I have never worked for a company that does the background checks, drug screens, etc on your start date,
Typical process that I have had both as employee and a manager is
1. Offer Letter
2. Offer Accepted
3. Pre-Employment Activities start. Start Date is set 2 weeks out
4. Pre-Employment Activities Completed 1 Week out
5. New Employee Starts.
It would/should not be an issue for an incoming employee to request a start day 2 week after Pre-Employment Activities are cleared if they wanted to give notice
I don't think it's that uncommon. I have personally worked at two companies that didn't do the background check until after employment (which I would never do again), and I've heard this anecdote a few times from others.
hmm I know for some position there has been a high first day no show rate, I wonder if that is what drives that position? Background checks while not super expensive are not cheap either and if you have a high number of people noping out before the first day I could see where they would want to mitigate those costs.
With the changes in drug laws, and this I have seen some companies starting to forgo pre-employment drug screens, which IMO is a good thing.
I am not sure what value most of these Pre-Employment checks provide anyway really.
These were US-based startups, to be clear. I would be surprised if very many larger companies did it this way since they generally have a formal process for this.
Typical process that I have had both as employee and a manager is
1. Offer Letter
2. Offer Accepted
3. Pre-Employment Activities start. Start Date is set 2 weeks out
4. Pre-Employment Activities Completed 1 Week out
5. New Employee Starts.
It would/should not be an issue for an incoming employee to request a start day 2 week after Pre-Employment Activities are cleared if they wanted to give notice