2021: A Look Back with BambooHR®
With a “new normal” popping up every week, 2021 has been all about being adaptive and creative in the face of continuing change.
We’ve all spent 2021 trying to understand the changes 2020 imposed on the world and the way we live and work in it. Here are a few ways you used BambooHR to keep doing great things despite all this upheaval. We’ll also give you a little peek at what we were up to at BambooHR.
You stayed busy.
BambooHR customers recorded 165,625,000 logins in 2021 to check data and make requests.
That’s 315 logins every minute!
See how BambooHR helped The Centre for Family Medicine rapidly staff COVID-19 vaccination clinics to meet the needs of their community.
16,693,991
time off requests
1,229,183
timesheets approved
84,601
payroll runs
160,691
W2 forms created
Sylvia Decker, HR and Operations Manager
Rachel Chisholm, CHRP, HR and Executive Associate
You stayed busy.
BambooHR customers recorded 165,625,000 logins in 2021 to check data and make requests.
That’s 315 logins every minute!
See how BambooHR helped The Centre for Family Medicine rapidly staff COVID-19 vaccination clinics to meet the needs of their community.
Sylvia Decker, HR and Operations Manager
Rachel Chisholm, CHRP, HR and Executive Associate
You created (lots of) jobs.
If 2020 was the year nobody saw coming, 2021 was the year we had to become pros at rolling with the punches. Mask mandates came and went and came back again, vaccine roll-outs were met with every emotion on the spectrum, and the Great Resignation got underway.
In the midst of it all, you had businesses to run, but you found good people to help you do it:
you posted
381,902
job openings
and hired
400,584
applicants
Hopefully, we helped make the
1,460,700
new hire packets completed
smooth sailing for you and your new hires.
Meanwhile at BambooHR...
We’ve been trying to find more ways to help you put your people first. So we created The Era, a new BambooHR podcast hosted by our CEO, Brad Rencher, with
6 episodes
exploring the era of employee experience
4 hours
of insights from business leaders, HR experts, and workers
18 guests
sharing their stories and expertise on how to empower employees
We also got to know you better by conducting over
1,667 hours
of customer research
including interviews, case studies, and surveys.
And with your help, we
launched
68
product updates and features
added
18
new partners to the BambooHR Marketplace
for a total of
110
third-party integrations
all of which make BambooHR better, faster, and easier for you to use.
Wondering what we improved in BambooHR? Check out our product year in review.
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You got strategic.
You know how essential it is to analyze your company data and understand your workforce.
That’s why you generated
797,277
reports
in BambooHR to help your organization make strategic decisions.
But you didn’t stop there. In fact, you
created and completed
506,567
goals
submitted
575,903
peer feedback surveys
and completed
690,198
self assessments.
See how Civtec improves employee experience and communicates consistently across four branches with the help of BambooHR.
Josie Keucke, People and Culture Manager at Civtec
Meanwhile at BambooHR...
We were doing our best to support your goals. Despite spending (approximately)
1,000,000
hours relearning how to wear khakis
and another
10,000
hours trying to button the darn things.
We were able to close
512,432
support tickets
which equates to...
144,506
hours of one-on-one time with customers
But while that was helpful, we also wanted to give you a ton of entertaining and relevant content, too. So we did, starting with
68
blog articles
8
ebooks
10
infographics
191
user help guides
2,750
minutes of instructional video content
16,139
product demonstrations
Take a closer look at our best work from 2021.
Here are a few of our favorites:
COVID-19 & Careers: The Effect of the Pandemic on Career Progression
Read Full Report 
Hybrid Work: Expectations vs. Reality
Read Full Report
How the Right Definition of “Culture Add” Reduces Bias in Hiring
Read Blog Article
During Pride Month and Beyond: Set Your LGBTQ+ Employees Free to Do Great Work
Read Blog Article
And we ended by hosting our biggest HR virtual conference yet, with over 40,000 registrants, 63 presenters, and 31 hours of HR industry and business thought leadership insights.
More Than Just Numbers
Moving forward after a year of catastrophe took invaluable support, hard work, and dedication from colleagues, customers, and loved ones—we can’t quantify all of their efforts, or yours, nor would we try. But we’ll keep doing our best to give you the tools and resources you need to create better workplaces.