8 messages · 3 tones

Welcome Messages for Friends

8 messages written for friends specifically, across 3 tones. Every one is ready to copy as it stands, or to adapt.

← All welcome to the team messages

Archive started 22 August 2026 · last updated 22 August 2026

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Friend Joining Your CompanyLight Humor
31w · 164c

A friend who now works here

“Welcome to the company, which I have described to you accurately and, I now realize, at some length. Delighted you are here. Lunch is on me for the first week only.”

Best for: Friend who has just joined the same organization.
Welcome to the Team card: A friend who now works here
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Warm

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Friend Joining Your CompanyWarm
40w · 213c

A friend on the inside now

“Welcome, and it is very strange to be writing this to you. Everything I have told you about this place over the years turns out to be broadly accurate, and you can now verify it personally. Delighted you are here.”

Best for: Warm welcome message for a friend who has joined your company.
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Friend You ReferredWarm
37w · 208c

I put your name forward and meant it

“Welcome. I put your name forward because I thought you would be good at this, not because I wanted the lunch company, although that is a genuine secondary benefit. No pressure attached. You will be fine here.”

Best for: Warm welcome message for a friend you referred for the role.
Welcome to the Team card: I put your name forward and meant it
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Friend Now in Another DepartmentWarm
34w · 212c

Same building, different floor

“Welcome to the company. We are on different floors doing entirely unrelated things, which I suspect is the healthiest possible arrangement for a friendship. Coffee whenever you have worked out where the lifts go.”

Best for: Warm welcome message for a friend joining a different part of the company.
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Friend Leaving a Bad JobWarm
41w · 211c

Out of the last place, at last

“Welcome, and congratulations on getting out of the last one. You spent two years telling me it was fine when it plainly was not. This place has its own problems and none of them are that. Very glad you are here.”

Best for: Warm welcome for a friend who left a difficult job to join you.
Welcome to the Team card: Out of the last place, at last
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Friend Joining After Years ApartWarm
37w · 201c

Working together again

“Welcome. We have not worked together since the old place and I had forgotten how much easier a job is when somebody in it already knows how you think. Genuinely pleased about this one. Lunch on Friday.”

Best for: Warm welcome message for a friend you have worked with before.
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Short

2 messages
Friend on Their First DayShort
18w · 84c

Sent on the first morning

“First day. You will be great. Find me at twelve and I will show you the good coffee.”

Best for: Short message to a friend on their first morning at your company.
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Friend Warned HonestlyShort
19w · 100c

The honest two-line briefing

“Welcome. The people are good, the tooling is not, and I already told you both. Glad you came anyway.”

Best for: Short candid welcome message between friends at work.
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