6 advantages of Bob over Personio
See the advantages of using Bob over Personio for managing people and processes in times of change.
Say hi to HR software that manages all of your global processes and people
Managing HR processes around so many unpredictable market changes can quickly spin out of control.
Whether you have a few people across multiple sites or manage hundreds of people remotely, Bob supports how you need to roll with your HR strategy.
Bob is great for many reasons - it's very user-friendly and has a great look and feel. We use it across 4 different countries, and it's able to handle all the different types of leave, employment types, and multiple other differences between each of our sites.
Victoria B.Italy
#1
What HR leaders like in Bob over Personio:
- Reviewers found Bob easier to use, set up, and administer.
- Reviewers felt that Bob meets the needs of their business better than Personio.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, G2 reviewers preferred the direction of Bob over Personio.
- Reviewers also preferred doing business with HiBob overall.
#2
Support change in changing times
When you need to adapt and respond quickly to the changing needs of the business and your people, Bob lets you easily scale up or down without compromising your HR performance.
- Create workflows that can be duplicated and changed in a few clicks to save admin time.
- Integrate with other tech tools in your company on a global scale to make HR processes more efficient.
- Add new features when you need them by simply turning on a toggle button.
- Test changes before going live in a safe sandbox environment using a copy of your live environment.
Bob is easy on the eye interface, easy to use for colleagues, and has a variety of functionality, and all colleagues find it user-friendly.
Beatrice S.United Kingdom
#3
Manage multiple sites and strategies with flexibility and configurability
Meet your people where they are with nuances in your HR programs, policies, and processes that fit the local way of work.
- Run all your global HR from a central location, then localize regionally to fit specific needs.
- Change Bob’s language and currencies to a preferred version for a region or site.
- Build customized reports on racial equality and ethnicity standards to fulfill board and government requirements.
- Integrate payroll from Bob’s central platform to local payroll systems and comply with local regulations.
- Create remote onboarding workflows to onboard anyone from anywhere
A great HR software with a clean and simple user interface. Bob is simple to comprehend, and the UI works effectively for employees and employers throughout maintenance and setup.
Jena L.Sr. Human Resources Benefits Manager, United States
#4
Shape your HR strategy with people data
Bring the value of HR to stakeholders, managers, and executives with dashboards and insights based on company-wide people data.
- Create customized reports on HR performance that show outcomes of key initiatives over time.
- Use popular pre-built templates for the metrics management wants to see most, like headcount, growth, and retention.
- View the data according to any grouping, such as site, department, seniority, gender, and more.
HiBob has transformed how we use and interpret our people data!! The dashboards and reports section is such a time saver and allows you to easily see data at your fingertips, enabling us to be more agile, identify problems sooner, and make decisions quicker.
Beth N.Head of People and Culture, UK
#5
Engage employees with an HR platform that is fun and easy to use
Embrace the challenge of global work with a modern platform that bridges the culture gap and gives people a central place to engage and connect.
- Allow your people to engage and react to company news, updates, and kudos and shoutouts for employee recognition—all on the homepage.
- Discover more about colleagues with personal profiles that contain preferred pronouns, name pronunciation, and a short personalized intro video.
- Give managers the tools they need to connect with people and teams and keep everyone on track.
- Pre-board employees before day one with eSign documents, org charts, and a chance to get to know colleagues before they start.
#6
Create a culture of trust and belonging
Use Bob to set up a culture of transparency where people understand your company’s direction and feel like part of the success.
- Invite feedback with polls and surveys, then show them you’re listening by acting on their answers.
- Provide a safe place to be heard with the anonymous reporting tool, Your Voice.
- Use the Company Doc center to store company policies and procedures and give employees access to those they need.
- Put 360° performance management in place that empowers employees to be part of the process and gain valuable feedback.
Love Bob for the culture features like shoutouts, kudos, integrated reviews, integrated surveys, general workflow automation, and integration with other tools like Slack and Gmail.
Katrin A.People Team, Germany
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FAQs
How can I put HR processes in place and still keep up with changes that are happening for my HR team almost every day?
That’s what modern HR tech is all about. Set up your HR processes with workflows and task lists in Bob, and then quickly and easily make changes in a few clicks. Add or remove stakeholders to an approval process, create a local process for one or more sites, or create a custom process with your own field in any workflow or dashboard you need. It’s as simple as a few clicks in Bob.
Why do employees like using Bob?
Bob’s UX/UI was designed from the start to break the boundaries of traditional HR tech and be a game-changer for HR and employees.
People can use Bob intuitively without instructions with a friendly UX/UI that functions similarly to a social media app. Employees easily find where to go to request time off, reference company docs, or find out who’s who in an org chart with multiple ways to view.
How can I manage a multi-national workforce while providing a localized experience for my people?
Bob lets you localize and personalize experiences for your people around the world. A few examples include: customizing the platform in the local language, changing currencies, showing local holiday calendars to all people globally, integrating with payroll providers for local compliance, sending relevant communications to specific teams or sites, and configuring different workflows for HR processes that allow each site to work according to their own particular needs. And all of this can be done with no need forCan I manage local and global payroll with Bob? professional services.
Can I manage local and global payroll with Bob?
Yes! Bob is built to manage both local and global payroll processes, providing its customers with one place to manage all their payroll cycles. Rather than being limited to a single payroll system embedded in the platform, Bob allows you to integrate with multiple leading payroll system providers worldwide, helping you meet local requirements and regulations across all your locations.
Does Bob support remote onboarding?
Yes, HR can set up automated workflows that include resources, documents for e-signatures, information about the company, plus step-by-step checklists explaining how to get set up on company platforms and channels. Loop in IT to send equipment early and show org charts to learn team structure even before the start date.
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