BambooHR

Description Features Permissions Security & Compliance

Discover how the BambooHR app for Slack brings your favorite HR tools directly into the place where your team collaborates most. From planning time off to checking who’s out, BambooHR’s top features are now just a slash command away, but that’s not all… the BambooHR App for Slack can now use the power of AI to answer more questions!What Your Team Can Do:Ask BambooHR: Your AI-Powered HR Assistant (Core and Pro customers only)
Introducing Ask BambooHR, our new AI-powered assistant integrated into Slack! Need clarity on company policies, HR-related questions, or insights from your HRIS data? Just type your query, and Ask BambooHR will provide instant, accurate answers—saving you time and effort.
To learn more about Ask BambooHR, please visit https://www.bamboohr.com/hr-software/ask-ai-assistant.Plan and Manage Time Off
• Check their available time off balances
• Calculate time off balances for dates in the future
• Submit new time off requestsEmployee Directory at Your Fingertips
• Quickly look up coworkers’ details, like emails and departments, with simple commands.Who's Out? We've Got the Answer
• See who’s out of the office today.
• Filter results by department, division, or location to find exactly what you need.Tools for Managers and Approvers:Stay in the Loop
• Receive notifications for new time off requests directly in Slack.
• Get alerted when timesheets are ready for your review—no extra steps required. About BambooHRWith over 1,500 employees, 35,000 customers, and more than two million users worldwide, BambooHR is a leading platform for Human Resources in the SMB market. We make it easy for HR professionals to collect, maintain, and analyze data while improving how organizations hire, onboard, and nurture their people. BambooHR empowers businesses to focus on what matters most—their people and culture.Trusted by innovators like Asana, Foursquare, Stance, and Reddit, BambooHR is designed to help your organization thrive.Try BambooHR free for 7 days: https://www.bamboohr.com/signup/You must set up the Ask BambooHR feature in your BambooHR system before it will be available in the BambooHR app for Slack. The Ask BambooHR AI Assistant can make mistakes. Please double check important information.A paid Slack plan is required to take full advantage of the Slack Agent and Assistant features.

Permissions

BambooHR will be able to view:

BambooHR will be able to do:

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General

Privacy & data governance

Data retention policy

Notwithstanding anything in this Privacy Policy to the contrary, we will retain your information for as long as your account is active, as needed to provide you with the Services or fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable law. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. See our Terms of Service (https://www.bamboohr.com/terms-of-service/) and Privacy Policy (https://www.bamboohr.com/privacy-policy/).

Data archiving and removal policy

In the event your subscription is terminated, other than in instances where it is terminated by BambooHR for your nonpayment or violation of Sections 4.1 or 13, you will continue to have the ability to download the information provided, inputted or uploaded to your databases in the BambooHR® Service by you or on your behalf (“Data”) for 30 days after the effective date of expiration or termination of your subscription. After such 30-day period or if your subscription is terminated due to your nonpayment or violation of Section 4.1, BambooHR shall have no obligation to maintain any Data and shall thereafter, unless legally prohibited to do so, or required pursuant to Additional Terms, delete all of your Data contained in the BambooHR® Service. If you subscribe to the “BambooHR® Payroll Service”, also known as TRAXPayroll® as described in section 15.2, BambooHR may maintain your payroll data for 10 years, as necessary to fulfill the legal and tax requirements for its payroll services, from the time that it provides a specific payroll service to you or files taxes on your behalf.

Data storage policy

BambooHR shall maintain commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the Service, and the security of your Data. BambooHR shall not (a) disclose your Data except as compelled by Applicable Law or as you expressly authorize in writing, or (b) access your Data except to provide the Service and prevent or address service or technical problems, or at your express request in connection with customer support matters. In the event BambooHR is compelled by Applicable Law to disclose your Data, we will provide you with notice thereof, (in advance, if possible) if permitted by Applicable Law.

Data center location(s)

United States, Canada, Ireland

Data hosting details

Cloud hosted

Data hosting company

AWS, GCP

App/service has sub-processors

yes

Guidelines for sub-processors

https://www.bamboohr.com/data-processing-agreement/

App/service uses large language models (LLM)

yes

LLM model(s) used

OpenAPI models including gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini.

LLM retention settings

BambooHR retains prompts for quality purposes according to https://www.bamboohr.com/legal/bamboohr-artificial-intelligence-addendum. OpenAI retains data for 30 days to check for abuse. Customer data is not used by OpenAI for model training.

LLM data tenancy policy

BambooHR stores prompts in a multitenant environment. OpenAI data complies with GDPR and other privacy laws. See https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy/.

LLM data residency policy

Prompts retained by BambooHR are stored in US, Ireland, and Canada data centers depending on the location and needs of an individual customer and applicable laws. See https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy/ for OpenAI's policies.

Certifications & compliance

Security