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Hellgren G.

Senior HR Systems & Digital Transformation Consultant

Human Resources

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/2/2026

"Streamlined HR Processes with Room for Improvement in Compliance"

4/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

As an HR systems consultant supporting German SMEs, the self-service portal is Breathe’s biggest strength. Employees independently handle holiday requests, update personal details and pull their own digital personnel files, slashing repetitive routine tickets for client HR teams. The unified document archive logs every view and edit action automatically, producing clear audit trails that hold up during DSGVO inspections. Its raw CSV outputs are neatly structured too, which trims down data cleaning time ahead of payroll handovers to accountants using DATEV. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

There are zero pre-built templates tailored to German employment law, plus no native connection to DATEV LODAS or Lohn und Gehalt. I have to manually build every custom field for social security identifiers, tax classes and working hour regulations from scratch for each client. The exported CSV layout never lines up with DATEV’s required import schema, so monthly payroll prep always involves tedious column reordering and value remapping. There’s also no automated reminder function for DSGVO retention deadlines, leaving us reliant on external spreadsheets to flag records due for archiving or secure deletion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Breathe solving and how is that benefiting you?

Most of our clients previously managed staff data across unlinked Excel files and unsecured shared drives, leading to fragmented records and inconsistent leave tracking. Breathe consolidates all personnel information, absence workflows and official documents into one secure cloud environment. Self-service functionality cuts low-value HR admin overhead, standardises how employee data is categorised to align with DSGVO rules, and supplies consistent export datasets that simplify pre-payroll data preparation before handoff to tax advisors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.