Ask BambooHR
AI chat that answers employees’ routine HR questions and gives admins insights
An AI chat assistant that answers employees’ routine HR questions and gives admins insights. It may already be switched on in an account. BambooHR: “Ask BambooHR: Uses AI to answer routine HR questions for employees and provide key insights for admins”. BambooHR: “Ask BambooHR: May be automatically activated in your account.”
Bamboo AI
beta assistants that build reports, summarise and compare payroll runs, and draft and adjust shift schedules
Beta assistants that work through a conversation: they build and refine custom reports, summarise and compare payroll runs with smart payroll reminders, and draft and adjust employee schedules. BambooHR: “Bamboo AI is available in open beta to all BambooHR customers.” BambooHR: “Bamboo AI includes capabilities designed to help with payroll workflows including summaries to compare your payroll runs and smart payroll reminders.”
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your BambooHR settings or ask your administrator
Data Hygiene Widget
AI agent that finds missing employee data and emails employees to fill it in
Finds missing information in employee profiles; an AI agent in Ask BambooHR walks the admin through what to request, then BambooHR emails each employee asking them to update their own profile. It is a beta feature. BambooHR: “Selecting Review & Fix Issues opens a conversation in Ask BambooHR, where an AI agent helps you review detected issues and choose which categories of missing information employees should update.” BambooHR: “After you confirm the selected categories, personalized outreach is automatically sent to eligible employees.”
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your BambooHR settings or ask your administrator
Job Organization
Bamboo AI suggests job families, career tracks, levels and job codes during set-up
Suggests a job structure — job families, career tracks, levels and job codes — when an admin sets up job organisation. It is part of the Bamboo AI open beta. BambooHR: “Use Bamboo AI to get suggested job families, career tracks, levels, and job codes.”
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your BambooHR settings or ask your administrator
AI-generated summary
plain-language AI summaries of each benefit plan for employees during enrolment
During benefits enrolment, each plan card shows an AI-written summary of what the plan covers and when someone might choose it. It is a beta feature. BambooHR: “It does not use your health data, claims history, or personal medical information.”
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your BambooHR settings or ask your administrator
AI Topic Summaries
groups employees’ eNPS survey comments into likes, dislikes and suggestions by topic
Groups the written comments from employee satisfaction (eNPS) surveys into likes, dislikes and suggestions, and then into topics, with charts. It needs no set-up once eNPS surveys are on. BambooHR: “This feature uses AI to group employee comments from eNPS surveys into various topics and provides additional charts for reviewing the data.” BambooHR: “For customers who have already enabled the eNPS surveys, no additional setup is required to access this feature.”
AI summarized feedback
summarises the peer and upward feedback on each employee at the top of their Performance tab
Summarises the peer and upward feedback given about an employee and shows the summary at the top of the Feedback section on their Performance tab. An admin turns it on. BambooHR: “AI summarized feedback uses AI to automatically summarize peer and upward feedback, helping you review key information without manually analyzing each feedback response.”
AI goal suggestions
AI drafts goals and suggests personalised goals from 1:1 notes, assessments, job title and feedback
Helps employees and managers write SMART goals and suggests personalised goals on the Performance tab, drawing on 1:1 meeting notes, assessments, job title and feedback. Suggestions can be dismissed and every goal can be edited. BambooHR: “This feature uses existing information in BambooHR to generate personalized goal ideas and guide you through building SMART goals.” BambooHR: “There is not a way to turn off the AI goals.”
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your BambooHR settings or ask your administrator
AI-Generated Recognition Suggestions
suggests coworkers to recognise, with personalised suggestions
Suggests coworkers an employee may want to recognise, with personalised suggestions. It is switched on automatically. BambooHR: “Uses AI to identify coworkers who may deserve recognition and provide personalized recognition suggestions based on information already available in BambooHR.” BambooHR: “Is automatically turned on.”
AI-assisted writing
rewrites recognition messages longer, shorter, more professional, casual or fun
Rewrites a recognition message to make it longer, shorter, more professional, more casual or more fun; the new text replaces the original and can be undone. BambooHR: “After entering a message, you can use AI-assisted (if enabled) writing tools to modify the content.”
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your BambooHR settings or ask your administrator
AI-generated benchmarking
AI picks a peer group of similar companies to compare HR metrics against
Automatically picks a peer group of at least five similar companies — by size, industry and labour market — for comparing HR metrics in standard reports. It is a beta feature. BambooHR: “AI-generated benchmarking (Beta) uses Bamboo AI to automatically create a peer group of companies similar to yours.”
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your BambooHR settings or ask your administrator
Dashboards & Analytics
AI summaries of dashboard results and an AI formula builder for charts
In custom dashboards, AI summarises the trends and patterns in query results and turns a plain-language description of a calculation into a chart formula. BambooHR: “AI analyzes custom dashboard query results and summarizes important trends and patterns to help you quickly understand your data.” BambooHR: “AI turns a natural-language description of the calculation you want into a formula you can use when building custom dashboard charts.”
- Where to check the switch
- No switch found — look in your BambooHR settings or ask your administrator
