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BambooHR brings all your employee, payroll, time, and benefit information together in one place, giving you the data accuracy, security, and coordination you need to sleep soundly.
Accomplish more with integrated solutions that provide access to a team of HR experts, plus actionable templates and workflow resources for writing job descriptions, creating and maintaining a digital employee handbook, accurately classifying employees, and automating risk assessments.
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Ziad A.
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I like the customer service or the Hero:) very helpful and friendly.
easy to use after you get familiar with it.
sometimes many steps to do to get a small issue fixed
Susan L.
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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Nice and easy interface, great asset for onboarding. Bamboo is a great product for the end user and new employees
It seems like you have to email HR additional information that could possible be uploaded into Bamboo HR when you first on-board. Why should I send forms via the internet if I have an online HR system?
Kevin C.
Hospitality, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Great
Integrated Lots of information designed neatly Employee calendar is useful
Couldn’t ask for a better hr software !
Manish D.
Education Management, 201-500 employees
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Ok
Simple easy to use features and capacity
Many areas including UI UX, latest hR practices
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Defense & Space, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We love Bamboo HR - has simplified and centralized our HR processes
This software can integrate with other applications to become exactly what your companay needs
I can't think of any cons to this software - is easy to use and easy to get help using it
Ree H.
Human Resources, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We love Bamboo HR and would like to be able to sell it to our clients.
So many manual HR administrative tasks can be automated that HR professionals gain work hours.
Some customizations are still not available for PTO tracking. So, we cannot fully automate that task. Also, the ability to intervene in the process for requesting signatures/approvals can create confusion.
Baylee S.
Motion Pictures and Film, self-employed
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Bamboo HR has a great minimal design and is easy to use and to navigate. I appreciate the added personality in notifications emails, like when a paycheck comes through for example. I also like the design of the payment page to promote privacy.
I never had any problems working with Bamboo HR.
Abbie R.
Mental Health Care, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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I love how easy Bamboo HR is to navigate! Able to keep everything stored in one place. Easy to track hours, timesheets & pto for every single employee.
Zero issues with Bamboo HR. It has been great!
Michael C.
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for 2+ years
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Overall is a good piece of software. I wish they would invest in the user experience.
Bamboo HR has all the right features that an HR software should have. The interface is clean and can be customizable depending on the HR needs of the company.
The software itself is not that intuitive to use. There are things that could be fixed and changed to make it easy for users. Even though it has all the features it should have, some of them are not easy to find.
Nathalie S.
Fund-Raising, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Overall, Bamboo HR is super helpful and will be your best friend.
Bamboo HR really simplifies the onboarding process, which I really appreciate.
I do not have any complaints about Bamboo HR.
Sowe W.
Renewables & Environment, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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This software is great for HR as its user friendly and very efficient. Does all the HR needs . (All in one software)
Would like more templates and examples for HR needs.
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Education Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used other for less than 6 months
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Offers several features and brings order to the firm
Could be improved by adding more advanced HR practices
Vershley J.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Fast and easy to use platform. Speed up the HR internal process a lot specially in terms of time tracking and tracking leaves.
This is a very modern platform compared to other systems I've used. Every feature is one click away with the amazing interface, to track time or to submit an expense or submit a leave is super fast. No training needed.
Not flexible enough for some business HR process, and we had to change some of our internal HR process to be able to fully use this platform.
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Internet, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Saves time, saves paper, more accurate employee data with so much functionality.
1) It is so easy to use, I joined a new company that uses it and I literally needed no training! 2) It has a very nice user interface, feels like one of my social media pages 3) It's super convenient for HR staff who don't have to manually key in all new employee data, the employees get to do it themselves 4) It cut down the cost of paper by 98% in our HR Department.
I really honestly cannot think of one bad thing about BambooHR. Coming from a manual HR system, this is the best thing that ever happened to our HR department.
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Human Resources, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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I would recommend BambooHR as a solid mid-market HR software solution, particularly for organizations looking for an affordable system that covers the basics well while offering the option to grow into more advanced HR functionality over time. BambooHR strikes a good balance of usability, features and value for the price.
Comprehensive suite of HR features BambooHR offers a wide range of HR functions from onboarding to benefits administration to performance management to custom reporting. It covers most essential HR needs.
Learning curve for advanced features While the basics of BambooHR are easy to learn, mastering some of the more advanced features like customizing workflows and reports can take time.
Ethan K.
Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall, I would recommend anyone looking for a HR program to try out Bamboo HR.
BambooHR is a very useful tool for not only your HR needs but for hiring process as well. They provide resources to allow you to post one job posting that post to many different sites.
Had a little bit of an issue with vacation hours of employees not tallying correctly. They have since corrected it.
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Internet, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Great to manage HR activities and really easy to use for both user and HR.
We're using BambooHr at our firm as well, it's easy to request days off, work from home and to manage all of your details.
One thing that I personally don't like it's that our salary is exposed so if someone it's near me, they can see how much I make, but that's not a deal-breaker.
Ron Elius S.
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Awesome!
If you’re an HR Professional or the Head of the HR Department, this tool will be very helpful because of its HR-focused features such as Applicant Tracking and Training Onboarding. No more blindly guessing who’s the best candidate or the status of Applicants’ application, also no more missing documents that cause so much trouble for hiring. Bamboo HR solves so many problems for the HR Department.
Because of its robust features, it will take time for each employee on the HR Department to fully utilize the features. It has a learning curve but it’s always great to learn this powerful software.
Nathalie G.
Government Relations, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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The benefits that I've realized are streamlined job applications in an effective and efficient way.
I like the way that Bamboo HR allows applicants to edit their applications and we can be certain that our applications were received.
I wish that there were more options when using Bamboo HR.
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Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Streamlined the HR processes
It integrated seamlessly with all our existing applications.
Has many features, some of which may not be used.
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Internet, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Awesome. I love the ability to see the hierarchy of my organization and I love that it requires everyone to add a photo. Super helpful for putting a picture to the name.
I'm not on the HR team, but I have no cons!
Jodi P.
Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Overall, I have been very happy with Bamboo HR and would rate it above other HR platforms.
Bamboo HR has great HR features for a team. The ease of use for employees is exceptional. The overall program is easy to navigate and provides one central location for all important documents and policies for staff as well as time tracking.
I wish the payroll aspect of Bamboo was a little more user friendly and easier to implement within the software program.
Craig A.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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A great HR solution that meets our needs.
A very intuitive platform that was easy to adopt and employees had very little friction during the rollout. Excellent feature set including candidate tracking, leave request tracking, entitlements and organisation hierarchy\search capabilities. As a global organisation, the flexibility of the platform to meet our geographically specific requirements made the planning and implementation a simple process
No issues I can report from our deployment of Bamboo HR
Zach D.
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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People/HR Management Platform
Really clean and intuitive UI. From the employee side, it's straightforward and easy to use. From the administrator side, it's easy to manage.
Honestly, we are less than a year into our implementation, but I'm yet to run into a major negative within Bamboo.
Natalie M.
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall Bamboo HR was exactly what we were looking for in terms of a great HR software program!
Bamboo HR is a simple software program, yet gets everything done that we need for HR and time off tracking.
The only thing I could think of that would be more helpful is to maybe send the email on the day of when it's an employee's birthday, rather than a few days before.