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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 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
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our HRIS for storing employee info/records, time tracking, ATS, onboarding, payroll, and soon performance management.
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BambooHR Experience

8 out of 10
March 30, 2024
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 …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Update personal information (113)
    9.2
    92%
  • View job history (106)
    9.0
    90%
  • Employment history (108)
    8.7
    87%
  • Job profiles and administration (106)
    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 16, 2024

BambooHR Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use BambooHR to request time off and track time off. For the Company, I track, download or print documents for the staff files, especially when onboarding new staff. I sometimes search for 1st day/hire date or staff Birthdays.
  • digitally transmit documents to and from staff
  • maintain privacy
  • track time off
  • seems like too many emails
I like that BambooHR uses digital data so that there's all the records at a click.
April 16, 2024

BambooHR Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TImecards
Hiring
New hire paperwork
  • Time cards
  • Tracking candidates
  • Scheduling/sending interview meetings with candidates has to be done through Outlook. Bamboo doesn't have the capabilities, or the time zone conversion for scheduling interviews with people in other time zones.
  • Bamboo doesn't have a module for entering work schedules for employees.
  • It would be great if Bamboo could categorize time off. For example, when I approve hours, it only lists "Time Off", whereas the employee could be using Holiday pay or Birthday pay and not actual PTO hours.
My rating is based on the Pros and Cons of the last few questions.
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 12, 2024

BambooHR review

Rodrigo Rojas Mujica | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use BambooHR for all our HR processes. Some business problems solved are the onboarding process taking too long and inefficiencies. Digital signatures have been great for tracking all documentation required for compliance. Also, we reduced delays for performance reviews, and now all managers have access to employee information that is important, such as certificates, training, or others.
  • Performance reviews are great, having feedback from other reports is great for employees that rotate
  • All information contained as a digital file of employees
  • Signature tracking
  • Hiring process is more streamlined
  • Some of the performance reviews processes are hard to manage, specifically if you want to create individual processes
BambooHR is great for small or medium companies that are using a paper-based system to increase efficiencies. I am the only dedicated HR employee and is great to keep track of all processes. Less appropriate is for small companies that do not have a champion to lead the software or maybe bigger companies with specific requirements and HR processes.
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 08, 2024

Great HR tool!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we use BambooHR for most of our HR tasks: hiring, onboarding, off boarding, documents. We recently added performance and we are hyped to start using it. We find it very convenient as it keeps everything in one safe space and it is very user friendly.
  • hiring process
  • keeping track of signed documents
  • onboarding / off boarding tasks
  • performance review (we would have preferred a custom date instead of hire date)
  • the sync with Google calendar doesn't always work
for a small to medium business like ours it is very convenient and easy to use. Even for non HR members.
April 06, 2024

Easy-to-Use

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 a solve for recording time tracking among our hourly folks, however, it does not flow into our payroll system. We use BambooHR for ATS, which in turns stores our offer letter and hiring information once we bring a new employee on board. We use the onboarding function to send our new folks their forms prior to their first day, it's great that it auto-saves these into the employee's online folders. In HR, I heavily rely on BambooHR for reporting, especially for pay, history, and EEO information. Myself and the executive team also use this for reminders of birthdays and anniversary, a fun and essential feature.
  • Easy Navigation
  • Custom Access Levels
  • Onboarding
  • Reminder Notifications
  • Custom Time Away
  • Time Tracking
  • Reporting - I wish that you could choose a timeframe for all reports. There are times when I need to run a report for information at a point in time, but there is no functionality to complete this (maybe this is an add-on, but seems like it should be a basic function.)
  • ATS - Customizable notifications and making it easier to figure out how to change notification/email settings. I figured it out, but it was difficult to find. I wish you could choose to notify managers of candidates 1/week instead of every time someone applies.
  • Custom Holidays - being able to set up 2 different Holiday policies for different working groups. Some of our team gets a floating holiday, but we can't set that up without doing it for the entire company.
  • Being able to intercept a form that was signed by an employee but not the 2nd signer. We can't access onboarding forms that new hires signed after the 2nd signer left the company. Now we have to have our team resign all their onboarding forms because we cannot access the one with their signature.
  • Delegation for approvals - being able to delegate this when someone is on leave or time away so that Admins don't have to manage.
  • Org chart - being able to customize this feature
  • More broad or customizable EEO categories
I think if you are a small/mid-size company looking for an easy to navigate HRIS system, BambooHR is a great start. It's mostly intuitive for Admins, managers and employees, as a first time HRIS admin, I have had a good experience learning on this platform. If someone is looking for something that is ultra-customizable, I think they are likely better going with a different system. While BambooHR has a ton of basics, it is lacking a fully robust or customizable experience. I still think it's great, but it has limitations.
April 05, 2024

BambooHR is awesome!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR as our HRIS for storing employee info/records, time tracking, ATS, onboarding, payroll, and soon performance management.
  • Very easy user interface
  • Multiple capabilities
  • Few glitches
  • Not all back end processes are logical
  • There should be a way to capture more EEOC data
  • The employee engagement module is lacking. There should be a mechanism to build staff engagement surveys.
Using the ATS across multiple departments is ideal. The payroll system for a company that has international offices is not as appropriate.
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.
April 02, 2024

BambooHR is the Way

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BambooHR for a one stop place for benefits, time tracking, and performance mgt. We use to have all of these in different systems or just plain excel. We just implemented the last feature, Performance Mgt and we cant wait to start using it.
  • Time Tracking
  • File organizer
  • Performance mgt
  • There should be more customizing with all the Feedback tools
  • Have a better online support system, it has been terrible for the last 2 months.
  • Give new customers one rep to go to for help with set up.
BambooHR is well suited for small to mid size companies. There is alot of manual input and if we had more than 50-100 employees, I would not have gotten BambooHR.
April 02, 2024

BambooHR #1 to HMV

Sofia Villalba | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Managing employee documentation, team announcements, vacation policies and managing vacation time, birthdays, onboarding and offboarding, it is an amazing tool! We used to send documents via email and the reply of important info via email, to then have to download and put in a share file or company folder, was a hassel, this really help me as the HR, to have a tool that did all electronically and has a place for each employee, system does filing accordingly per employee, I just love!
  • Managing employee profiles
  • Keeping track of vacation
  • Manage headcount by month
  • Onboarding processes
  • Recruitment process
  • If only Bamboo had a department that handles payroll like ADP team.
  • More person to person contact, when having doubts, videos do no help, when you are a people person or a visual person
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 30, 2024

BambooHR Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization uses BambooHR for most if not all HR functions. Tracking attendance, benefits, and utilizes the full onboarding experience. I am new to the HR world and BambooHR has been a fantastic tool to learn about the profession and also streamline some processes for the company. I would like to continue to learn more functions to keep making HR functions for the company simpler.
  • Providing assistance to issues in a quick response.
  • Proving information in both video and written form.
  • User friendliness.
  • Consolidating Forms
  • Onboarding communication
  • Running reports
This is the first platform I am using as a HR Generalist and it has been very accommodating and user friendly. As a first time HR representative I was nervous in learning the ins and out and everything on BambooHR has a video or work instructions that I can reference which has been extremely helpful.
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

BambooHr2024

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We got BambooHR to help with PTO tracking instead of using an excel spreadsheet and hoping people would turn in the paperwork for using their time. Now with our accrual PTO, it's easy for our employees to ask for time off and they clearly can see how many hours of PTO they have along with using a calculator to determine how many hours they will have at a certain point in the year.
  • Time Off
  • Cloud based document storage
  • Support Team
  • Performance
  • Ability to have a template from a file company uploads
  • Ability of information from a file to change job, ex: offer letter of compensation change to then update compensation under job.
It is very good for what we intentionally got the program for, but with diving deeper into what the program could do for us and doesn't have the ability to do, yet, I'm unable to state 10. It would be great for templates to be added with a generic offer letter with an eSignature that can update the employee record more than adding the document into the signed document folder. Love the time off and that with time tracking, if someone messes up, and they do, I'm able to go behind and make the necessary adjustments.
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.
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