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Talk to anyone at BambooHR, and they’ll likely be able to name the seven values that guide our day-to-day work: Be Open Assume the Best Do the Right Thing Make it Count Grow from Good to Great Enjoy Quality of Life Enjoy Quality of Life—which focuses on work-life balance—is perhaps the one we are best […]

If your HR team always looks incredibly busy, it’s probably because they are. While many employees may only associate HR departments with handling employee handbook violations, their roles extend a lot further. When over 30,000 members of the HR industry gathered at our HR Virtual Summit, we decided to survey attendees to find out what’s […]

In this series, BambooHR compares and contrasts HR practices and challenges across a wide variety of industries. This week’s post focuses on hiring and retention issues within the education industry. HR is challenging work no matter what organization or industry you find yourself in. But in the education industry, two challenges stand out for HR […]

It’s one thing to recognize that your organization needs to do more—get more clients, spend more advertising dollars, fix more software bugs, create more ad campaigns. It’s another thing to organize the teams that make it possible to achieve these goals. If this seems like a lot for one person to figure out with a […]

Turnover is a natural part of every organization, and there are a variety of reasons behind it. Some turnover is outside your control, like when someone chooses to move closer to family or decides to leave the corporate world to become their own boss. Yet, there are other instances of employee turnover you can actively […]

Good time management can mean getting your work done more efficiently and quickly, while bad time management can mean an entire day goes wasted on jumping between projects and distractions. In a recent partner webinar with BizLibrary, we discussed how you can implement better time-management techniques not only for yourself, but also for your entire […]

In case you haven’t noticed, we believe Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) surveys are a great way to gauge employee satisfaction. We also think they’re a great launching pad to help you work to improve your employee experience, and in turn, employee engagement. If you haven’t made employee satisfaction a focus for your organization yet, […]

Every quarter, we add a handful of awesome, new partners to the BambooHR Marketplace to make your job that much easier. But we don’t just add any old organizations. We carefully select partners who care about setting you free to do great work and provide you with best-in-class tools to accomplish your goals. So, without […]

Like any human relationship, bringing on a new employee is part strategy, part serendipity. But for a small business, there’s a third challenge in the mix: your time and budget are both limited. Smaller organizations don’t always have an HR team like large companies do. Your recruiting strategies may be undefined (or scribbled on a […]

When you see a movie that blows your mind or eat at a restaurant that leaves you craving more, what’s one of the first things you do afterward? If you’re like most of us, you tell your friends all about it. Employee referral programs, when used effectively, tap into this human desire to share things […]