BambooHR Blog | Human Resources Blog

Performance & Culture • 3 min

Employees Need Regular Feedback: Ditch your Annual Performance Review

Performance management is more than checking a box; it’s about cultivating culture and inspiring employee growth. Continual feedback and check-ins are key.

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Onboarding • 3 min

3 Questions Your New Hire Will Have on the First Day

The first day on the job can be difficult and exciting, but must be handled well. Here are 3 questions your new hires may have and how you can help them!

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HR Insights • 3 min

3 Ways To Help Employees—and their Food—Coexist

Do employees complain to you about missing food? Here are 3 tips to encourage keeping the peace when employees are sharing their food’s living space.

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Product Announcements • 1 min

Product Update: Profile Picture Uploader Redesign

We’ve simplified our upload process and redesigned our profile picture uploader. You can drag and drop an image to the uploader to add a an employee photo.

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HR Insights • 2 min

4 Ways Human Resources Uses Pinterest

Pinterest is more than a photo board for kitchen ideas. It also help HR professionals do our jobs. Learn about four ways HR is using Pinterest as a tool.

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Performance & Culture • 4 min

Where’s the Breaking Point for Employees? [INFOGRAPHIC]

We completed a survey of over 1,000 current US employees to find out what frustrates them at work. Learn about the top workplace deal breakers now.

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Product Announcements • 2 min

Integrations: BambooHR and Bitium Team Up

BambooHR and Bitium join their systems together. Bitium’s corporate password management system lets you monitor and control password strength to protect data.

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Performance & Culture • 4 min

Can Employees Change Culture Without Leaders On Board?

Can employees change the company’s culture on their own? Here are some things you can encourage your people to do before taking that drastic last step:

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HR Insights • 1 min

Hard Work and the Value of Recognition

We believe work should be an outlet for greatness and every company can achieve greatness. So today, let's all celebrate hard work and the value of recognition!

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Product Announcements • 1 min

BambooHR and OrgChart Now “Come Together, Right Now”

We at BambooHR love getting finding other like-minded companies who want to make our customers’ jobs easier. That’s why we've integrated with OrgChart Now.

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Product Announcements • 1 min

Export-o-matic: BambooHR Finds Another Way to Save HR Time

We have come up with another feature to save HR time. You can export data from BambooHR and import it into a different system with our new Export-o-matic.

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Onboarding • 3 min

How Can Small Companies Offer an Outstanding Onboarding Experience?

Companies need to make sure new employees feel welcomed, oriented, trained, networked and integrated with an outstanding onboarding experience.

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Onboarding • 4 min

Being Onboarded by the “Onboarding Guys”

Since we now know what new hires want, we have to do what we’re telling others to do. Check out our new hire Ian's blog recounting his onboarding experience.

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Product Announcements • 1 min

BambooHR and Okta Integration

The BambooHR and Okta integration makes sense because we both know it’s important to manage things—employee data, PTO and applications—from a central location.

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HR Insights • 3 min

April’s Not-As-Foolish Day—HR Edition

Instead of wrapping your neighbor's equipment in tin foil, consider some of these playful jokes to turn April Fool's Day into April's Not-As-Foolish Day:

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Product Announcements • 2 min

You Asked for It! New ATS Reports

BambooHR announces three new reports in our ATS: Applicant Sources Report, Applicant by Race/Gender, and Applicant by Veteran Status/Gender.

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Product Announcements • 1 min

Growing? Our New Headcount Report Can Track It

The new headcount report shows you how many employees your company had at specific time (and lists who they were). It will also show you visual growth trends.

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Product Announcements • 2 min

BambooHR and Cornerstone Growth Edition Team Up

BambooHR and Cornerstone OnDemand's small business solution, Cornerstone Growth Edition, team up to allow shared users to sync up and exchange information.

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Benefits & Comp • 1 min

Sick Days: Do You Have a Healthy Policy in Place?

Make sure your sick-day policy benefits both your company and your employees Learn the ways you can organize sick days with BambooHR.

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Onboarding • 3 min

Onboarding: 3 Tips to Immerse New Employees Right Away

Onboarding should start off with a bang so new hires feel they’re off to a great start. Here are 3 tips that will help you get—and keep—them in the pool.

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Product Announcements • 3 min

Sneak Peek: New Navigation in BambooHR

We are working on new updates, making BambooHR the best, easiest-to-use HR software out there. This sneak peek focuses on BambooHR's global navigation.

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Product Announcements • 2 min

BambooHR: A Great Company to Work For

BambooHR was selected by Utah Business as one of 2013's Best Companies to Work For. It’s an honor to be included with 34 others as a top company to work for.

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Product Announcements • 2 min

BambooHR and Jobvite Join Forces

We’re excited to announce that BambooHR and Jobvite, a leading applicant tracking system, have joined forces to simplify the entire employee lifecycle!

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Product Announcements • 1 min

Check out our Newly Polished API Documentation

We recently gave our API a facelift: Our documentation was reorganized to make it super easy to find and understand (we’ve rewritten our status codes).

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Product Announcements • 2 min

Customize BambooHR to Keep Tabs All Over the World

You can customize BambooHR to track visas for employees working around the world. Learn about this custom table for international employees now.

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People Data & Analytics • 3 min

Efficient HR: How Employee Self-Service Saves Time

With employee self-service, BambooHR saves you time by allowing employees to check and update addresses for themselves and check current time-off accruals.

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Product Announcements • 2 min

BambooHR Is Safe Harbor Certified

BambooHR is Safe Harbor Certified. We adhere to the U.S.-European Union and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework. Stamp. We never share data with anyone else.

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Product Announcements • 3 min

Rev Up the Engine: New Reporting Features Are Here

We revamped BambooHR’s reporting features to give you a lot more possibilities. It will seem new and different, but you’ll love organizing your new reports.

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Performance & Culture • 2 min

Employee Bonding: How Work Benefits

Bonding at work establishes a work environment that allows everyone to feel comfortable. Find out how you can promote employee bonding in your company!

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Onboarding • 2 min

Make Onboarding a Walk in the Park

HR software allows you to manage onboarding tasks so you’re focused on helping new employees rather than simply checking items off your list.

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Product Announcements • 3 min

Meet ATS—BambooHR’s Applicant Tracking System

You can now store applicant information in BambooH's cloud-based, central database. Learn more about our customizable applicant tracking system (ATS) today.

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HR Insights • 2 min

Tracking Time-Off: The PTO Life Cycle

If your company uses HR software, you can rein in all PTO requests and approvals and easily manage all your employees' comings and goings.

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Product Announcements • 2 min

Custom Email Alerts: How They Can Save Your Life!

One of the perks of switching from spreadsheets to HR software is custom email alerts. You can automate emails to remind managers and employees about things

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People Data & Analytics • 2 min

Happy Little Clouds: How Cloud Storage Saves Your Data

"In the Cloud" means that BambooHR has your back and is storing your data for you. We store all of your data in a secure, centralized location.

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Onboarding • 4 min

Onboarding Advice Straight from the Fingertips of a New Hire

We all know the staggering costs of making a poor hiring decision. So what can you do to ensure a smooth onboarding experience and keep a great new hire?

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Product Announcements • 1 min

Kids Art Contest

When you're a 'family first' company, kids are a great indicator of success. To get them more involved we hosted a kids art contest. You can see the entr...

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People Data & Analytics • 1 min

What is an EEO-1 Report & How do I File One?

EEO-1 can be a stressful report to put together. Learn the need-to-know basics of EEO-1 and see how to create your report faster than you did last time.

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Product Announcements • 2 min

BambooHR Celebrates 5 Years of Waging War on Spreadsheets

There are countless numbers of small and medium businesses stuck using spreadsheets to manage HR data, and we want to save them hours of hassle by giving them easy, robust software that won't break the bank.

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People Data & Analytics • 4 min

Ten Secrets of Background Checks

Background checks by employers are on the rise. Whether you are getting checked or doing the checking, you need to know these ten secrets to protect yourself.

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Product Announcements • 2 min

When Customers Say Nice Things

Feedback from our customers is something we take very seriously. We’d like to return the love by spotlighting some of these people and their companies.

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