BambooHR is an all-in-one HR platform that helps you manage every step of the employee journey, gain strategic insight into your HR data, and build a purposeful employee experience.
Gusto's main focus is payroll. While its compensation tools are well-developed, its general HR features aren't as robust, leaving you with gaps in supporting your employees and the growth of your organization.
BambooHR: Our award-winning applicant tracking system gives you the power to:
Gusto: Gusto doesn’t have an ATS, so you’ll need to find and pay for a third-party provider or do it all yourself using email or paper files. Either way, it's going to mean more time headaches.
BambooHR: We make all your data easier to gather, access, and analyze--securely and accurately:
Gusto: Though it offers self-service and custom reports, Gusto's reporting capabilities are fairly limited even at higher price points.
BambooHR: We make all your data easier to gather, access, and analyze—securely and accurately:
Gusto: Though it offers self-service and custom reports, Gusto's reporting capabilities are fairly limited even at higher price points.
BambooHR: Our intelligent engagement feature, BambooHR® Employee Satisfaction, replaces old-fashioned surveys with a simple, anonymous, two-part questionnaire and the proven power of eNPS®* scoring. Analytics include:
Gusto: Gusto offers employee surveys, but it only tracks general trends over time, making it harder to understand and act on employee feedback.
BambooHR: You get a beginning-to-end set of tools to give new hires a warm welcome, with time-saving features like:
Gusto: Since Gusto doesn't have a native ATS, you'll need to manually enter new hire information or double-check it synced correctly (if using a third-party integration).
BambooHR (U.S. only): Payroll in BambooHR is fast, simple, and easy, so you can:
Gusto: PCMag nominates Gusto as the "best all-around payroll website for small businesses." However, PCMag's editors only recommend it to "new payroll managers and very small businesses (1-10 employees)."
BambooHR: Our Support Heroes get rave reviews from customers—we're literally award-winning.
Gusto: Gusto customers complain about the poor quality of the support, frequently mentioning the following problems:
BambooHR: BambooHR is consistently rated as one of the easiest-to-use HR platforms because of its friendly, intuitive interface.
Gusto: In their review of Gusto, PCMag editors point to sluggish page loads as a consistent problem in the user experience.