There are key differences in functionality between the HR permission and the HR advisor permissions that can be assigned to the people in your Breathe account.

In this article, we break down how they vary so you can best decide on how you assign these to your people.

HR users have access to all employee information such as holiday, sickness and personal information.

On the smaller plans (Micro & Starter), HR users have full access to all employee information, including salary information. They can access everything the admin can, except cancel plan, purge employee data, API Key, and change holiday year.

On all higher plans (Regular and above), HR and Finance permissions are separate, and each user will have distinct roles and responsibilities within the system. When this distinction is drawn, certain actions that could previously be done by the HR user on the smaller plans will require both HR and Finance access - what we call 'super-user' access. Examples of such actions are the ability to assign Line Managers and change email addresses.

This is a permission that allows you to add an external 3rd party HR Consultant to your account.

You can have one HR Advisor per account and they will not count towards your employee numbers. Like every other user of Breathe, they can only use their email address once.

If your HR Advisor needs to use their email address more than once (eg if they have more than one client using Breathe) we offer a Partner Programme which would allow them access to ‘a hub’ of clients. Click here for more information

Please note: HR Advisors will be excluded from the organisation chart, and reports and they aren't able to be a line manager or holiday approver in Breathe.
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