The HR metrics that this solution provides has been most useful. We also really like the fact that employees have the ability to be self sufficient and manage their own information. They can look up their benefits, update their information and review documents. 

We also use Bamboo to store job descriptions, employee manuals and other pertinent information.

I really like the way the product is organized. The hierarchy is very easy to use when we want to find who is reporting to whom. The product is user-friendly. The GUI is really good. I like it a lot.

BambooHR is accessible to users who aren't good with technology. If you don't have an IT background, you can easily find information about any employee. 

It can also limit access to sensitive information. For example, I can restrict some information to the employees themselves. Payroll has specific access to see salaries and some personal information that they need for their jobs, but HR has full access.

BambooHR's most valuable feature allows you to log and request leave seamlessly and also allows you to view your staff in the company and see who is online and who is on leave. It gives you that information at a glance.

The employee orientation and onboarding functionalities has been very useful. Email automation to interviewers and the interviewees and the subsequent parallel scheduling of interviews is very easy using this solution.

I like the fact that the annual days are calculated automatically and that if annual leave is taken in the future, those days are put on hold. You always know how many days of annual leave are you left with and how many are on hold. Applying for leave is easy to do using BambooHR. 

The performance goals and personal features of every employee with the dashboard is most valuable. 

Honestly, all of the features are valuable to me. When I came on board with Goodwill, we were using spreadsheets and paper files. At this point, with all new hires, I am able to keep their files electronically and get the information I need at a moment’s notice. The end goal will to eliminate all paper files within the next year or two and be all electronic.

It is very user friendly. It’s easy to teach new hires how to use it. It is very easy to navigate features and show them how to use them, such as finding benefits they are entered in, PTO requests and training information. They can see what they have completed.

Leave management is the most valuable as they all started with leave management and then progressed to performance management. Of course, employee profiles are central to everything.

It is also very easy to use. Customers get on board with it very quickly. One of the selling points for BambooHR is that they have a very wide partner network. There are lots of other partners that have integrations with BambooHR. They have an open API. This is one of the things that is driving its growth because lots of people and companies are literally just building integrations of BambooHR to ride the wave. If you have an integration with BambooHR, you get sales. People are more likely to choose your product because they've already chosen BambooHR. That's how it is happening.

It is a cloud deployment, so there is only one version. They do the updates every month, and because of this, you are encouraged to send them feedback all the time. You never know. Your feature may be included in the next release.

The 13 months feature is valuable.

• We can easily store all the information about an employee in one place
• It is easy to change and update it.
• I briefly used a different system, and it was impossibly difficult to change a simple piece of information such as who someone reports to.
• I find the ATS very useful.
• I like that I can create my own tables and tabs (although would be nice if I could do these myself rather than asking BambooHR to do it for me).

The most valuable feature for us is the time off request. It is very practical and useful.
Also, we signed a contract for the professional version in order to use the new hire packet and e-signatures. We haven’t tried the new features yet, but we think they will be pretty useful for our operation.

• Time off requests: Very easy to keep track of them.
• ATS: Time saving having all applicants in one place, and the email function is very useful.
• Onboarding and Offboarding: Task reminders are very useful, and means we can use as evidence for areas of ISO 27001.

The tool's most valuable features are the recruitment module, performance module, and document storage. 

Email alerts have been incredibly helpful within the HR organization. We've been able to keep track of our employees’ assets (laptops and other items) using Asset Registration. I also appreciate how professional and organized it is to have a welcome email and onboarding list sent to all new staff giving clear instructions for when they start with us. We use BambooHR to store our HR files and it's incredibly helpful having all HR information in one place as a quick reference tool. There is a great variety of customization available; as an international company I really appreciate that I can adjust lists (onboarding and public holidays for example) to be unique for each country/office in question.

Customizability: We can create custom tables, drop down lists, and store any information we want that is in text or number format and export it to Excel. This is extremely useful to an organization that is in high growth mode, as anything we want to track related to employees can be customized.

Not all large products can accommodate this level of flexibility. The permissions are also incredibly customizable. This means we can give very specific access to each employee depending on what they need to view.

• ATS: Much better than our previous manual system where all candidates applied via email.
• Reports: We can pull reports for nearly everything in BambooHR, employee lists, contract dates, etc.
• Customization: BambooHR can create custom tabs and functions for each company’s needs. We have used this for a lot of things, like tracking contract end dates.
• Performance Management: We added this module and it has been very helpful in performance management.
• Email alerts: Workaversiares, birthdays, contract end dates; we have email alerts for everything which means we never forget.
• Time off: Employees can book their time off in BambooHR, and the approval process is very seamless for us.

The time-off tracking tool has made vacation policies simple. It made it easy for employees to request time-off as well as see what they have used and what is remaining. The downside is that approvers have to be on top of things. Otherwise, things can get messy.

• Reporting and different roles (Manager, HR, Self-Service view)
• Change History documentation
• Leave approval
• The API

For sure, onboarding, offboarding, time off and benefits are the most valuable features.

I really value the onboarding and offboarding checklists. This once was a painful paper process that relied on memory or making many calendar reminders for each new starter. Now, it’s all automated and automatically assigned to the right people. It’s so easy to use that we’ve made it work for our international teams too.

The other feature I value is the reports. They makes it so easy to get current information, easily filtered, to anyone who needs it. It’s a brilliant tool that makes our lives so easy.

• Onboarding features
• Documents section
• Calendar + holidays

It is VERY user friendly. We are constantly getting unsolicited positive feedback from employees. I also really like that organizational charts and welcome emails that are sent out during onboarding.

The job openings are the most valuable for me because I use it the most. The BambooHR system makes it a lot faster for me to review and follow-up with candidates and it saves me time from having to print or distribute candidates that need to be reviewed with executives.

The most valuable feature is the ability to comment on candidates in the job openings program. That way, it’s easier to communicate with managers about new candidates or how their interview went, etc. Instead of me having to email or call to get feedback, it’s right on the screen in one central place.

Reports are the most valuable feature.

Signature templates made it much easier for employees to fill out necessary forms, policies and agreements. It was highly customizable and efficient.

I like that it keeps everything easily accessible, from signed documents to outlines of our benefits plans, etc. It is really a one-stop shop. What is needed for my company, it does, and does it well. I enjoy the new UI/UX push they did.