Introduction
In today’s dynamic world, people work globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Managing employees has become increasingly complex with a more dispersed workforce, fewer face-to-face meetings, and the disappearance of many activities and gathering places that helped build and foster company culture.
In this environment, the HR team is critical to an organization’s success. A Human Resources Information System (HRIS) helps automate many administrative people processes. Still, not all solutions can help HR teams develop their people or drive the culture and engagement that helps companies succeed.
When comparing Hibob to Rippling, ask yourself these five questions to discover which HRIS best fits your business.
1. Can Rippling maximize our employee experience?
The role of HR is no longer about headcount and managing human capital. In today’s business environment, when many companies have part or all of their employees working from home, HR leaders need to create a company culture that engages and retains employees and fosters camaraderie and commitment without water cooler banter or social activities.
bob can do it
The bob HRIS platform was designed to put people first instead of merely tracking or managing human resources. With its social media look and feel, bob is designed to empower employees, connect them to your company culture and maximize their employee experience (EX), whether they work in the corporate office or the home office. Customizable onboarding workflows enable you to welcome new joiners to the company with introductions to key people and bits of corporate culture—even before day one—to help them quickly feel at home and minimize first-day jitters.
bob offers a distinctly user-friendly UI that builds and strengthens company culture and brings people together to create meaningful professional and social relationships. From creating personal social-media style profiles to sharing company news and acknowledging achievements with kudos or shoutouts, bob offers a holistic company view that motivates employees and keeps them feeling good about their company and their work.
2. Can Rippling help grow our global, modern organization?
In the age of COVID-19, business opportunities and talent are often dispersed among multiple corporate offices and home offices worldwide. A good HRIS must help your organization thrive in all of the complexity of today’s business world.
bob can do it
bob was designed as a global platform that supports non-traditional organizational structures that characterize today’s COVID-19 workforce. Supporting in-house and remote teams in multiple countries and tracking multiple holiday calendars and currencies, bob delivers a total view across the business with customizable workflows and fields that let you easily adjust bob to meet local needs and best practices.
Each company site in the bob platform is designed to be part of the whole company entity while offering the flexibility to meet its own unique needs. Individual newsfeeds with local office and country information, relevant key local statistics, and local company news connect the local tribe at the corporate office or home office with the global company culture. Even if your business only has one site today, bob scales as you grow, wherever and however you grow.
3. Can Rippling streamline our core HR processes?
With so many distractions working from home or in half-empty offices, core HR tasks need to be efficient and pain-free to save precious time and minimize employee frustration. Onboarding and time management can be among the most time-consuming and repetitive procedures at many companies. A good HRIS should automate and expedite these core HR tasks to no longer be a source of dread.
bob can do it
bob streamlines core HR processes by automating and simplifying approval cycles with just a click of a web browser or mobile device. An intuitive UI eases arduous tasks as the complicated forms of yesteryear become a faded memory. New team members feel welcome and quickly bond with your company’s culture, values, and people through a streamlined, customizable onboarding process. Flexible views of the company’s people directory help new and veteran team members better connect professionally and personally to others—wherever they are.
Simple HR requests are quickly solved for employees while freeing HR to focus on higher-level tasks. Time and absence management are easily tracked via desktop and mobile, in addition to Microsoft Teams and Slack.
People, teams, and tribes will no longer waste time trying to reach an “unresponsive” employee who is taking personal time off. Optional surveys let you closely monitor employee sentiment changes while HR KPIs and talent analytics allow you to improve HR performance and maximize employee experience continuously.
4. Can Rippling solve our unique business needs at scale?
No two businesses are alike, and your unique culture will help define the challenges you’ll face as a company. While not all HRIS platforms are equally flexible, a good HRIS will offer the flexibility to help you overcome sudden changes and scale the company over time.
bob can do it
The bob HR platform is exceptionally flexible and is customizable according to your business’ specific needs—with minimal assistance from tech support or professional services. bob’s ability to handle non-hierarchical organizational structures such as “tribes” makes it easy to manage your people as you grow from a startup to a global enterprise.
Customizable processes, site settings, time-off policies, and workflows allow companies to scale and quickly change their operations as needed. As a global tool, bob adapts to support local cultures, including national and religious holidays and workplace customs, such as sharing shoutouts or personal announcements—or not. In short, bob delivers what you need, where you need it, and how you need it.
5. Does Rippling increase productivity and ease collaboration?
The seismic changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic have made 2020 the most dynamic year of the 21st century. Companies of all sizes are more distributed than ever, with many or all employees working at home on a temporary or permanent basis. A good HRIS needs to help companies overcome disconnected tribes that affect company culture, make people feel isolated, and hinder productivity and collaboration.
bob can do it
Our integrations with leading third-party applications let you continue working the way you prefer while leveraging ‘bob’s expertise in maximizing employee experience. bob partners with more than a dozen collaboration systems, connects to thousands of applications through Zapier, and lets you quickly develop custom workflows with our open API.
Native integrations with applicant tracking systems like Greenhouse, Workable, and Lever streamline your recruit-to-hire process. At the same time, our connectivity to leading platforms such as G-Suite, Microsoft Azure, Jira, Slack, and Microsoft Teams lets you continue to use the tools you like.
Why you should choose Hibob over Rippling
When comparing bob to Rippling, it’s clear that bob is the right choice for dynamic and growing companies. Not just because bob excels in culture tools and connecting employees throughout the world to their global companies, but because bob was designed first and foremost to create a great employee experience—whereever you are.
bob puts people first with culture tools that connect in-house and remote employees. Its unique and innovative UI has a distinctly non-technical, fun social media feel. This makes bob more enjoyable and intuitive to use compared to Rippling and other HRIS solutions. It creates a welcoming environment that inspires people to build great working relationships and keeps them connected to the company, whether they work in a corporate office or a home office. And unlike other systems, bob’s implementation and daily usage are very intuitive and don’t require hard-coding or technical knowledge.
Hibob recognizes that some of the most painful company processes for employees can be related to HR tasks. bob’s UI, automated processes, and integration with leading third-party tools ease administrative tasks for everyone across the organization and make even the most mundane work tasks pleasant, intuitive, and engaging–and not just for HR admins.
Once you ask the right questions, you’ll discover why more and more companies choose Hibob over Rippling.
Now is the time to make smarter decisions when it comes to your people and organization.
