BambooHR is a human resources management platform focused on small and medium-sized businesses that need to move beyond spreadsheets for managing employee data. The platform covers the core HR functions including employee records, time-off tracking, onboarding, performance management, and reporting. For custom web application development, BambooHR's API provides access to employee directory data, time-off balances, job information, and custom fields. This is valuable when building internal tools, project management systems, or operations dashboards that need to pull employee information from the company's HR system of record rather than maintaining a separate employee database.
BambooHR was founded in 2008 by Ben Peterson and Ryan Sanders in Lindon, Utah, a small city in Utah County about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. Both founders had worked at other software companies and saw firsthand how painful HR management was for companies with 50 to 500 employees. These businesses were too large to manage HR in spreadsheets but too small to justify the expense and complexity of enterprise HR systems from companies like SAP or Oracle. Peterson and Sanders built BambooHR to fill that gap, creating a system that was simple enough for non-technical HR managers to use from day one.
BambooHR is headquartered in Lindon, Utah, far from Silicon Valley, and the company has been intentionally vocal about the advantages of building a tech company outside of the Bay Area. The founders have spoken publicly about how Utah's lower cost of living allowed them to build a profitable company without raising massive amounts of venture capital. BambooHR was also one of the early advocates of the four-day workweek in the tech industry, implementing a reduced schedule for its employees during summer months years before the concept became a mainstream topic. The company used its own HR data to demonstrate that productivity did not drop during the shorter weeks.
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