More from the Breathe you already know

The HR side of your business is getting broader. Breathe is growing with it, so rotas, performance, employee questions and payroll can run from the same employee record you already keep.

More capability for your team. Still brilliantly simple to use.

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HR is evolving. So are we.

Breathe is evolving to help you manage more of that work from one place, so your team can spend less time moving information around and more time acting on it, without needing a new system to learn.

Dive deeper in Breathe’s Product Showcase, Breathe Presents: HR Made Brilliantly Simple, to explore where HR is heading, what’s new in Breathe now and what’s coming next. 

 

The brilliantly simple HR platform

Every business finds its stride in a different place. Rotas that fall into place, payday finished in minutes and performance conversations that happen on time. 

Breathe is evolving around this. A brand new Rota, a simpler way to manage performance, an AI Assistant to take the everyday questions off your desk, and payroll on its way. There’s also plenty more to Breathe already live which you may want to explore, scroll to continue exploring Breathe. 

Breathe product wheel with Core HR at the centre, surrounded by seven add-ons: Performance, Rota, Health and Safety, Expenses, Payroll, Recruitment and Learn.

What's new and evolving in Breathe

Core HR

The heart of everyday HR

A stronger everyday foundation: employee information, documents, leave, absence and everyday HR processes, all in one place the whole business can use. It's also the foundation the rest of Breathe is built on. Rotas, performance, health and safety and pay all start from the same employee record, so nothing needs setting up twice.

Brilliantly simple HR, built for the whole business to use.

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The foundation for connected HR

Core HR is the central source of truth for the people side of your business. Breathe brings employee information, documents, leave, sickness and everyday HR processes together, then gives every other module the trusted people data it needs to work from. HR stays in control while managers and employees can do more for themselves.

Features and benefits

  • Keep one accurate, secure and searchable employee record at the centre of HR, rotas, performance, health and safety and pay.
  • Give employees a clear view of their leave, absence and important HR information.
  • Make requests and approvals easier with self-service tools for employees and managers.
  • Keep company policies and documents visible, with read requirements and reminders when needed.
  • Use reports and dashboards to spot what needs attention without starting from scratch.
NEW - Performance

Performance management that drives momentum, not paperwork

Goals, feedback and performance conversations can turn into a heavyweight process or an annual scramble. Make it part of everyday work, without turning performance management into another thing to manage. 

Brilliantly simple performance, built for better conversations all year round.

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Performance management that keeps people moving forward

Make goals, progress and better conversations part of everyday work. Breathe helps managers and employees stay aligned, understand what’s expected and keep performance moving. Regular feedback and simple touchpoints help you understand how people are feeling, without adding another heavyweight process.

Features and benefits

  • Set clear objectives and keep progress visible between reviews.
  • Record one-to-ones, actions and follow-ups, so important conversations don’t get lost.
  • Break objectives into clear steps, so everyone knows what needs to happen next.
  • Use regular feedback, quick polls and deeper surveys to understand how people are feeling and spot where support is needed.
  • Create a shared view of expectations, progress and feedback, helping managers have more consistent and useful conversations.
  • Keep performance information and employee insight alongside your HR records, so it’s easier to take action.
Coming soon - Rota

Shifts change. Scheduling stays simple.

Shifts change, availability moves, and the rota turns into a spreadsheet headache no one wants. Set up, change and communicate rotas easily with Breathe. 

Brilliantly simple rota scheduling, built for busy teams, powered by your people data.

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Shifts change. Scheduling stays simple.

Create accurate rotas from the people data you already have in Breathe. The new Rota experience gives managers a simpler way to plan shifts across locations and roles, copy patterns forward and keep employees informed,  without rebuilding the same information in spreadsheets.

Features and benefits

  • Start with employee information, locations, roles and contracted hours already held in Core HR, so your rota begins with the right people data and stays connected as things change.
  • Get set up without a complex account tree, with a guided path to your first published rota within 30 minutes.
  • Build rotas with drag-and-drop scheduling, multi-week patterns and one-click copy forward.
  • See leave and absence information inline, so unavailable employees are clear before shifts are assigned.
  • Publish rotas and notify employees, giving them a clear view of when, where and how they are working.
  • Build with the flexibility to support multiple locations, roles, split shifts and overnight shifts as your business grows.
  • Flag scheduling conflicts and compliance risks earlier, so managers can act before publishing.
Health & Safety

Business safety you can track effortlessly

Health and safety tasks and records are hard to keep organised, visible and up to date until something slips. Breathe gives you a clearer way to complete relevant tasks and keep important records moving, without relying on HR to chase every step. 

Brilliantly simple health and safety, built for staying on top of what matters.

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Keep health and safety tasks, records and follow-up moving from one clear place. Breathe gives your people a simpler way to report, complete and review what matters, without relying on HR to chase every step.

Features and benefits

  • Create, store and review risk assessments in one central location.
  • Make it easier for employees to log incidents, hazards and near misses.
  • Schedule recurring safety tasks and checks so important actions do not get missed.
  • Keep responsibilities, training and certification records visible and up to date.
  • Track emergency roles and key safety information across the business.
  • See the bigger picture through a central health and safety dashboard.
Expenses

Less expense admin. Faster approvals.

Expense claims can turn into a trail of emails, receipts and follow ups that slow everyone down. Breathe gives employees an easier way to submit expenses, managers a clearer way to review and approve them, and HR better visibility without the chasing. 

Brilliantly simple expenses, built for faster claims and simpler approvals.

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Less expense admin. Faster approvals.

Replace the trail of emails, receipts and follow-ups with a clearer way to manage expenses. Breathe gives employees an easier way to submit claims, managers a faster way to approve them and HR better visibility of spend.

Features and benefits

  • Submit expense claims and receipts from one simple workflow.
  • Use the mileage calculator to make claims faster and reduce manual errors.
  • Let AI capture key details from receipts, keeping supporting evidence with the claim.
  • Set spending limits and warnings to help teams stay within policy.
  • Route claims to the right approver automatically.
  • See expense data in one dashboard, including spend against projects or clients.
Coming soon - Payroll

Payday, without the duplication.

Pay is sensitive, and every payday can mean exporting, importing and checking data between systems that don’t talk to each other. Payroll is coming to the place where your people data already lives, creating a simpler, more connected way to manage pay. 

Early access opens in November, join the waitlist now to be the first to try it out. 

Brilliantly simple payroll, built for a smoother payday.

Breathe payroll dashboard showing people paid, monthly gross pay, the next pay run and a payroll costs chart.

Payroll is coming soon to Breathe. Designed to take the friction out of payday, Breathe Payroll will help teams manage routine pay admin with less manual effort, clearer checks and a smoother experience for everyone involved.

Features and benefits

  • Follow a clear, guided process for preparing and running payroll.
  • Automate repetitive payroll tasks, giving teams more time back before payday.
  • Surface potential issues early, so they can be resolved before payroll is completed.
  • Keep pay-run information, checks and records organised in one place.
  • Give employees clearer access to their pay information.
Learn

Make learning part of everyday work and give people more ways to grow.

Scattered e-learning makes progress hard to track. Breathe brings mandatory learning into one simple place, giving employees and managers clarity while giving HR the visibility and records needed to stay compliant. 

Learn also creates space for wider development, helping employees build new skills, stay engaged and grow with the business. 

Brilliantly simple learning, built for compliant, capable and engaged teams.

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Make learning part of everyday work

Give people more ways to build skills while making mandatory training easier to manage. Breathe Learn brings courses, assignments and progress tracking together, so employees know what to do, managers can support development and HR has the records to stay on top of compliance.

Features and benefits

  • Give employees access to a library of 100+ bite-sized courses with built-in assessments.
  • Assign learning by department or role, so the right people get the right training.
  • Build structured learning paths with playlists for different teams and priorities.
  • Track progress, completions and overdue learning in one place.
  • Keep training history, qualifications and certificates easy to find.
  • Support both compliance training and wider development as your people grow.
AI Assistant

Give people answers without every question coming back to HR.

AI Assistant helps employees and managers find useful answers faster, using the information your business has chosen to make available.

It’s the start of a bigger shift: practical AI built into Breathe to reduce searching, answering and repetitive admin as the platform evolves.

Over time, AI will help make more of the work around onboarding, leave, sickness, health and safety and compliance simpler too.

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Less expense admin. Faster approvals.

Replace the trail of emails, receipts and follow-ups with a clearer way to manage expenses. Breathe gives employees an easier way to submit claims, managers a faster way to approve them and HR better visibility of spend.

Features and benefits

  • Submit expense claims and receipts from one simple workflow.
  • Use the mileage calculator to make claims faster and reduce manual errors.
  • Let AI capture key details from receipts, keeping supporting evidence with the claim.
  • Set spending limits and warnings to help teams stay within policy.
  • Route claims to the right approver automatically.
  • See expense data in one dashboard, including spend against projects or clients.

“This will be amazing for employees who are never 100% on their companies policies.” - Chloe Worldling, Lilac HR, Breathe Insider

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Our partner network is made up of HR consultants and advisers who know Breathe and know small businesses. They can help you get set up, get more from the platform, or take on the HR work you'd rather not handle yourself.

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