Organizations are increasingly turning to computer-based distance learning (CDL) solutions to enhance opportunities for employee training. Before embarking on courseware development, it is important to understand that successful integration of CDL into a training process depends on effective content and design, as well as accompanying strategies for employing the courseware to meet the organization's learning and human performance goals. Studying real-world use of CDL, we have seen promising courseware that, when employed in actual training contexts, often proves ineffective because of problems encountered during attempted integration into the workplace. These failures occur when organizations focus exclusively on course content and design decisions throughout the instructional systems design process - overlooking human-systems integration issues that can derail even the most impressive CDL programs. It is commonly understood that human systems integration considerations are critical in the introduction of new engineering systems; similarly these factors should be considered in the process of integrating CDL into workplace-centered training. Our goal is to expand the way people think about CDL development to ensure that CDL does not fail as a result of overlooking human systems integration issues by: (1) introducing factors related to CDL employment outcomes, (2) presenting the many stakeholders in CDL success along with a description of their respective roles in the CDL employment process, and (3) providing a process for uncovering both barriers and facilitators to CDL employment. We conclude by presenting guidelines to follow throughout the instructional systems design process to ensure successful CDL employment.