As job offers are made and accepted, HRM should instruct the new employee when to report to work. However, before the employee formally arrives, HRM must be prepared to handle some of the more routine needs of these individuals. For example, new employees typically have a long list of questions about benefits. More proactive organizations prepare a package for new employees. This package generally focuses on important decisions a new employee must make—choice of health insurance, setting up direct deposit of paychecks, and tax-withholding information. When HRM provides this information a few weeks before new hires start work, they have ample time to make a proper choice—quite possibly one affected by a working spouse’s or partner’s options.