Category Archives: Product Features & Updates

New features and updates galore (since we last posted)

Whoa! Summer flew by and we’ve been terribly neglectful of announcing some of the awesome updates and new features of BambooHR.  Even though we’ve been quiet, we’ve been busy making things better for our customers.  But we’re also committed to doing a better job of announcing our exciting news to the world more frequently. Here’s [...]

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I see your true colors

We recently launched a fun little feature and a very useful report.  Take a look! Color Scheme Now you can make BambooHR match your company colors.  Go to Mange > Color Scheme and play with the color palette to find something that works for your organization.  It’s easy and fun!  Note: The color scheme selected [...]

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Exciting feature updates

We have a bundle of new features and updates for you! Lots of exciting things are on the way, but it’s always fun to get things into your hands as soon as they’re done (oh, the beauty of software-as-a-service!) Files Tab Once you are logged in, click on the Files tab to explore some neat [...]

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Put on a happy face (in reports)

Last night, we launched a change in our report tool to allow employee photos as a field in reports.  This will make it easier to see who’s missing photos. Or you can create a report for your executives to put names with faces.  Or adding photos to reports might simply serve as a reminder that [...]

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Update: Making custom reports is easier

The add/edit report page was due for an update.  We like making reports and we think there are others who like making reports too.  So what could be better than making it easier to make reports? There are four key areas that we changed to make report building simpler: Single click to add a field. [...]

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Share employee-specific documents

Several months ago, we added the ability to share company files with employees via our employee self-service module.  Now we’ve extended sharing to employee-specific files.  For example, if want one of your employees (Charlotte Abbott) to have access to the Confidentiality Agreement she signed when she was first hired, it’s as simple as checking a [...]

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Permissions give you the power

Until recently, there were only three types of users that could access your Bamboo HR account: Administrators could view and edit everything. Managers could view everything except for social security numbers and pay rate, but not edit anything. Employees could only see a few things like their own benefits and training information. These three user [...]

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New reports added

We’ve added three new default reports in the Report Library…and two of them have some nice (useful) eye candy! Benefit Eligibility This report lists all employees and their eligibility status, plan selected, and coverage selected for all benefits.  It’s a simple way to see who’s eligible for what and what the participation level is  for [...]

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Human Services HQ is now Bamboo HR

We’ve made a pretty big change to our business.  We love working on our product.  We love providing service to our customers.  But we’ve never really loved our name. Human Services HQ was picked early on for different reasons, but it never really fit.  It’s too long, can be hard to spell, and doesn’t really [...]

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Now share files in employee self-service

We’ve made a nice little addition to our employee self-service area.  You can now share files from the Files tab with your employees.  This eliminates the need to email commonly used forms and documents to employees.  It can also save on printing costs for things like the employee handbook since it’s available online. To share [...]

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