DreamTeam vs. Breathe

Choose from our array of pre-designed templates or easily craft one from scratch to suit your specific needs. Our templates are fully customizable, allowing you to select the exact data you require. Use this information to transform your role from merely a recruiter to an essential strategic partner within the business. Effectively demonstrate HR’s role in achieving organizational goals through clear and impactful KPI visualizations. Eliminate the hours spent on laborious manual reporting by consolidating the insights you typically share into a user-friendly dashboard that can be distributed to key stakeholders. These insights will consistently align with ATS data, meaning you won’t need to provide updates repeatedly. Instead of waiting for scheduled meetings to make decisions, leverage shareable live dashboards to encourage continuous collaboration among all recruitment stakeholders, such as hiring managers and team leaders. By adopting this forward-thinking strategy, you will not only enhance efficiency but also significantly improve your team’s overall effectiveness, paving the way for better decision-making and stronger outcomes. This approach positions HR as an indispensable component of the business landscape.

If your employee details are spread across spreadsheets, emails and disconnected apps, Breathe brings them together. It's a UK HR platform launched in 2012 for small and medium-sized businesses. More than 17,000 of them use it, along with over 1,000 UK HR consultancies. Three everyday HR problems Breathe fixes Information everywhere: one central, accurate record for every employee. Endless chasing: staff book leave, sign documents electronically and follow shared workflows. A small HR team: start with the essentials and add more as you grow. The essentials: Core HR Store records and documents securely, manage holiday and leave, track sickness and absence, and let staff update their own details. Collect e-signatures, set goals, run one-to-ones and reviews, and spot trends with built-in reports. Optional extras Rota, Time and Attendance: plan shifts and track hours Expenses: claims, receipts and manager sign-off Recruitment: advertise roles and follow each candidate Health and Safety: risk assessments, incidents and compliance evidence e-Learning: assign UK-specific courses and see who's completed what Breathe is also building an AI Assistant to answer HR and policy questions, and plans to launch payroll in late 2026. Who gets the most from it UK organisations with up to 200 people, particularly charities, schools, healthcare, retail, start-ups and professional services firms with lean HR. If you need multinational payroll, global compliance or enterprise workforce planning, weigh it up first. Pricing, support and security Plans start from £24 a month for your whole organisation, with no long-term contracts or hidden fees. Try it free for 14 days, with UK-based support from setup onwards. Breathe holds ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 accreditation and keeps your data in UK data centres, protected by encryption and access controls.