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Transcript for "Beyond the Horizon: 2024 Highlights and 2025 Sneak Peek": Hello, everybody. I like how everyone's putting in the chat where you're from. So glad you guys are all here. We'll take just a few seconds to have more of you join. I'm seeing some folks in Utah. Coming from all over. I love it. Awesome. Okay. Well, hi, everyone. I hope you're all having such a great day, such a good Thursday so far, and thank you so much for being here and joining our webinar today. We know you have so many places that you could be, and we're we appreciate that you're spending that time with us, and we're all so excited that you're here. Before we get started, keep putting in where you're from, but I also want to know your favorite winter activity. It's starting to get really cold here in Utah, and I'm definitely needing some ideas to stay sane this winter. So I would love some ideas. Okay. Today, we're gonna be talking about some of our favorite product updates and releases from 2024 along with a sneak peek into early 2025. But before we jump into the content, let's just review some of, our housekeeping items. First, this webinar is being recorded. Don't worry. You can come and review it again. If you have to leave early or whatever it is, you can definitely watch again. So you can use the same link that you use to enter to watch anytime an hour after this webinar is over, and you'll also receive an email tomorrow morning, reminding you of all of that information. We also want to get to all of your questions. We have a few folks backstage that are helping us out today. So please use that q and a tab to submit those questions, and we will answer those as those come in. While you're hearing about some of the new updates and those that are coming, and if you don't currently have access to them but you want pricing information, you can click, upgrade my account, that button at the top of your screen, anytime throughout the webinar and someone will reach out to you, later today or tomorrow. And then one last thing, if you haven't heard, we have an HR community that's hosted in Slack that you can join for free, where you can connect with BambooHR customers, other HR leaders, whether that's about wins or hard things that you're facing and just share ideas. So, use that, QR code right there and join that, and we'd love to see you in there. Okay. I want to just introduce you briefly to our product marketing team. They're gonna be leading out on this webinar, and they are so excited, to tell you about all the amazing things that the product team is working on. And we truly love all of your feedback and we really take that into consideration. So they'll introduce themselves as they are speaking today, but I want to pass the stage off to, Camilla, and she's going to talk all about, ATS updates. And I'm actually just kidding. We're actually gonna start with a poll. I would love to know why you're joining today's webinar, and we're going to launch that for you. So you can go over to the poll tab in the green section, and answer that, but we'd love to hear why you're here today. Now a lot of you are really excited about 2025 product leads. We are as well. Awesome. As you keep answering that, we're gonna just dive in. So we're, going to I'm gonna pass the stage off to Camilla, and she's going to share all about, our exciting updates to our ATS. Let me just share those slides again for you. Awesome. Camila, off to you. Awesome. Thanks, Autumn, and hello, everyone. I'm so excited to be here with all of you today. My name is Camilla Castellanco, and I'm a product marketing manager here at BambooHR. And I've got some fantastic updates to share on our ATS employee record and mobile app. So let's dive right in. Here at Bamboo, we know how important it is to hire the right people, to drive your organization's growth, and that's why I'm especially excited to highlight some of the recent updates we've made to our ATS. These new features are designed to help you save time, stay organized, and focus on identifying the best candidates for your roles. So first, we have, automated disqualifying questions. This feature helps you filter out candidates who don't meet specific criteria early in the process before you even start reviewing applications. For example, for this role, we've set a disqualifying question that requires a valid driver's license. So if a candidate doesn't meet this requirement, they'll automatically be removed from the active candidate list. Other examples of disqualifying questions could include, verifying legal work authorization, confirming necessary certifications or licenses, or any specific criteria your organization or the role might have. In case you're wondering, the screenshot on the right shows what disqualifying questions looks like on the applicant's side. It will show up as a yes or no question. Next, let's talk about job pipelines. This feature lets you customize your hiring process to fit the unique needs of each role. For example, for an account executive position, you might add stages like schedule a phone screen or reference check, mock sales call, interview with VP, interview with the team. You can add up to 10 custom statuses and easily drag and drop them to reorder if needed. So, for example, if you're hiring for a role like a software developer, you could add steps like a technical assessment or a coding challenge to tailor the process further. And once that job is live, the pipeline appears on the candidate overview page, like you see on the screen, letting you see how many candidates are in each status at any time. So this level of customization helps you align your hiring process with the specific needs of each role, whether it's a high volume position or a specialized one. And then, lastly, we have automated emails, our 3rd update. This feature ensures a smooth and professional communication with candidates at key touch points, saving you time and improving the candidate experience. For example, in the screenshot here, we've selected the regret to inform applicant option. So we can schedule to send it immediately or later. That's up to you, and personalize it by including, the recruiter's name for a personal touch. And what's great about these automated emails is that you, they help you maintain consistent communication, making sure that every candidate feels valued and informed regardless of whether they're moving forward or not in the process, which contributes to a positive employer brand and leaving a lasting impression that really matters to candidates who might be a great feature for future roles. So to sum up, automated emails gives you more control, helps you eliminate repetitive tasks, and allows you to focus on what really matters, which is building relationships with top talent. So all three updates to our ATS are available to our core and pro packages. And, now we can move to some exciting changes to employee records. We have rolled out, 2 game changing features over the last year that give you more flexibility in how you manage employee data. The first one, was employee custom field builder. We launched that one December of last year. And then custom tab builder, we launched August August of this year. So these updates give you power to create custom fields and tabs directly in BambooHR without needing to reach out to our support heroes. For example, you can create a custom tab for company devices to track equipment issued to employees. So if you want to add the computer, keyboard, or mouse, or any other data that's unique to your organization, you can do that using custom tabs. And we're not stopping there. Before the end of the year, we will be launching the custom table builder, which will help you track things like direct deposit or employee references in a more structured way. All three updates help you customize employee records to feed the needs, that you have and make it easier to track exactly what you need when you need it all from your BambooHR account. So both of these updates, custom tab builder and custom tables, are available for our core and pro packages. And before I wrap up, I wanted to share some mobile app updates on things that we have rolled out for 2024. So for our iOS users, we have added dark mode, making the app easier on your eyes, perfect if you're sensitive to bright light like me. You can also enable notifications directly in the app so that you never miss out on important updates. And we also have mobile parity with recent features like employee community or ask BambooHR and peer feedback. So all these are now available on the go for you as well. And in the coming weeks, we will be launching shift differentials and post time off accruals so you can manage time off accruals from anywhere. And if you haven't yet, be sure to download the app on using the QR codes on the screen. Our mobile app is available on both the App Store and Google Play. If you are already using it, that's amazing. We would love to hear your feedback. Please let us, please give us a review and let us know what you love about the app and how we can make your mobile experience even better. And now I'm excited to pass it over to Nick, who's going to walk you through our latest updates on compensation. Hey. Thank you so much, Camilla. I'm super excited, everyone. My name is Nick Scholes. I'm part of the product marketing team. At BambooHR, the goal of our compensation features is to help our customers establish clear, consistent frameworks for employee career progression and their compensation to improve career path transparency, ensure fairness and compensation, and increase employee happiness. So those are the goals that we have when we've been developing through the year. So let's talk about a few of the things that we provided. The first is our levels and bands tool. With the levels and bands tool in BambooHR, your company now has that structure to easily manage and track all those job levels, salary bands, and everything for your employees. That means that you can go in and define 1 or many job groups, you know, like a development group or a group for a particular office. You can create 1 or many job levels in a group, level 7 software engineers, 6, 5, 4. And you can associate a pay band with each of those level, 80 ks to a 100 ks, whatever it might be, and then just choose the employees inside your system in the organization that you can associate to each of those job groups. So this gives you a tool to give you an at a glance look of where all of your people sit inside these different levels and bands in your organization, and it provides a nice foundation for all the compensation planning that you're trying to do throughout the rest of the year. Obviously, when we saw the, you know, chance for a synergy here, we wanted to be able to take it. And so with this new source of data out of our levels and bands, we also added the ability to pull from levels and bands to display inside custom reports, you know, as you can see here. So that way when you're, pulling together a whole bunch of different fields and you need to be able to understand where people sit inside of those those areas, it's now much, much easier to be able to do that. This levels and bands, all of these these features, these are available for all of our packages, so anyone could be able to jump in there and use this as an organizational tool for your compensation. Next. We also saw, you know, a a after release need from our customers because we always want to be in contact with all of you and figure out what we can do to to make our tool even better every day for you. And they told us that they wanted, to you know, that they they may have stuff inside of a spreadsheet somewhere. They wanted to be able to pull, the data that they've been keeping track because everyone's keeping track of this somewhere. And they wanted to get it centralized in a BambooHR without having to recreate it all from scratch. So we went in quickly right after and we added the ability to import and export levels and bands data as well as save a draft of the work that you were doing. Sometimes levels and bands can take, you know, quite a bit of time to be able to do so being able to save a draft as you go, in that crucial process, especially with all the interruptions that our HR professionals go through was, something that was just a nice quality of life addition in addition to being able to import and export quickly and try and get this, set up so that you can have good, good compensation, policy throughout your organization. Next, I want to talk to you a little bit because, of course, it's related about our reporting areas. The ability to report on crucial HR data is central to all of our administrators' ability to make people related decisions. So we've spent time enriching that experience significantly this year. 1st, and this is a big one, is our new custom report builder. Now this is currently in early access, but it's going to be very soon, available to everybody, in in December. So it's something that we really wanted to talk about now while we had the opportunity. As long time customers, many of you probably know that custom reports, they've been a long, a long time and a great way to get insights into specific areas of the business so that you can drive positive change and make data driven decisions tailored for particular problems or opportunities in your organizations. Our current custom report builder has really served us well and it's very powerful, but we thought it deserved an upgrade to address some of the biggest pieces of feedback that we consistently hear about it. So as you can see here, not only is it more refined visually, especially matching up with, you know, the the new UI that we've released earlier this year, it's also going to give you real time previews of the report as you build it. There's no more surprises in the way it displays your data. There's no more building the report, going and seeing the report, and then going back to do the edit. You'll actually see it as it's displayed and be able to move pieces around so that you get exactly the report that you're hoping for. As I said, it is available currently in early access, but it will become the report builder experience for, all of our Quorum pro customers when it's released next month. Another addition that we added here is the ability to benchmark. Now we have a few benchmarks that are coming. The one that we did this year, that most of you have access to is that we wanted to be able to benchmark on turnover. Understanding attrition is a really crucial responsibility for all the teams in your organization, but with so many factors at play, you know, and no yardstick to measure it, it can be really hard to know what's considered normal. So BambooHR provided benchmarking on our turnover reports so that you can compare your turnover data with anonymized data from companies in your industry, of similar sizes to get answers, see trends, compare performance, and more. And these kinds of benchmarks, are really crucial when you're trying to just get a yardstick for where you feel like you should be at and then set goals for the coming year. So it's an especially powerful, addition to our our stable. This is a big one. AI, artificial intelligence is a powerful new tool for BambooHR administrators, and it has the ability to multiply your efforts and provide immediate returns on investment. We released our 1st major AI feature this year. We've had, you know, some other pieces as well that have been really crucial to the way that people, for example, interact with the NPS. We can we'll get into a little bit later. But let's get into this this big AI feature that we just launched in October. Ask BambooHR. This is our new AI powered chat interface that helps admins and owners reclaim the hours per week, many hours per week on average that they spend on routine HR questions. So Ask Bamboo HR is drawing from your data, HRIS records, org charts, benefit details, company policies, employee manuals, and and more. And it's all, you know, based on the choices that the administrator has to, to be able to add. And it gives the ability to quickly respond via that chat interface to all your employee questions that are often routine. Questions sent to ask BambooHR always also go through our permission engine, so you can tell your people to just go ahead and ask away because they're getting answers from data sources that they have access to in BambooHR and nothing more. Of course, employees deserve fast, reliable answers to questions no matter where they are. So as you can see over here on the right hand side, Ask BambooHR can receive and reply to questions in any language right out of the box, even if the languages don't match. If you just ask for the language you want the reply in, Ask Membo HR automatically translates the answer for you and provides it back. This is really a use for a company of any size, you know, small to to gigantic, you know, in US or international. Anyone can be able to get a lot of use out of this, and the big goal is to free up our administrators time. That's usually used on many of these routine questions that are important to the employee, but that can definitely constitute another interruption in their day. This gives you, kind of a line between you and those simple questions that are just interrupting some of the more strategic work that HR is being asked to do as a crucial business partner. So we hope that you'll jump in and give Ask Bamboo HR a try. You know, anyone on our core and pro plans, you can jump in there and get, use from it right there, today. And it's one of the the pieces we've gotten a lot of feedback about getting immediate ROI on just being able to focus down and and do more of those strategic, strategic tasks that HR is being asked to do. So with that, I'm gonna go ahead and hand it over for performance management to Paul. Awesome. Thanks so much, Nick. That was great. Hey, everybody. My name is Paul. I'm also with our product marketing team and excited to talk about a few, updates that we've made to our performance management this year as well as something exciting that's coming in the next few weeks. Let's jump into it here. The first one I wanna talk about, we released this feature back in April of this year, and it's custom feedback questions. As the name implies, it allows for adding custom questions to feedback and performance, just like you can in in the assessments as well. As part of this update, you can now also remove the 2 standard questions, what are some things named as well and how could name improve, and add your own custom questions if that works better for your company. So this adds a lot of flexibility, to performance and to the way you gather feedback at your organization. This is also a feature that is available now. It's already in part of our pro plan. Another, update we made to performance earlier this year was 360 or upward feedback. 360 and upward feedback, was released in May of this year, and it provides an option for employees to provide feedback about their manager. So that gives you the full 360 degree view of employee performance. You now have the ability to collect this upward feedback from direct reports. You can collect peer feedback, and then you can also obviously do the manager and the self assessment to give you that full perspective of an employee's performance. And this is another feature that is already, again, released and it's part of our our pro plan. The next one I will touch on here is mobile peer feedback. Many of you might have employees who aren't at a desk all day or, maybe they're just more comfortable on their phone. This was a feature that was released in April of this year as well and it gives employees the option to complete their feedback requests from the mobile app. This makes it easier for them to do those requests and they can do it on the go. So it's an exciting update we made there. The last one I'll mention here on performance is something that's coming in the near future, and this is an exciting one. If you went to our customer day event just last month, you might have heard about this. We are releasing a brand new one on ones feature, as part of performance in Bamboo. So you'll see at the top of the screenshot that, traditionally, performance in Bamboo has included 3 things. It's assessments, feedback, and goals. This is now gonna be a 4th thing in there, and this gives you the option, for managers to create a 1 on 1 meeting with their employees. And then they can, track things like agenda items, notes, and action items, both the manager and their employee. This tool will help you get your managers and your employees into BambooHR and more and keeping track of 1 on 1 meetings in the same place that they're already completing assessments and doing their feedback and tracking goals. So, again, this is an update that's coming, and it will be ready in the next few weeks which is exciting. And again, it's gonna be part of our Pro plan as well. Okay. That's it for performance. Let's jump into employee community. So employee community is a brand new feature that we released back in February of this year. Employee community, is your organization's hub for employee engagement and internal comps. In employee community, you can post announcements, make posts required reading for your employees who see who has read posts, prompt engagement through likes, comments, and GIFs, and create groups for different teams, topics, or maybe even just employees who want to talk about gardening, for example. Just in the last month, we saw over 30,000 employees at organizations organizations who use employee community interact in the employee community, which is fun. We love to see the clarity and the fun that it's bringing at your organizations. One additional call that I mentioned about employee community, just in the last few months, we've made employee community available from the BambooHR mobile app as well. With this update, employee community is easier to engage with for your employees that are that are on the go and they can read announcements and interact with groups right there from the BambooHR mobile app. And this is another feature that's part of our pro plan employee community. Another brand new feature we released back in February is total rewards. So total rewards, helps you communicate and show total compensation packages you offer your employees through this total rewards statement that you're seeing here. This statement pulls data you've already likely entered into BambooHR, info like employee salary and benefit info, bonuses, perks, equity, and more, and it just puts it into a clean, easy to read statement, that shows how much you're actually offering your employees. It's beyond just their salary or just their, the dollars that they make. Right? We're seeing our customers use Total Rewards to help show their employees that they're investing in them in more ways than just salary and helps, retain your best employees longer, which is exciting. This is a feature that's available on both our core and pro plans. K. Last one for me here, and then I'll I'll pass it on, is employee satisfaction. So, many of you are likely using our employee satisfaction tool to measure, how well employees like working at your organization. An update that we made to employee satisfaction this year, is these eNPS AI topic summaries. We gave the ENPS report a refresh earlier this year and then added these topic summaries, which helps you comb through all of the written data you receive from the satisfaction survey. The topic summaries neatly summarize employee comments about what they like and what they don't like about working at your company, making it more consumable for you and for your leaders, as as you get all of that data from the ENPS survey. So, it's another exciting one that we released there. That's it for me. I will pass it on over to Austin next to talk about payroll. Thanks, everybody. Alright. I feel like we all need a break to, like, come up for air. There's been so many product launches talked about already. So much goodness coming. So I'll give you every everybody, like, one second to just digest that for a minute, and then we'll jump into payroll. So excited to continue the train of product updates from 2024. One thing we did last year with payroll, if you've been a payroll customer with us or if you've been looking at our payroll, is we focused last year on getting all of our payroll right into BambooHR so that you didn't have to ever leave BambooHR to do your payroll functions, which was amazing. That new update that we provided to our customers, that ability to do their payroll right in one place, to to have their employees on that one place has been a huge benefit. But we didn't stop there. This year was all about getting more functionality to our payroll to really make it flexible for you and your especially your hourly employees and to make it easier for you to use. So let's jump into some of those updates. The first one is project pay rates. We launched this back in in May time frame, and this is all about giving you the ability to set up different projects and tasks, assign different pays for those tasks that your employees could clock in and out to those different tasks, and you could pay them multiple different rates of pay. And all those things they did within our time tracking, which is where this was set up, would then flow right into payroll, which is super exciting. Right when you get into the run payroll feature after your employees have tracked their time, they've approved their time sheets, you'll get onto that edit page and run payroll, and all those different hours will be broken out right here. So if your employee works 3 different job 3 different, projects or tasks, you'll see those tasks laid out on the edit page, the number of hours they worked, and the dollar amount associated with that. And that will also flow into their pay stubs and into our reporting so you can pull that data and see how those hours are broken out differently by the project they work on. The next release just actually happened on Monday of this week. You can now set up shift differentials for your employees, that use our time tracking. You'll go right into the time tracking within settings. You'll set up shift differentials. It's in the same area that project tracking was being set up, and you'll be able to build, different, shifts by time of day, day of week, number of employees you want on there, and you'll be able to actually change the dollar amount, for additional dollars per hour or even a percentage above what they're currently being paid for the hourly rate. This is a really exciting update for us. We just rolled it out, and the the, feedback so far has been really positive. A lot of people were using our project pay rates to solve some of this need. So now they have that ability to shift it over and do shift differentials and set it up and and, really customize it to their, workforce. And then when you go into run payroll, just like project pay rates, when you hit that edit page, you'll see not only if you have project pay rates but shift differentials set up. Those will come through and show you the different hourly rates they're paying, they're being paid, and the number of hours they worked with that shift or with that project. So just making it more flexible for you and your employees to be able to clock in and out and be able to capture their work they're doing at the rate they're doing that work. Another, release that happened this year that we've been continually improving over the the last 6 months is the custom journal entry reporting. You now have the ability to build reports, into your GL codes, and download those reports so that you can easily get your data right into your accounting software. This was one that used to be require you used to have to work through our payroll services team, pay an hourly rate to get them to build these reports for you. Now you can build them for yourselves right in BambooHR. You go into the settings under payroll, and you'll be able to build that journal entry report, be able to assign GL codes to it. And then you'll also be able to take those categories and move them around within, that report so that your columns come out exactly how you want them. So that when you're going to upload that into your accounting software, it'll be exactly organized how you want it to be. Just saving you time and really getting that data where you need it so that you can kind of, work with your workforce, understand the costs that are going into the different, things that you're doing, and, really help you with that accounting piece of your of your work. Finally, salary proration. We just launched this last month. You now have the ability, to set up to prorate your employees' pay when for new hires and terminated employees. So what happens is when you when a when a new employee starts mid cycle or they're terminated mid cycle, you'll you'll get a notification on the edit page within, within the run payroll page within the edit page. I'm sorry. And you'll be able to click on that. And when you click on the, that page, you'll be able to set up what you want that proration to be. We'll have the suggested wages based on the number of hours they've worked. You can calculate it yourself, or you can ignore it and not calculate it. You'll also be able to choose, the number of days you want included in that feature. So if your employee came on on a Thursday, you can set up Thursday, Friday, if your new pay period is starting the next week. Really easy for you to build that out, set up that salary proration, and that'll just flow right into your the rest of your payroll. Your place employees will be paid the right amount, And you'll be able to start a mid pay period versus having to wait, having to run them through the rest of the pay period or start at a new at the first of the new pay period, which is really exciting. Alright. A few other amazing updates that come that came out. We're not gonna dig into them quite as much, but we created payroll reporting. We really built it out, brought it into BambooHR. We created a payroll history so you can go back in time and see all your different payrolls. This was a huge one that our customers have been asking for so they could have that audit trail. And then I just wanted to mention 2 things that are coming in the next, 3 to 4 months. We're actually working actively to build out some accounting integrations. So if you want to not just use that custom journal entry report, but also automatically get that data into accounting software, we're build we're actively building this out for a few different, accounting accounting softwares that you'll be able to use in the coming months. And then finally, holiday pay. We are working really hard to to give you the ability to set up different pay for different holidays. So that's all automated for you, and you don't have to go in there and calculate it yourself. Just a couple of exciting updates. Those are coming in the next quarter, quarter and a half, and we'll keep you posted as we roll out those updates. That's it for me. I'm gonna pass it over to Panu for benefits administration. Hi, everyone. I'm excited to be sharing with you some of the key updates into our benefits administration product this year. So we launched our benefits administration add on, which is designed for US based employees just last year. And since then, there have been dozens of product updates to make it even better. And I wanna highlight 4 specific areas for you. If you happen to already be a benefits administration customer, make sure you're taking advantage of each of these features. The first is a brand new benefits administration dashboard. This central hub gives you quick access to creating new enrollment events, reviewing their progress, and viewing your plan data and notifications. This dashboard is going to be key to help you get benefits administration set up and to manage all of your benefits data in BambooHR along the way. Also, we understand that a key part of benefits admin is to give your employees a great experience. So we've made it really easy for your employees to make their benefit elections. You can set rules for when new employees make their benefit elections when creating a new plan year, and your employees can also initiate qualifying life events changes right from their employee profile. We also continue to add more and more automation into the product across all common plan types to make it easier for your employees to have the right information and rates visible to them. Recently, we've especially focused on automating more of the h banded voluntary life and a d and d plan settings for you so that the employee rates are automatically calculated for them based on their enrollment choices. The last thing that I want to mention about benefits administration today is that not only do we want to be the right solution for you, but for your broker as well. So now you can, create custom access levels to give your broker direct access to all of the benefits data in BambooHR. And, these are the updates from our product, this year, and now we're going to talk about what's coming next. Thank you, Panu. Hey, everyone. Good to see you all today. Isn't that isn't this exciting? I mean, everyone let's just take a breath for a second. Like, that was a lot of product updates that we just shared with all of you. Tons of exciting new enhancements and innovation that we brought to BambooHR this year. And it might be hard for all of you to keep all of that straight because we just went through a lot. And so we've actually created a a document that a PDF that can help you understand all of these updates, what the ones that we talked about today, and it's gonna help you understand which packages they're in as well because I know there's questions about that. Is this in my package? Is it not? And so you can find that. It's gonna be we're gonna put it in the chat. You can also go into the docs tab, and it's the bottom one on the docs tab, the 2024 product updates recap. If you go into that document, it's gonna share it's gonna tell you all the things we shared today. The different asterisks will help you understand which one belongs in which packages so you can understand, what packages, these updates are in and if it's in your package that you have. And at the end, we'll talk a little bit about how you could explore some of the other packages as well if if you'd like. But now I get to talk about the 2025 sneak peek. But before we do that, we we have to start with a poll. So we're gonna ask a question here that's gonna better understand if you, have the ability to to guess in all of the the number of launches that we had this year in BamBui HR. So was it 56, 76, 105, 148, 185? So how many launches did we do this year in BamBui HR? Go to the poll tab, answer the question. Let's see how many of you can get it right. K. So we have the responses coming in. Most of you think it's a 105. That's pretty good, but that's not as many as we did. We actually did 185 this year. Only 6% of you got that right, and that's okay. But that just shows you, the pace of innovation that we're bringing into BambooHR, and that investment is not stopping. We're gonna continue to invest in bringing more updates into Bamboo HR, and we're really excited about that. So I'm gonna share with you, some of these some of the innovations that we're making. And, but I wanna start first with the strategy that we utilize when we think about helping to set you free, in the work that you're doing. There's 3 pillars that the product team thinks about when building in BambooHR. The first is that everything works together. Now this is a combination of 2 things. 1 is that we have all the native solutions that you need in order to complete the work that's necessary at your organizations, And the second is that all of those things work together seamlessly to make your job really easy. The second is flexible and extensible. So not only do we want things at BanffoHR to be customized to your business needs and flexible to your processes, but we also wanna make sure that out that all of the data that you have in BambooHR can be extended, beyond just the BambooHR platform. That you can do work in more places and bring in more connectivity into BambooHR. And the 3rd pillar here is empower people with data. This is something that will help you be more strategic in the work that you do. We wanna bring more insights into your work and helping you understand your people and helping you make critical decisions at your organization. So we're gonna talk about each one of these different pillars and talk about the updates that we're planning for next year as it relates to each one of these pillars. And before we do that, I wanna say that these are just the highlights. These are just some of the the big things we wanna share, but we're doing a lot more than what I'm about to share. And in addition to that, we're still having strategy conversations on additional value that we're gonna provide. So this is not a comprehensive list and there's gonna be more coming in the future as we share more and more updates as things become solidified for 2025. So let's start with everything works together. There's 3 massive additions that we wanna provide here. The first being compensation planning. This would be a brand new solution that would help you in that merit review cycle as you're trying to understand and work through the process of the salary increases or bonuses, maybe equity as well. Compensation planning is gonna be a key tool, each and every year as you go through compensation planning. Really excited about planning, providing that one. This is a really big one. The second is ATS enhancements. So Camilla, at the beginning, talked about already some of those great enhancements we made this year. We're gonna be adding more into the ATS to help you hire even faster. Things like scheduling and scorecards to help ensure your ATS, is is best, supporting you in your hiring efforts. And the last one here is more AI automation. So we launched Ask Fanboy HR just a few weeks ago. We're gonna be making that even more robust and providing even more functionality to ask BambooHR so that you can ask more questions and gain even more insights about your workforce. But we're also looking for more ways to add AI throughout BambooHR. That's gonna be a key focus for 2025. So those are the things that everything works together. Now let's move on to flexible and extensible. And as you can see here, we're really investing in ways that you can connect your your system of record, BambooHR, with even more business outcomes. And one of the ways that we're doing that is we're ensuring that we we build out our our marketplace integrations by being very intentional with the key integrations that you need in order to get your work done. And the second is going with deep partnerships. This is one that we're all very excited about. We're gonna have partnerships that allow for a richer experience between BambooHR and other tools, Things that help make things effortless in the work that you're doing. Now I wish I could share the partnerships that we're thinking about and planning, but a lot of those are in strategic conversations now, and others were in negotiations with some of these partners. So more to share coming into the new year as some of these partnerships, come to fruition. And the last pillar I wanna talk about is empower people with data. And we're excited about the 3 additions that we're thinking about in 2025 and that we're planning to do. The first is compensation benchmarking. You would have heard about this in customer day if you if you attended customer day. We talked about it there, we demoed it there, and this is something that's actually being tested right now in beta with with some of you, some existing customers. And we're excited about the value this brings as you're able to then benchmark your own compensation against industry averages or different company sizes to ensure that you're meeting the expectations of the market and you're being competitive, in the market as well. And that is a theme as you can see with report benchmarking is we wanna make sure that you can benchmark some of the key reports so that you have the the information you need to understand where you stand currently in the market. We already have the turnover benchmarking report. We talked about a customer day about our EMPS age and gender reports that we'll be benchmarking. That's in beta right now, and then we plan to even add more benchmarking throughout 2025. The last one here is advanced analytics. We wanna provide more ways for you to extract goodness out of Banvo HR to help you even be more strategic in your decision making. So we're looking at different tools and dashboards to help you make, advanced decisions, with the analytics that are provided to you. So really excited about all of this in the empower people with data pillar, and really about all the updates that we're planning for 2025. I hope this makes you excited to be part of of BambooHR and excited about the future of what it's gonna provide to your organizations. So wanna jump into another poll here. We've shared a lot today, and as I mentioned, there's that 2024 product updates recap that'll help you understand what's in what package or what you have access to. So but for some of you, you may be interested in learning more about some of these updates or some of our new plans. And so jump into the poll tab and let us know, do you want a personalized demo of our core and pro plan where we shared some of these exciting new updates? Do you want a demo of payroll benefits or time tracking, which are add ons to your existing package? Go go ahead and let us know in the poll, and then we'll have somebody reach out that can share more information about these tools so that you can make even more of an impact at your at your company. And with that, we'll move on to the q and a section. We're gonna have Austin, sort of emcee this section here and guide us with some of the questions. So he's gonna pull up some of the key questions here and and have some people come and answer them. So go ahead, Austin. Yeah. Let's do it. We have a a bunch of people in the background answering questions. We'll probably pull up a few of those questions that were already answered that are bigger. But we'll also go through some of these unanswered ones that have all the up votes. There's a ton of questions to get through, so we're gonna do our best to ask to answer as many as we can live. And those that we may not be able to answer live, we'll look into after the fact. We'll download them. And if we can get a response, we'll do that for you as as fast as we can. So the first question I have is for, I think for you, Panu. It's about, benefits administration working with employee navigator. Not sure if you have a response for that. Yeah. We have, integrations with a couple of, other, benefits administration products. You can check those out on on our BambooHR Marketplace. But right now, employee navigator is not one of the, partners that we integrate with. Thank you. The next one is actually for you again, Panu. It's asking about improvements to the timekeeping capabilities. I don't know if how much insight you have into what's coming for for time tracking. There's also a few questions about geolocation within time tracking. So maybe that's a 2 part question. What are we doing with time tracking in the near future? I know we can't say everything we're doing in 2025, but near future and and what about geolocating? Is that something we do or no? Yeah. Geolocation, is a question that has come up in the past as or geofencing has come up in the past. That's not a feature that we offer. We have geolocation that allows you to view where your employees are, when they're logging in and out to keep them accountable for their time sheets. In terms of, what's coming up for time tracking around the corner in 2025, Austin, I just wanna give a quick plug again that we are working currently on, a tablet app for, time clock functionality, and that's going to be released early next year, and that's going to be the next big thing for time tracking. Awesome. Thank you. Alright. Let's, let's keep going through these questions. We'll try and hit them all. Are we going to have the ability I don't know if, Camilla, you can answer this one. This is, this one says, are we going to have the ability to have multiple managers assigned to 1 employee, allowing multiple managers to provide sorry. I lost the question. Oh, it disappeared on me. Yeah. Does anybody know the answer to that that's on here? Given the ability to, assign multiple managers to a single employee. Sorry. Can you repeat the question? I think you didn't say it. Yeah. Sorry about that. And I lost the question halfway through, so I'll try and remember it. Is there gonna be the ability to add multiple managers to a single employee within Vambor HR? You may not know the answer to that. If not, we can always take that back to our product managers. Yeah. I probably need to take it back to the product manager, but my understanding is that for now, that's not something that's right now in the pipeline for ATS. Awesome. But we need to Yep. Got it. Awesome. Thank you. Let's see. Will the new benchmarking tools coming in 25 be US or also Canadian data? This is a question for you, Nick. Nick, are you there? There we go. Yes. I am. Sorry about that. Okay. Could could you repeat that one more time? Will the new benchmarking tools coming in 2025 be US or or also Canadian data? Will it just be limited to the US and but or will it include international like Canadian Canada? When we're talking about the the benchmarking tools, it's there's, there's some distinction there. The compensation benchmarking specifically, yes, the plan is to have, both US and Canadian data and also to continue to expand out our compensation data, to from different sources around the world so that, you know, all of our international customers can also have that. But yes, early in our roadmap, we're talking about US and Canadian data to start with. When we talk about some of the other benchmarking tools, since I've already got the stage, I'd love to talk it up a little bit. That data will actually be both US, Canadian, Canada, Canada, and international, when we talk about benchmarking on some of our HR reports, for example. So compensation benchmarking, yes, US and Canada, with a further road map to expand out. And then HR benchmarks, that will be international, as right as they release, which will be, in the the first half of next year. Awesome. So those we're looking at those updates for h one, the first half of the year, 2025. That's right. Alright. Let's see what else we have here. There's a few few more benefits administration questions, Panu. I'm gonna pass your way. Is the age banded voluntary life enhancement available? They don't see it in their benefits administration settings. Yes. So that's, a release that, came out in October, and I've shared a a release note in that. A release note of that in the chat. So that's something that, you can find more information on in the help center. Awesome. So it sounds like in the chat, if you go there, you can find the, the link from Panu or if you go to bamboychr.com and go to product updates, sorted on benefits administration, you should be able to find it there as well or in the help center. Awesome. There's one more question for benefits administration I wanted to hit really quick, Panu. Is the, keeps moving on me. Sorry. Is the is the is it on the road map for better benefits view for the employee side? It is a bit confusing for the employees to decipher between their current benefits and future benefits after open enrollment. So, Dwight, can you tell us about the employee side of benefits administration? Yeah. So what we have right now is, for every employee, including yourselves, you can go into the, my info tab and your benefits tab. And and right there, you can see your current benefit elections and expand that and see all the details, and that will be updated for your new benefits after they go into effect with your new plan here. So there's not a place for an employee to go and review their, future elections right now for the upcoming plan year. Alright. Thank you, Panu. Excuse me. There's a question about access levels here. Hopefully, somebody can help us with that that's on the call. They say, I'm the only HR person in the company. Oh, my goodness. Sorry. This chat keeps moving on me as I'm trying to read it. So, here we go. I'm the only HR person in the company. I would like to give access level or for including new product and task without being able to see confidential info like salaries. Is there a way to create those kind of access levels? So it sounds like they're wondering, can I build custom access levels that hide certain things within the product? Not sure if there's somebody on the line that could help us with the access levels. Anybody here? Or is that a question we need to take back to our product team that's over kind of security? Right. Sounds like that's a deep cut question. We'll take that, and we'll get your response, after this after this rolls out. Sorry, we couldn't answer right here on the spot. Kenny, I don't know if you had an answer for that or not. On that one specifically, but that's one we could take back and we can reach out to that customer and and answer that question for them. So Awesome. Thank you. Alright. Let's see. I'm going through all the unanswered ones right now. Do we have any plan? Go ahead. Yeah. I think, I think we're coming close-up on time here. So let's, let's make this, the last question that that we have, and then we'll we'll go ahead and end the webinar. We we wish we could answer all the questions that we have in here, but we'll, we'll try to reach out individually and answer some of these questions that you might have. Alright. Let's see. Just looking through the chats to see which ones we can answer here. We had a question about paper checks, printing paper checks for payroll. I can go ahead and answer that. Right now, we do have some partners that you can, work with for paper checks, but we only at BambooHR Payroll do direct deposits at this time. I don't see that change in the near future. We are focused more on on the direct deposit, avenue, but you can, within our software, download, a template for printing out the checks and print out those checks on your own paper stock and and hand them out to your employees or mail them to your employees as as needed. So that is something that you can download right within BambooHR and send out. We just don't fulfill them on your behalf. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you, Austin, for leading out our q, q and a. Thank you all so much for being here today with us. We hope you're excited about what's to come and all of the amazing updates that our product team has been working so hard, to fulfill for you guys. Continue to give us feedback. We love that feedback. I'll send that product feedback form, one more time in the chat. And if you're interested, if there's something that you don't currently have access to that you're interested in upgrading to Core or Pro for, you can click that upgrade my account button at the top, or you can go over to the poll and you can, select core pro plan. And there you can have someone reach out and, give you personalized pricing. Thank you again so much. Tomorrow, you'll receive a recording of the webinar. You can also use the same link that you used to join, and we'll send out the slides as well. So have a great Thursday, and thanks again for for coming.