BambooHR®

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What is BambooHR®?

BambooHR is an cloud-based 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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Candidate development
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
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Annual carry-forward and encashment
Annual carry-forward and encashment enables unused paid time-off days to be carried forward to new year, or paid in cash.
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Publish to Social Media
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
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Support for external payroll vendors
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
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Corporate goal setting
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
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Ability to combine HR data with external data
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

21.4%

2,663 installations of 12,464

“We adopted BambooHR® to manage all of our employee onboarding, performance review and payroll requirements for our medium sized team.”
— CTO, BistroBee (11-50 employees)

#2 most frequent

Information

10.7%

1,334 installations of 12,464

“We utilize BambooHR as our leading HR software.”
— Curriculum Specialist, BambooHR (1001-5000 employees)

#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

7.9%

983 installations of 12,464

“We now use it for all hiring/termination documents, background check, contact data, emergency contact data, pay tracking, employee timekeeping, employee feed back and company policy access.”
— VP, Operations & Senior Consultant, Jolt Technology (11-50 employees)

Cam MacMillan View profile

Supervising Project Coordinator in Professional Services at Transpharmation (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bamboo is used in my company for HR purposes, such as employee tracking and goal setting for mid-year and end-of-year reviews. We use this as a primary tool for running performance reviews, and it works quite well because everything is consolidated in one location, and the appropriate staff have access to it.

Pros

Employee Tracking.
Performance management.
Vacation tracking.

Cons

Showcase notes in list format rather than bubble/square.
Easier tools to navigate to other pages rather than returning to the home page each time.

Return on Investment

Increased staff retention.
Increased staff engagement.
Easier employee tracking.

Usability

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Payworks, monday CRM and KnowBe4 Cloud Email Security

Other Software Used

monday CRM, Payworks, KnowBe4 Cloud Email Security

Brian Horace View profile

Senior Web Developer in Marketing at FiscalNote (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

BambooHR® really simplifies and centralizes our hiring process all the way to our benefits process and everything in between. It helped us bring together several facets of the HR process into one platform and made onboarding, offboarding and payroll as simple as possible for us. It allowed our employees to become willing participants in these processees.

Pros

It allowed us to easily post job notifications much more efficiently.
Also made it much simpler for employees to manage their time off
It also helped us centralize several functions of HR into one place

Cons

There are some limitations in terms of large companies; it's not as scalable a system as one might want.
the payroll systems and features are a bit rudimentary

Return on Investment

BambooHR® has allowed us to centralize the entire HR journey and cut down demand for manpower.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Rippling

Other Software Used

Google Authenticator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe PhotoShop

Emma Hays View profile

IT Operations Engineer in Information Technology at Zapier (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BambooHR® as our main system for storing employee and contractor data. It's the foundation of how we manage who has access to what across the company. BambooHR® connects directly to our identity provider, which controls group membership in our communication and infrastructure tools. Managers can update team and role assignments in BambooHR® themselves, which automatically handles access downstream without IT needing to step in for every request.
We also use it to manage our contractor lifecycle. Having a proper BambooHR® profile is a requirement before contractors can get access to high-risk systems, so it works as a compliance checkpoint too. Employee attributes like department, division, zone, and product team all live in BambooHR® and determine what people can access and which groups they're in.

Pros

Allows us to have a single source of truth for employee data
syncs with our IDP to provide group membership information
manage employee lifecycles

Cons

Continuous syncing with IDP
Stability - when BambooHR® Goes down, it can send garbage data to our idp. This has caused incidents

Return on Investment

Standardization of onboarding processes allows for less one-off contractor access requests
Standardizing offboarding allows users to be offboarded in a timely manner

Usability

Allison Brekosky View profile

Marketing & Events Coordinator in Marketing at Lighthouse Electric Company (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BambooHR® as the primary internal directory for our 1,500+ employees. We can also use it to update personal information for HR's use (Address, Marital Status, etc.), we use it to track and submit time off requests, and it acts, in many ways, as the dashboard for [...]'s internal relations.

Pros

Employee Directory/ORG Charts
PTO Tracking
Internal Important Document Database

Cons

Not everyone keeps their direct reports' location information up to date - maybe prompt supervisors to check/revise this often?
I feel like SOME kind of contact information should be required for each employee. An email OR a phone # - not both - but some people in our org are unreachable.

Usability

Other Software Used

Workday Workforce Management

Houd Azerdane

HR Assoctiate in Human Resources at HelpyFood (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an HR Manager at Helpfood, we use BambooHR to address most of our HR issues, from onboarding new employees and managing their records to leave management and our day-to-day HR operations. BambooHR has helped streamline and make processes more efficient by addressing manual HR processes, reducing them, and enhancing employee data visibility. Our use case covers onboarding processes, employee database management, performance management, and leave tracking, and is usually used by our HR dept and, at times, supports the executive in decision-making.

Pros

Employee onboarding and workflow automation have been streamlined significantly since we started using BambooHR. It helps in paperwork automation, checklist approvals, and task assignment.
I can never say enough about centralized employee data management. This one, BambooHR, does it so seamlessly that there is no need to juggle several HR management solutions to visualize data.
We had an issue with performance management: we could not track how employees were performing, recognize the best performers, or identify ways to improve low performers. But BambooHR has helped with. We can now conduct reviews, track performance, and monitor KPIs.

Cons

The Applicant tracking system gets overwhelmed by large volumes of applications, therefore failing to conduct more in-depth screening and to match us with the perfect candidates.
At Helpyfood, we sometimes need very specific reports, such as a detailed workforce breakdown, and BambooHR cannot create them. Work on more in-depth reports and advanced analytics.
I feel BambooHR is a friendly platform, but when it comes to customizations and configurations, it gets a bit rigid. For example, tailoring approval flows for different departments.

Return on Investment

A major ROI has always been saving time, and we started using BambooHR because most of our HR operations were manual, and time wastage was a big issue. But now, with BambooHR, we have reduced the administrative workload by 30% to 40%, freeing more time for our personnel to be more productive.
Another ROI has been the slow onboarding process we experienced due to many manual steps. But with BambooHR, the process has been cut by half from 4 days to 2 days.
Decision-making in the HR department was a bit flawed because we lacked reliable data to act on. From performance management data, KPIs, and leave management. But with BambooHR, our decision-making has become much better and more accurate. This has reduced scheduling conflicts and improved workforce planning.

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Top Performing Features

Candidate development

Annual carry-forward and encashment

Publish to Social Media

Areas for Improvement

Support for external payroll vendors

Corporate goal setting

Ability to combine HR data with external data

Most Frequent Users

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

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Manufacturing

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