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What is BambooHR?
BambooHR is an online HR software that collects and organizes all the information you gather throughout the employee life cycle, and then helps you use it to achieve great things. Whether you are hiring, onboarding, preparing compensation, or building culture, BambooHR gives you the time and insights to focus on your most important asset - your people. BambooHR is a complete HR platform that brings all your employee, payroll, time, and benefit information together in one place, giving you the data accuracy, security, and coordination.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
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87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love BambooHR?
Pros
- Respectful
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Benefits Administration
Self Service Portal
User and Enrollment Management
Payroll Integration
Contributions and Payment Tracking
Archiving and Reporting
Regulatory Compliance
Claims Management
Provider Management
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Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Score 8.8
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Payroll
Score 8.7
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Score 8.4
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Workforce Management - Midmarket
Score 8.4
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Talent Management
Score 8.4
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Employee Benefits Support
Score 8.2
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BambooHR Reviews
Shelley M.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2023
Amazing Human Resources Management Software
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
As a human resources management tool, BambooHR is top-notch and comes with my highest recommendation. Its user-friendliness and robust functionality make maintaining personnel data a breeze.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Having access to all of your staff's information in one convenient location is invaluable. I also appreciate that we can easily create reports, schedule performance assessments, and broadcast messages to the entire team. The onboarding and employment processes are top-notch, and so is the customer service.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Weaknesses exist, though they are minor. It wasn't as powerful as I'd hoped for when it came to hiring for a large-scale expansion, but the program did help us out in the beginning when we were just getting started.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
My time spent with BambooHR thus far—just over four years—has been excellent. It's the easiest program I've ever used, and that's saying a lot. Employees may add their information, verify it by signing, make edits, and then save the file, which is a fantastic feature. Where open positions are displayed to users is another element I like much, and I could go on and on about the ways in which BambooHR has improved my work life.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Sanja N.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2023
Awesome software!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
It's easy to use.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I can easily teach new employees how to use it.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing specific.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Nothing specific.
Pros
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
- Caring
- Security Protects
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Suhani P.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal
Submitted Jan 2023
Excellent product overall
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BambooHR from other similar products?
Bamboo HR offers an additional employee time-tracking app to automatically record activity for hourly employees. Timesheets are easily approved, and reports are available summarizing the results across multiple employees. Another unusual feature of BambooHR is the strong 'self-reporting' functionality of the system BambooHR comes with a comprehensive free trial, without tricks or traps.You have the time to ascertain whether the platform is right for you, without any pressure or expectations. Compared to other platforms, Compared to other platforms, BambooHR is extensively integrated with dozens of other apps and platforms.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Centralized database, all the information found at one place Performance reviews and documents storage capabilities No obligation, free demos are provided during the free trial period. A comprehensive online support database answers most queries regarding the platform. For anything else, there is live in-person support via several different channels. Partner integrations include applicant tracking systems, payroll, background checks, and identity management systems. This makes it easy to slot BambooHR seamlessly into your existing tech stack. It also supports business preference —if you would prefer to work with your existing payroll platform
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lack of pricing transparency- The pricing of the two core packages is not provided on the company website. This makes it difficult for prospective purchasers to compare the price against other products. Cloud-only BambooHR is a cloud solution and does not support self-hosted data. BambooHR customer data is hosted in the United States, Canada, or Ireland, depending on where customers are based. This inevitably means giving up some degree of control of the data and creates potential vulnerabilities for the data. Lack of customization in the ‘Essentials’ package.Users are limited to a standard set of reports in the ‘Essentials’ package.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is worth digging in more deeply to demonstrate how the key features of BambooHR work in detail.A leave management widget, giving you a quick overview of who is on leave, who has leave planned, and the leave available to the logged-in user.Announcements, which covers HR activity that has recently occurred, or needs to be actioned by the user A ‘My Benefits’ section summarizing the user’s benefits. A top menu,navigating the user to more detailed individual information, an employee database, the hiring/recruitment function, reports, and a document depository.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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