BambooHR®

Score8.5 out of 10

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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.
Category average: 7.7
Publish to Social Media
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
Category average: 7.5
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.
Category average: 7.7

Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
Category average: 7.9
Support for external payroll vendors
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
Category average: 7.5
Benefit plan administration
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
Category average: 7.5

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using BambooHR®.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

19.2%

3,051 installations of 15,919

“This is also where all our employee request time off and we store all their informations in their personnal file, such as salary, CV, and other important documents.”
— Controller, Kimoby

#2 most frequent

Information

9.5%

1,505 installations of 15,919

#3 most frequent

Other Services (except Public Administration)

7.1%

1,125 installations of 15,919

Pros

Efficient time off management and accrual tracking.
Streamlined and customizable onboarding/offboarding workflows.
User-friendly interface supporting employee self-service.

Cons

Limited customization and advanced features in reporting and analytics.
Insufficient integrations with external payroll and documentation systems.
Latency issues and display inaccuracies within time tracking features.

Amine Derouich

Human Resource Manager in Human Resources at AGTEK Easy Agriculture (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BambooHR as our HRIS and it has been awesome in managing and streamlining our HR functions. It makes functions such as onboarding, managing time-offs, payroll, keeping employee records, and performance management easy. We enjoy using it more so because of the effortless automation of administrative tasks which ensures efficiency. Also, it saves time for the HR staff thanks to AI features that makes handling HR inquiries easy.

Pros

Manages employee data/records.
Perfomance management is easy.
Simplifies hiring and onboarding.
Attendance tracking.
The employee self-service features works well.
Handles business payroll seamlessly.
Comes with great features for workforce planning.

Cons

Reporting and customization options needs improvement.

Return on Investment

It saves time more so because of the employee self service feature.
It helps boost employee productivity thanks to performance management features.
It makes work planning easy.

Usability

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Philips Ngiga

Employee Relations Manager in Human Resources at OXYDOM MAROC (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BambooHR as our primary human resource management tool and it has so far worked well. Being an all-in-one solution, it handles everything from payroll, hiring, time/attendance management, benefits, onboarding, and even performance management. What makes it great are the automation capabilities and the ability to centralize employee data for easy management. In addition, it supports lots of integration and scaling is always easy. It is the best HR solution I have used.

Pros

Hiring and onboarding is easy.
Managing employee and employee benefits is easy.
Comes with great performance management features.
Handles payroll really well.
It is scalable and comes with great automation capabilities.

Cons

There are limited customization options.
Lacks advanced integration options.

Return on Investment

Being an all-in-one HR solution saves us money - we need not deploy multiple HR apps as it has it all.
Centralizing employee data ensures easy access and this saves time.
The automation features also streamlines processes and saves time too.

Usability

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Andrew Huntingdon

CTO in Corporate at BistroBee (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We adopted BambooHR® to manage all of our employee onboarding, performance review and payroll requirements for our medium sized team. We were previously tracking this manually, but as our team grew we needed a software solution to manage it all. We reviewed around 5 different applications and chose BambooHR® as it offered all these features in one and had an easy to use UI.

Pros

Employee Onboarding Flow
Easy to use User Interface
Great reporting and analytics on employee performance
Easy to manage employee reviews

Cons

Customer support via email/tickets can be slower than we would like
Its largely self-service for onboarding so knowing how to set things up in the best way takes time to work out

Return on Investment

Saves about 5 hours week in manual effort
We can create reports that we previously couldnt
Employee report a better onboarding experience

Usability

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Gusto and Zoho People

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Maryse Combres

HR Generalist in Human Resources at LGTEL - Civis Télécom (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm working in the HR department and BambooHR® has been very instrumental when it comes to streamlining our core HR functioning. It simplifies everything from hiring, on boarding, off -day tracking, payroll, and performance management among other key functions. With the self-service features, it ensures we save time and the reduced human errors ensures we make right decisions. I also enjoy using the reporting features and I must admit BambooHR® ensures compliance while promoting efficiency.

Pros

I like the self-service portal.
Hiring and onboarding is easy.
Tracking performance is easy.
The reporting features are amazing.
Payroll.

Cons

While it is very functional, there are limited customization option.

Return on Investment

With BambooHR®, we save lots of time thanks to the self-service feature among other capabilities.
It makes it easy to streamline our core HR functions.
BambooHR® makes it easy to track employee performance.
It ensures efficiency and productivity.

Usability

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Lindsay Bilbrey View profile

People & Culture Manager in Human Resources at Origin Point Brands (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize the hiring, timekeeping, performance management, and payroll modules of BambooHR®. The system supports our business by providing our employees with a user-friendly system to stay connected and keep communications in one location. It has allowed us to bridge communication gaps that we previously experienced with our prior system while providing our employees with a secure portal for all of their employment resources.

Pros

Recruiting- communications are easy for both the internal team and candidates
Onboarding- the onboarding tasks are great. I love being able to attach documents as well as delay sending out tasks
Communication- the employee community is a great tool to keep our communications clean and organized. I love that we now have insight as to who has viewed the comms

Cons

I would love the ability to create sub folders within the company resource folders
I have ran into a few small issues with the total compensation statement and getting information to tie over correctly
An integration with JP Morgan's 401k portal would be amazing
An integration with Employee Navigator would be a game changer

Return on Investment

improved onboarding- adding documents and due dates to tasks
time expenditure- we had printed documents initially. BambooHR® has saved me so much time with the electronic documents that automatically save in the employee record
streamlined processes- key features such as the signature documents, onboarding/offboarding tasks have streamlined my processes also allowing for increased time savings

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BambooHR® Key Features

Top Performing Features

Candidate development

Publish to Social Media

Annual carry-forward and encashment

Areas for Improvement

Off-cycle/On-Demand payment

Support for external payroll vendors

Benefit plan administration

Who Buys & Uses BambooHR®

Most Frequent Users

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Information

Other Services (except Public Administration)

Most Frequent Users

Small Businesses

Mid-sized Companies

Enterprises

Most Frequent Users

United States of America

Canada

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Most Frequent Users

HR

Finance

Marketing

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