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What Is Bob?
Bob is the modern HR platform that simplifies complexity. With Bob, you can streamline your global core HR processes—such as onboarding, performance management, workforce planning, and compensation management—using automated workflows that increase efficiency and save precious time—even in a distributed workforce. Bob provides real-time quantifiable data that informs strategic decisions and impacts the bottom line. Bob helps dynamic companies bring out the best in their people.
Who Uses Bob?
Successful companies see value from Bob when they are: mid-sized, multi-national, put people first, need to tackle the complexities of global HR processes, and remain agile in an ever-changing world.
Where can Bob be deployed?
About the vendor
- Hibob HRIS Software
- Founded in 2016
Bob support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Bob pricing
Starting Price:
- No free trial
- No free version
Bob does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial.
About the vendor
- Hibob HRIS Software
- Founded in 2016
Bob support
- Phone Support
- Chat
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Features of Bob
Reviews of Bob
I've chosen bob over another great product I was using in the past and haven't regretted!
Comments:
ease of HR management, also our finance team benefits from easy holidays/absenses management, payroll reports and such.
I'm doing all admin in bob, from contracts to onboarding, org structure, salary changes etc
Pros:
It's very easy to use - user friendly interface, intuitive navigation, you can find whatever you need in the matter of seconds even if it's your first experience with the platform It's beautiful - our employees love it too The support team is amazing - they not only resolve any issues quickly, but they also listen to suggestions and implement them within reasonable time. I love getting product updates as I know that there will be something I asked about. The system features everything you'd want from a modern HRIS and even more - we love club feature and about section - it helps employees learn more about each other and find common interests. There's some functions that I'd love to have but they are not yet there (such as pre-boarding or e-signature) but the guys are constantly working on them and I've seen that for example e-signature is coming within next few weeks.
Cons:
If we are talking about bob as HRIS there's very few things that I don't like, or rather I would like to have and they are not yet there - prebording being one example. I'd love performance module to be more sophisticated but the guys have just introduced it and I see that it gets updated constantly, which is great. also, it's not a separate platform for performance management so I wouldn't expect it have all the features that other platforms dedicted to performance only have. There are other small things (such as I can't send a survey to 1 person only), but they are small compared to all the benefits and again, I know that sooner or later those will be resolved too.
Bob can be a great friend, but you need to know him well first
Comments: Bob is our HRIS. Whether that’s our people themselves (being able to see all of their employment information in one place, being able to book a holiday and see when others have time off), our managers (getting a full view of their team’s details - salaries, job titles, locations in one place and seeing time off in full view in order to capacity plan accurately) or our People, Culture and Inclusion team (reporting, right to work checks, onboarding new folks, onboarding ourselves onto new systems and employment changes) - all of these things get simpler with Bob. We make a great use of the automation of tasks that Bob allows to build, from new joiners to leavers, from probation and onboarding to parental leave, we have created flows that automatically assign tasks to the relevant people, to make sure nothing is missed on important lifecycle phases of employees.
Pros:
great user and admin experienceDEIB focus with pronouns and demographic fieldsmass loading possible super quick implementationautomation of tasks and workflows
Cons:
Automations don't always workSupport is patchy and relies too much on users being able to solve the problem themselvesA lot of workarounds are necessary to overcome Bob's limitations
Alternatives Considered: Personio and Humaans
Reasons for Switching to Bob: Quick implementation, onboarding & pre boarding workflows were suitable based on our needs, the UI is intuitive
Review of HiBob
Comments: Bob has become our main HR system and allows us to track all the absences and employee information. We also use it as a base for the monthly payroll and use various reports. Bob provides a good onboarding experience for the new starters and allows employees to bond over some additional, fun information such as hobbies, food preferences, superpowers etc.
Pros:
Very easy to use, helpful and quick customer support and account management, user-friendly layout.
Cons:
Sometimes there can be limited functionality - examples include not being able to amend the automatic responses (onboarding) or adjusting holidays for part-timers.
Good application for for small companies.
Comments: Overall experience is positive, small companies which have less then 1K employees might find this app very useful,
Pros:
Very simple look, and quite intuative. It is good for small companies for managing employees time punchs and holiday requests.
Cons:
Lacking of regular updates, and feels like a bit empty and basic regarding the functions that other similar apps provide such as Polaris PSA's "Replicon".
Our HR team is happy with the simplicity of the program
Comments: The adaptability and simplicity of the system for the user. Ability to generate custom, digestible reports and analytics. The HR staff and the employees who have utilized it have given us nothing but positive feedback.
Pros:
HiBob is both easy for administrators to use and intuitive for end users. Good data visibility and an intuitive interface characterize the reporting features. Workflows are fantastic, in my opinion as well.
Cons:
Invisible drawbacks. Thanks to Bob's continuous updates and addition of new features in response to consumer input, any problems I've had have been swiftly and simply fixed.