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BambooHR

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Overview

What is BambooHR?

BambooHR is an on-line human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.

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Recent Reviews

BambooHR

1 out of 10
April 23, 2024
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BambooHR is our core HRIS, we use to capture all payroll information, process starters and leavers, benefits, including opt-ins and …
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BambooHR Review

8 out of 10
April 23, 2024
Incentivized
We use it for employee data management and storing, time off requests, for organization chart and employee satisfaction surveys as well as …
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BambooHR for the win

9 out of 10
April 09, 2024
Incentivized
We use it for onboarding, pay information, and company directory information. It helps in areas where everything was in excel documents …
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Quite well!

6 out of 10
April 08, 2024
Incentivized
We use it as the portal for the employees. They main problem is that we only have one admin and when we need to change something is pretty …
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Great HR tool!

9 out of 10
April 08, 2024
Incentivized
we use BambooHR for most of our HR tasks: hiring, onboarding, off boarding, documents. We recently added performance and we are hyped to …
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Easy-to-Use

7 out of 10
April 06, 2024
We use BambooHR for HRIS and time tracking. We currently have about 47 employees, 10 of which use the time tracking feature. This has been …
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BambooHR is awesome!

8 out of 10
April 05, 2024
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We use BambooHR as our HRIS for storing employee info/records, time tracking, ATS, onboarding, payroll, and soon performance management.
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Popular Features

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  • Update personal information (116)
    9.2
    92%
  • View job history (109)
    9.0
    90%
  • Employment history (111)
    8.7
    87%
  • Job profiles and administration (108)
    8.4
    84%

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Pricing

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Core

$250

Cloud
per month

Pro

$250

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
    Optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $250 per month
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Product Demos

Integrating Boomr and BambooHR

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Product Overview of BambooHR Employee Records

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BambooHR to Active Directory Demo

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TRAXPayroll Demo - BambooHR Integration July 2014

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Product Overview of BambooHR Paid Time Off software

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How to Setup Paid Time Off Policies in BambooHR

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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

8.1
Avg 7.8

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.1
Avg 8.0

Leave and Attendance Management

Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.

8.8
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.7
Avg 8.1

Asset Management

Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.

7.8
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

7.7
Avg 7.6

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

8.6
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

8.2
Avg 8.1

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

7.9
Avg 7.9

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

7.1
Avg 7.9

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

8.1
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is BambooHR?

BambooHR is an online HR system for small and medium-sized businesses. The cloud-based system offers integrated payroll, applicant tracking (ATS), onboarding tools, e-signatures, time-off tracking, and performance management, with reporting and a mobile app for employees. BambooHR simplifies HR data management to help HR teams become more effective, more efficient, and more human.

BambooHR Screenshots

Screenshot of BambooHR's Reporting

BambooHR Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesBambooHR supports any country worldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

BambooHR is an on-line human resources solution that provides onboarding, payroll, and benefits management. It also offers automated time-off management and employee self-service.

BambooHR starts at $250.

Sage People, WebHR, and BiznusSoft HR are common alternatives for BambooHR.

Reviewers rate Update personal information highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of BambooHR are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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April 23, 2024

BambooHR

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BambooHR is our core HRIS, we use to capture all payroll information, process starters and leavers, benefits, including opt-ins and opt-outs, capturing all of our HR analytics for reporting across the business. We also use the time tracking feature for our Spanish employees, as well as basic employee data management and employee management.
  • Ease of use
  • new hire packet
  • Simple for new joiners
  • BambooHR is very manual and relies heavily on admin involvement, an example of this is assigning holiday policies to new joiners which have to be added manually and cannot be done based off access levels.
  • Data quality- there is not enough function in BambooHR to assist with data quality, for example linking division and department to each other so that when a division is selected only department in this division can be chosen.
  • The response from BambooHR when asking for new features or advice is often this is a great idea we will pass on to our development team but we never see anything implemented. When updates are made to BambooHR they are often not useful, such as recent changes to time off that has zero benefit rather than anything value add.
  • Reporting features are limited and often require manipulation. The dashboards on the homepage are not accurate and cannot be filtered
  • Access level set up is over complicated
  • For issues that seem like there should be an easy solution in BambooHR there often is not which means we have to spend lots of time coming up with solutions, an example of this is flexible bank holidays
  • Re-hires can't be sent a new hire packet which creates a manual process
  • Signature set up is very difficult and hard to make documents look professional due to text size
Maybe suited for a smaller company but difficult to manage higher volumes of data- linked to examples given previously. Relies heavily on manual processes and no functionality in place to assist with data quality. Easy for employees to use but limited functionality for admins and not much flexibility in set up.
April 23, 2024

BambooHR Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for employee data management and storing, time off requests, for organization chart and employee satisfaction surveys as well as for feedback management
  • time off requests management
  • employee data storing
  • performance management
  • benefits section
  • setting up multiple holidays calendars for different locations
  • offboarding
is well suited for performance management, time off management, could use more options for custom made surveys and employee forms as well as custom made reminders for years of service, more advanced reports and hiring section with integration of LinkedIn
April 18, 2024

Review of BambooHR

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for our HRIS. To maintain all employee files and documents. We also use it for time off, performance and wellbeing/satisfaction. As well, IT has BambooHR integrated with our systems to be the source of truth for new employees and setting them up in all of our other systems
  • Amazing Org Chart feature
  • most reports are generally easy to generate
  • Very user friendly
  • Payroll, for Canada
  • Allow for more modifications in Performance reviews
  • While i find it very user friendly, I find the interface looks a little dated
The only reason I wouldnt recommend BambooHR is it is not yet an all in one solution, especially in Canada
April 16, 2024

BambooHR Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR to manage all of our employees' data, from employee number, to personal information, work information, among other things. It also helps us manage statistics and custom reports to analyze what is happening at our company. With BambooHR, we know people can access their information from personal stuff, to wage and bonuses, which is a huge plus. BambooHR addressess a problem about people analytics management, a lot of companies don't know how to use that data their employees are giving them to build and discover insights.
  • Reports
  • Good UI
  • Easy to access data
  • Support
  • An option to use hiring information for custom reports
  • More customizable
I think BambooHR is meant for companies that have more than 200 employees, because it is not cheap, but for what they are offering, it is a nice software with some easy UI to understand for everyone at a company. I think for a small company, it is way too big of a software and it is not that worth the price.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Employee information gathering, easy touch point to see location of work, supervisor reports. Birthdates for making appointment and the photo are a great bonus to remind us who is who. <br><br>Business problems is that our employees don't use it. They don't use the app or see the emails or care.
  • Easy search
  • Clear and laid out webpage
  • APP is easy to use
  • The reports - are hard to follow and ensure we are pulling the info we want
  • The Start date, vs years of service
  • The start date I cannot figure out how to break down into day, month, year all separate.
Its easy to use but my last company it had way more options. It could be my current company just isnt using them but it had insurance info, RRSP info and everything built right into it.
April 09, 2024

BambooHR for the win

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for onboarding, pay information, and company directory information. It helps in areas where everything was in excel documents previously.
  • hiring
  • managing employee data
  • delegating responsibilities
  • more integrations with other platforms
This platform is very well suited to organizations that need a simple upgrade from using excel and paper files. It's not ideal for organizations that have highly complicated workflows.
April 08, 2024

Quite well!

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as the portal for the employees. They main problem is that we only have one admin and when we need to change something is pretty tedious and time consuming. Some things can't be done automatically and have to be done manually. we don't have the option either to upload documents to justify some paid leaves.
  • Clear
  • Easy to use
  • informative
  • Paid leaves justification
  • Automated things
for basic info is perfect
for more complex things as for example when a manager needs to be interim it has more to improve as the reports multiplies and it is quite difficult for the management of the daily tasks as holidays and so on.
for holidays for example is someone needs to modify it is also difficult
April 02, 2024

Bamboo Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our HRIS. It stores all employee data as well as being our Applicant Tracking system for recruitment. BambooHR allows us to be sure that the data we are using to run our reports is accurate. it also allows us to provide senior management with up to date, reliable information on which to base decisions. BambooHR is also used to track our employees hours worked which is a requirement of our local employment legislation. We also use the eSignature forms which are very useful.
  • Reports
  • Employee User Experience
  • Applicant Tracking System
  • Applicant Tracking System Reports, these should be more flexible.
  • It would be useful to take the standard reports and save these as custom reports so that additional fields could be added.
  • There are some glitches in the eSignature forms which should be resolved.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BambooHR is our main day to day HR system where we hold our employee data and files. We also use it for recording training , performance management, onboarding and offboarding. All our staff use to request time off and to record goals as part of our performance management process. It is extremely user friendly and the support function is easy to use and quick to respond.
  • Onboarding
  • E-signatures
  • User friendly
  • Performance managemment
  • Offer payroll in UK
We changed from using ADP systems to BambooHR and the difference is night and day.
March 30, 2024

BambooHR Experience

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BambooHR is our HRIS System. The product helps address where we track and safe keep employee information.We also the utilize the system as our Payroll system and up to date employee information is stored in BambooHR. BambooHR is not our only people system but it is our primary system and is a great place for employees to have access to their information too.
  • Payroll
  • Employee Changes
  • Time Off
  • Compliance areas/trainings
  • approval processes
  • local state forms e.g. withholding forms
BambooHR has many strengths however there are still areas for improvement within the system. It would be helpful if there was more of a compliance aspect to the system e.g. local anti-harassment trainings that can be pushed through the system, workflow approval processes in the system, and local state forms that the system has e.g. withholding forms.
March 29, 2024

Awesome HR IS

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our complete HR IS. It manages all aspects of our staffing, from onboarding to offboarding.
  • Scheduled task assignment with automated communications.
  • HR policy document management.
  • Management of staff leave.
  • Integration to create Bamboo employees as users in Google Workspace.
  • Integration with HaloPSA to synchronise leave and scheduling.
  • Role based access control within BambooHR.
BambooHR is great for automating leave processes and scheduling and tracking HR-related tasks.
Maria Stathatou | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our main HRMS, which includes onboarding, offboarding, hiring, reporting, performance, eNPS, time off, time tracking, etc. Overall, we are very happy with it; the system has helped us to digitize lots of processes, save us time, and offer a better employee experience. Also, the support team is super responsive.
  • On-Boarding/Off-Boarding
  • Reports
  • Directory/Org. Chart
  • Performance
  • Time-off: more efficient way to set up policies
  • The way holidays are displayed, for example to have a filter per country
  • eNPS and wellbeing: Nice modules but I would like to have the opportunity to add our own questions.
  • Integration with Slack on who's out every day, so there is not need to manually add it every day.
Ideal for an organization of up to 200 employees distributed in many countries. This may also be true for larger companies if the product offering is expanded.

March 27, 2024

Yay for BambooHR!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR to house all employee personnel files, list jobs, send offer letters, onboard new hires and offboarding of terminated employees. BambooHR is also used to maintain out PTO and leave policies. Employees use BambooHR to request time off, change their addresses, and find company files. We also send out announcements using the announcement functions.
  • Announcements
  • PTO tracking
  • Personnel Files
  • Signature form creation
  • Reporting functions
  • Onboarding
BambooHR is very user friendly. It is easy to learn and integrate with other softwares.
March 26, 2024

BambooHR!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used for employee info, PTO, reporting. I was not part of onboarding so I don’t know all of the issues it addresses but for what it does and for the main use cases I login to the platform for, I find it very useful and easy to find what I need.
  • PTO
  • Employee Info
  • Reporting
  • Location
  • N/A
I love the ease of submitting PTO, especially with the Slack integration. Also, I can view teams' PTO on the calendar, which is easy to view. I have also run department-specific reports to share with teams, and they generate very quickly, are easy to understand, and are saved for later review.
March 26, 2024

Happy Customer

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for hiring, onboarding, timekeeping, benefits administration, and payroll. Its ease of use makes it possible for employees to do more self-management, saving us time and money.
  • Candidate management
  • Onboarding
  • User interface
  • Allow different pay rates and departments depending on a punch code
  • Enable on-call shifts to be noted on the timecard and paid
  • Interface with 401k plan administrator
  • Allow accrued time off report to be run for a past point in time (we always need it at month end to accrue the liability)
BambooHR would work well for organizations that don't have complex pay structures or employees splitting time between departments. Its intuitive interface allows employees to manage more of the pay process.
March 26, 2024

BambooHR Review

Thomas Baker, CFE, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BambooHR is used as the primary HR function for the company and takes in all aspects of the HR process from interviews and hirings to changes in employee profiles and job changes within the company. The scope of the use case is the entire company as a whole using the platform.
  • Very user friendly and intuitive
  • A large and diverse set of HR features
  • Automated notifications for any changes made that need approval
  • Customer Service is almost non-existent and difficult to use
  • Searching for employee information can sometimes be cumbersome unless you have the exact search terms you need
  • I'd like to be able to integrate the system with other applications I use and it has been difficult/near impossible to set these up
BambooHR is very well-suited for a company who has seasoned veterans in their HR department who have seen many different scenarios and know the information they will need to complete the tasks/job assigned to them. This would be less appropriate for a smaller company that has many manuals processes and approvals that is not used to having to create their own reporting and files from the data.
March 26, 2024

BambooHR is AMAZING!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use BambooHR on a daily basis. All of our HR functions, reporting, payroll, time off, performance reviews, etc. are completed in BambooHR. Switching over to BambooHR has saved us so much time and more than that, energy! It is easy to use and they have amazing customer support. I would highly recommend BambooHR to anyone looking for a BETTER HRIS.
  • Customer Support
  • Payroll
  • Benefits via the App
  • Performance Reviews via the App
We really use BambooHR for almost all aspects of our business for HR. The only areas I can really see that they can improve in would be having the ability to do the benefits changes and open enrollment in the BambooHR app. This would be much easier for the employees as they sign up.
March 26, 2024

Great HR product.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our general HR software; we initiate onboarding (through Greenhouse integration) and offboarding as a place to keep documents, route documents for signature, and time tracking. We also use it to document the start of the performance year as well as the end of a performance year. We also use it as a place to track various time off categories.
  • Time off category tracking.
  • Timesheets
  • Onboarding/offboarding steps.
  • Document/Signature workflows.
  • We use a different software to process payroll, a PEO.
  • There is no integration of these two softwares.
  • Allow approval of timesheets prior to closure of time period.
I love the workflows for documents and signatures. We use this quite often, such as for benefits requests, payroll deductions, etc. I also think it has a beautiful workflow for onboarding and offboarding steps and allows these to be customized by a group of employees. Report capabilities are also excellent.
March 26, 2024

Recommend!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our main HRIS to store employee information and applicant tracking system (ATS) to support the talent acquisition process. Additionally, we make use of their onboarding module, time off management, and metrics reporting.
  • User friendly
  • Easy to customize reports
  • Easily able to see who's out of office across the organization
  • Right now, the new hire introduction emails are automatically sent out around 3AM ET on their first day - wish this time can be manually changed to something more work-life balance friendly, such as 7AM
BambooHR has been the most user-friendly and customizable HRIS and ATS that I've used. I can say it is my first time enjoying being the administrator of these systems.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for time off request, org charts, tracking employee data, onboarding/off boarding, tracking training completion and more. It is the source of truth for our organization and heavily utizlied by all. We have also integrated it to our payroll system. Paylocity for easier pay updates and process imovement.
  • Reporting
  • Tracking
  • Alerts
  • Making mass updates
  • Fixing mass updates if there is a mistake
  • Consistent name structure for reporting (Headcount report is First Name Last Name but other reports are Last Name, First Name)
It does the job we were looking for it to do and is continually improving too. It is integrated with the systems we use - Okta, Lattice, Paylocity and more which makes everything more streamline and efficient. The platform looks good too - informing employees on work anniversaries and birthdays.
March 13, 2024

BambooHR!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used BambooHR as our primary HRIS. It has allowed us to do things like keep employee information current, track vacation time, do regular performance reviews, and add custom sections to the various pages. It was great for getting employees to sign documents and became our primary spot for storing employee file documents.
  • Onboarding and Offboarding
  • Employee Information
  • Reporting
  • Reviews
  • Reporting for customisations
  • Goals
  • Recruiting
Good for basic functions, needs improvement for areas like recruitment. Was able to pull great custom reports, but for the sections we had added reporting wasn’t available. Liked how employees could update their own info, and the approval process. Ability to customize time off profiles was useful, and add for different types of employees.
March 09, 2024

Nice experience!

Dr. Suvadip Neogi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it a lot for all types of people, HR, and Operations stuff: checking and managing leaves, holidays, salary/pay, departmental/divisional info, affiliations, keeping track of regular/periodical goals, achievements, activities, career progress, etc. Awesome! Excellent! Great features. It made day-to-day office HR/OPS stuff much easier to handle/manage.
  • Salary
  • Leave
  • People & HR
  • Operational stuffs
  • Departmental / divisional basic info
  • Employee background information
  • career goals
  • Leaves are not utilized in a year; if carried forward to next year, it's proper info synchronization.
  • Synchronization of info available in Bamboo HR with other associated and compatible software for easier data handling/management/archiving.
  • Employee info, departmental/divisional affiliations, career paths/goals/achievements, work/activities management, a reflection of changes, if any, made, and proper management synchronizing with other office data management systems.
Appropriate for everything, please see the following points> People and HR and Operational Stuff; Employee departmental/divisional affiliations; Info management, data inventory, record keeping and management; career goals/objectives/paths/achievements, etc. Places with scopes for further improvement>> managing info on leaves applied/granted/permitted/utilized/not utilized in a year and carried over to next year for use up; info on salary increment, DA, perks, taxation, etc.
March 08, 2024

A Review of BambooHR

Jennifer Litwiller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Onboarding Documents & Process Credentialing of Healthcare Professionals Including Protected Health Information (PHI) Performance Management Including 360 Evaluations Goal Setting/Planning & Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  • Assigning/limiting access to certain areas to keep confidential information private.
  • Performance management, goal setting, collecting peer feedback.
  • Notifications for birthdays, renewals, etc.
  • More middle and back office functionality (CRM, payroll, invoicing, etc.)
  • Integrations with more platforms for middle and back office functions.
  • Better transition from ATS to employee (complete transfer of documents & communication).
It's very well suited as an HR platform for ATS, employee documentation, performance management, etc. It's less appropriate if you're looking for a platform that covers all of your business functions in one place.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for all HR related matters across our including performance evaluations, time off, health benefits tracking, company HR resources and job information. It is used by all employees across the organization and keep everything uniform and in one place. This makes it easy for managers and employees to find what they are looking for.
  • Time off requests.
  • Benefit details.
  • Employee information.
  • Better file tracking.
  • Better organization structure mapping.
If you have a small to mid sized company, BambooHR might be really good for you and your company. It is very simple to navigate and easy to learn for all users. It has a good user interface and is appealing to look at. As well as has most functionality needed for HR (time off, benefits, employee information, etc).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BambooHR handles all our employee's data and tracking! This includes hiring, onboarding, evaluation, and offboarding. We'd be lost without this program as it allows managers to really manage their team member's accounts. As an HR department of one, I'm grateful to have a program to not only quickly help me solve issues, but also other members of the team.
  • Onboarding Task Management.
  • Integrates with other programs well.
  • Hold employees' documents and notes.
  • Easily requests promotions and raises.
  • Build some features out to better handle multi-business companies - like departments in "hiring".
  • Be a resource hub! Allow pictures and templates in announcements. Would help our communication to be centralized.
Well suited for employee documentation! Will hold and manage most HR areas. Must consider payroll integration. We went with Traxpayroll (owned by BambooHR) to help with this integration. This could not be used for all mass communications.
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