details can save someone a month of small uncertainty.