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Breathe makes your HR admin a breeze

With a focus on simplicity, Breathe gives you everything you need to streamline your HR processes.
Holidays
Cloud storage
Payroll
Absences
Expenses
Appraisals
Recruitment
HR Reports
Save time on holiday management
Breathe makes requesting and managing holiday requests effortless for both employees and businesses, providing a simple overview of who's off and when.
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Access HR documents anywhere
Share and store important documents safely in the cloud. All sensitive data stored in Breathe is encrypted to the highest security standards, and because it’s online it’s kept safe from natural disasters or theft.
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Payroll data at your fingertips
Export payroll-ready data and upload it to your payroll system in moments. You can also download entire reports, with all employee changes included, or only download the changes made to employee information.
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Keep track of absences
Breathe’s easy-to-use online sickness and absence management software gives you the power to better understand your absence record, identify absence problems, and set about resolving them.
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Speedy and secure expenses
Expense management is easy with Breathe. Input claims, upload receipts, and submit for approval - all in a matter of minutes. Approve and track claims, and instantly view expenses history and any outstanding payments.
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Reward your people for their work
Breathe helps you easily track employee performance, arrange one-to-ones, manage appraisals and set goals or targets for staff to strive for.
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Own your recruitment process
With Breathe, each step of the recruitment process happens in one place, making it easy to create, share and track unlimited vacancies, assign applicants to recruiters, and much more.
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Get data-driven insights
Our HR reporting tool empowers you to make smarter decisions and take control of your HR admin. Running reports on sickness, finance, time logs, and more couldn’t be easier. Exporting reports is as easy as clicking a button.
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Get data-driven insights
Our HR reporting tool empowers you to make smarter decisions and take control of your HR admin. Running reports on sickness, finance, time logs, and more couldn’t be easier. Exporting reports is as easy as clicking a button.
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*Based on average HR salary for a 20-50 person company. More information here

LEAVE AND ABSENCE

Make leave admin a breeze

Breathe’s holiday management features provide a simple overview of employee leave as well as company-wide calendar view. Instantly respond to holiday requests and give your team visibility of their allowance & days remaining.

Absence management tools help you better understand your absence record, identify absence problems, and set about resolving them.

440%

approximate ROI for SMEs

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**Based on real customer surveys. More information here.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

Empower your people

Manage employee performance, arrange one-to-ones, manage annual appraisal meetings and set goals or targets for your team.

Breathe’s employee onboarding software is designed to support small businesses by streamlining and automating the entire process.

Breathe’s People Portal app makes it super easy to view and request leave, log sickness and give kudos, on the go, from any device.

16 hours

saved on HR admin per month**

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FILE STORAGE AND ANALYTICS

All your data, in one place

Breathe offers unlimited online document storage. All personal data is stored to the highest GDPR-compliant security standards.

Make sense of your HR information and ensure the actions you take are data-driven with Breathe’s extensive reporting tools.

All payroll data is available at your fingertips. Breathe lets you export payroll-ready data and upload it to your payroll system in seconds.

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ISO certified

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“I am amazed how much time is saved using Breathe

We had very time consuming annual leave forms and they have now been replaced with Breathe. It is so straightforward and easy to use. It has also been very easy to implement.”

Gemma Dickson, G2 review
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MODERN HR MANAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE

Designed to fit into your workflow

Using the Breathe API will ensure all your employee data is kept up to date, saving you the headache of logging into multiple applications.

Breathe has partnered with a variety of apps and integrations including Xero Payroll, Hireful ATS and Microsoft Outlook, all available in the Breathe Marketplace.

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OPTIONAL ADD-ONS

Give your HR a powerful boost

Breathe Recruitment add-on makes it easy to create and share unlimited vacancies, assign applicants to recruiters, and more.

Build and share team rotas as well as manage timesheets instantly with Breathe Rota, Time and Attendance add-on.

Breathe Learn add-on offers engaging training courses designed to build on your people's soft-skills.

Input and track claims, upload receipts, and submit for approval at at touch of a button with Breathe Expenses add-on.

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“Breathe has revolutionised our business

It is simple to use, it's intuitive, and makes life so much easier for managers, providing us with a single digital location in which to manage our people.”

Kerry Parry, G2 review
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Useful resources to get started

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Free guide

A guide to HR Software for SMEs

But what is HR software? How much does it cost? What should you look for? And how long does it take to set up? 

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Calculate the ROI of Breathe HR Software

Discover how much Breathe could save you with our free calculator.

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What is HR software?

HR software streamlines all necessary HR functions for human capital management (HCM). Also known as Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS) or Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS), HR software provides a powerful solution for everyday HR processes and strategic planning.

Frequently asked questions

  • What is a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and what is it used for?

  • How does the 14-day free trial work?

  • Do I get access to everything during my trial?

  • What should I consider when looking for a HRIS?

  • How will Breathe help my business?

  • How is Breathe designed with SMEs in mind?

  • How secure is my data in Breathe?

  • Why do you need HR software?

  • What features are included in Breathe?

  • What will my return on investment look like?

  • Wait, my question hasn’t been answered!

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