G2

Bilal K.

Marketing excutive/product specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/26/2026

"BambooHR Makes Everyday Leave Tracking and Seeing Who’s Out Effortless"

4.5/5

Describe the project or task BambooHR helped with:

BambooHR provides a centralized platform for managing employee-related tasks, from booking annual leave to accessing personal information and signed documents. It streamlines daily operations, reduces administrative burdens, and enhances accessibility to crucial HR data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about BambooHR?

What I like best about BambooHR is how useful it is for simple day to day tasks. I regularly use it to book annual leave, check how many holidays I have remaining and see who is in or out of the business. Having all this in one place makes things much quicker and saves having to contact HR for information I can easily find myself.

The who's out calendar is probably one of the features I use most. For example, if I'm on the phone with a customer and they ask to speak to someone in another team, I can quickly check BambooHR to see if that person is off that day. I can give the customer an answer straight away rather than putting them on hold or messaging around the business trying to find out.

That's actually been an unexpected benefit for me. I originally saw BambooHR mainly as somewhere to manage things like holidays and employee information, but I find myself using it during my normal working day as well. It's also useful when planning my own annual leave because I can check when other people are away before submitting a request. Overall, it makes a lot of those small everyday tasks much quicker and easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BambooHR?

There isn't anything major that I dislike about BambooHR, especially for the everyday things I use it for. One area I think could be improved is how the holiday calendar connects with other tools we use day to day. It would be useful if annual leave and other time off like appointments etc in BambooHR could automatically feed into my Outlook calendar, so I wouldn't need to check different places when planning meetings or looking at someone's availability.

I use the who's out calendar a lot, particularly when I'm speaking to customers and need to quickly whether someone from another team is available. Because of that, having that information more closely integrated with Outlook or Teams would make it even more useful.

It's not something that causes a major problem, but it would save a bit of time and make BambooHR feel more connected to the other tools I use throughout the working day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BambooHR:

To enhance BambooHR's functionality, consider integrating the holiday calendar with other tools like Outlook or Teams. This would streamline the process of checking availability and planning meetings, making it even more efficient for daily use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BambooHR solving and how is that benefiting you?

BambooHR makes it much easier having everything employee and HR related in one place, I can manage annual leave and half days, record things like appointments and bereavement leave, and access information around maternity and paternity leave without having to go back and forth with HR. Personal information changes, pay and bonus updates, signed documents and contract related information can all be managed and accessed through the same system.

It's also genuinely useful in my day to day work. If I'm on the phone with a customer asking for someone in another team, I can quickly check if that person is off rather than putting the customer on hold or messaging around to find out. Overall, it saves time, reduces unnecessary admin and makes important information much easier to access when you need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.