Breathe vs. HiBob

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Breathe
Score 4.7 out of 10
N/A
Breathe in Horsham provides that their HR software is designed to be used effectively by people with no prior experience of HR from day one, and provides ongoing training and support as part of monthly subscriptions to help customers make the most of their software.
$12
per business
HiBob
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
HiBob is an HR management platform that provides features supporting talent management including onboarding administration and task management, payroll reporting and time tracking, and manager dashboard for tracking employee performance.N/A
Pricing
BreatheHiBob
Editions & Modules
1-10 people
£12 / per month
per business
11-20 people
£24 / per month
per business
21-50 people
£61 / per month
per business
51-100 people
£123 / per month
per business
101 - 250 people
£251 / per month
per business
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BreatheHiBob
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details- Breathe's pricing is based on plan size, not per person. - You can choose to pay monthly or annually depending on your business. Annual pricing includes a 10% discount. - We're proud to offer all UK-registered charities a 50% lifetime discount on all plans. - Additional modules such as Rota, Time & Attendance and Breathe Learn are available to be added to your plan.
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Community Pulse
BreatheHiBob
Features
BreatheHiBob
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Breathe
10.0
1 Ratings
23% above category average
HiBob
8.8
60 Ratings
11% above category average
Employment history10.01 Ratings9.558 Ratings
Job profiles and administration10.01 Ratings9.547 Ratings
Employee demographic data00 Ratings10.058 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings8.257 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings8.860 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings8.651 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings6.827 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Breathe
10.0
1 Ratings
21% above category average
HiBob
8.5
54 Ratings
5% above category average
Approval workflow10.01 Ratings9.054 Ratings
Balance details10.01 Ratings8.052 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment10.01 Ratings8.549 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Breathe
10.0
1 Ratings
21% above category average
HiBob
7.9
59 Ratings
3% below category average
Update personal information10.01 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Employee recognition10.01 Ratings6.645 Ratings
View job history10.01 Ratings8.656 Ratings
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings7.941 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.752 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Breathe
10.0
1 Ratings
23% above category average
HiBob
6.0
50 Ratings
28% below category average
Performance plans10.01 Ratings7.143 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings2.634 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings6.447 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings7.249 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings6.642 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Breathe
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
HiBob
-
Ratings
Notifications and Alerts10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Breathe
-
Ratings
HiBob
7.5
41 Ratings
6% below category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings6.924 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings8.419 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings7.134 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Breathe
-
Ratings
HiBob
7.2
56 Ratings
5% below category average
Report builder00 Ratings9.354 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings6.554 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings5.734 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Breathe
-
Ratings
HiBob
6.7
33 Ratings
18% below category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.427 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings6.931 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings5.825 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings6.731 Ratings
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User Ratings
BreatheHiBob
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(61 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(9 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BreatheHiBob
Likelihood to Recommend
Breathe
I can request and check holiday with ease and see company announcements very quickly
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Hibob
HiBob is the most customizable, scaleable and flexible HR platform on the market today. It is ideal for medium and large organizations with operations across the globe while also being a great option for smaller organizations. The modularization of the platform allows each customer to select the elements that are most suited to their needs, while the base "Core" system has a huge amount of functionality and integration options right out of the box. In my opinion, there is no platform on the market that competes with HiBob's easy to use interface, control abilities and general functionality. All too often these days, systems are built on poor architechture with fancy packaging. HiBob delivers a system that is well built and looks great too!
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Pros
Breathe
  • Manages holiday entitlement
  • Manages TOIL requests
  • Delivers company announcements
  • Holds vital information about me and my role
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Hibob
  • Provides usable data via feedback surveys for managers and operations team to take quick action on.
  • It helps us identify our Talent Groups and connect data to their satisfaction to prevent turnover.
  • Simplifies and syncs every day HR tasks, saving loads of time and effort.
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Cons
Breathe
  • More detail of TOIL requests would be better
  • It would be nice if it linked to Outlook for logging training for staff
  • It would be nice if it could integrate with another H & S software package I use
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Hibob
  • I'd like to be able to have flexibility in org charts so that there are options for matrix, flat. I'd also like a printable version of the org chart AND one where names were hidden so it could be shared with individuals outside the organization.
  • In the Performance Reviews I would love to see a 9-box option including corresponding questions so we could plot individuals in the 9-box matrix.
  • It would be ideal if, before a performance review period, managers were given the opportunity to choose 3-4 people they would want to include in a Peer Review of their employees AND where the system would flag if one person was being asked to do more than 2 Peer Reviews.
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Likelihood to Renew
Breathe
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Hibob
We will without a doubt be continuing to use Hibob, it is convenient, being engaged with and great value for money. A one stop shop for all things HR related to keep policies and safe financial information has been so beneficial to the business meaning less risk to GDPR breaches and somewhere for employees to refer back to in future has been invaluable
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Usability
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
It's a solid HRIS system, it's user friendly to employees and employers, but they've changed the user interface 2 times now in the last 2.5 years, so having to find where certain things are after the change can be tedious
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Reliability and Availability
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
Yes they are always there when we need them. Fast response time too.
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Performance
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
Yes the system is fast and easy to use.
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Support Rating
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
A lot of support is self-service from the users themselves, via a guide hosted on HiBob's website. I have found the guide helpful 10% of the time when I needed support. The support team is quite quick to reply, but not everyone is helpful unfortunately, and in many cases a lot of emails, messages and back and forth were needed to get to the bottom of an issue. When I pointed out that a video call would be a quicker way to tell people "this is how it's done", I was told that it's not the way they deliver support. I had to beg our account managers for a video chat with some skilled users to show me how to do certain things that (a) were nowhere to be found on the guide, and (b) the support team wasn't able to solve. Additionally, to find solutions, I was pointed to a forum where other users exchange tips on how they managed to solve problems - again, not really helpful as I would like to know this from Bob's team themselves since we're paying for the product, and I shouldn't rely on other users to tell me how they managed their way around a problem
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Online Training
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
It was fast and easy to learn with the trainer. Their staff was great to work with.
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Implementation Rating
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
I really enjoyed the implementation being involved in a key piece of change management int he business was really exciting
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Alternatives Considered
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
Hibob was ultimately more flexible and offered a strong customer support network which is why we selected it over others. It's also well-priced and while not "cheap", it was more inexpensive than other larger systems. Their sales team was so supportive the entire time and as we went into the implementation phase (which only took us 12 weeks for 1,000 employees!), it was clear that the support continued. Our implementation specialist was so incredibly helpful and while we worked at our own pace, we were still able to roll it out in 3 months. Having worked on a Workday Implementation before, I was blown away by how quickly we got this done. It's also great that as we are using the product, we can continuously make adjustments on our own and tweak it as the business changes. Workday is so complicated that it required a full-time team to work on it. It's just two of us overseeing the system and we are able to run things smoothly on our own! Of course, it's great having the support of our Account Manager when we get stuck.
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Scalability
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
It is easy to use across the board for all departments in the company.
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Return on Investment
Breathe
No answers on this topic
Hibob
  • We were paying a third-party HR organization ~100K per year and were able to cut this from our budget by turning on the connections between our ATS, Hibob, and our payroll vendors.
  • We are using the integration between CoMeet ATS, and it autogenerates the employee onboarding, creating a seamless experience for the employees. They used to have to reenter their data in 5 separate systems, now, it's all started in CoMeet, and upon hire, the onboarding data is collected in Hibob and distributed into all other connected systems.
  • When changing employment status, the automation manages system access automatically. (But in cases where we need to override the information for special cases, we still have the option without "breaking" the API connections).
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ScreenShots

Breathe Screenshots

Screenshot of the personal dashboard for every user, where users can access any area they might need.Screenshot of an additional dashboard called the HR Dashboard, which is a centralised hub for all HR needs that provides meaningful data. It is also used to automate administrative tasks, gain an overview of what’s coming up & keep on top of HR to-do’s.Screenshot of the a birds-eye view of who’s off and when with the holiday calendar. The Breathe calendar with Office 365 or Google calendar.Screenshot of the holiday dashboard, where teams gain visibility of their holiday allowance and days remaining. Here, teams can book holiday requests from anywhere, from any device, at any time.Screenshot of the performance management features helps recognise and reward people for their hard work. It is also used to track employee performance, arrange one-to-ones, manage annual appraisal meetings, and set goals or targets for staff to strive for.Screenshot of the company's organisation chart, which is visible at a glance.

HiBob Screenshots

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