Pause Reviews & Product Details

Pause is a paperless leave management tool that ensures teams are up-to-date on teammates' time-off schedules, making planning easier. Pause works where teams do (desktop, mobile, Slack, and Google Calendar). Take advantage of intuitive features: - simple application processes transparent leave policies - instant leave updates - daily leave notifications - Slack and Google Calendar integrations, and more. Pause makes capacity planning and team communication easier than ever before, all for the cost of a coffee.

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Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

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Manaal O.

Design researcher and UX writer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/9/2021

"Easy to use leave management tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Pause?

Pause makes managing and staying up to date with time off from work easy and transparent. I like the way the Pause bot sounds, they are pretty chill and laid back.

Pause makes it super simple to apply for time off, see how much time off I have taken and how many days I have left, and also to know when my colleagues are OOO. 10/10 would recommend, it's an easy integration into your Slack workspace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

There have been no downsides to using Pause. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Simplifying the time off process lets me plan efficiently and removes unnecessary back and forth with my colleagues and manager about leave. It makes me less anxious to take or apply for leave, and also means that I don't feel obliged to over-explain why I want to take time off.

Since we can all see when people are on leave, this helps in not reaching out to people when they're off, who may feel inclined to reply even though they're technically not working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Team Pause of Pause

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Hi Manaal, thank you for your detailed review! We're pleased that Pause has helped you free yourself from the anxiety and obligations that usually come with taking time off. 🙌

Srushti S.

Marketing and Company Structure Head

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/2/2021

"A solution all HR and People Management Admins should have!"

4/5

What do you like best about Pause?

One upside of pause is that it's easy to use! As someone who isn't as technologically fluent as others, pause has been an easy interface to deal with and has made my user experience wonderful. People management has been incredible as it allows me to use its various brilliant features such as daily calendar updates to slack, team calendars and much more. This not only keeps our internal team informed but also communicate the same with our clients and shareholders with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

There isn't much to dislike about the product. I do feel it is a brilliant yet simple solution for a day to day business problem. However, having said that I would suggest that a few features be improved upon or added on. For example, a feature that enables daily updates on when team members are on vacation. Maybe a sort of notification service that allows teams to be well aware (say 1-2 days earlier) about a team member's vacation. Also, an update when someone takes a half-day off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One of the biggest issues Pause has helped us solve is employee burnout. We are a small organisation of 10-15 people and employee vacation days were not being availed by many within the organisation, which led to a lot of burnouts. With the help of Pause, we were able to effectively track and encourage not just deductible and paid leaves but also non-deductibles leaves such as burnout leaves and mental health leaves. It also solved the ease of applying for a leave. No more excessive forms or applications to fill or complicated leave procedures to follow. Helped by automating all aspects of our leave policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Team Pause of Pause

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Hi Srushti, thank you so much for your review — we're glad to hear that Pause has been easy to use so far, and happy that it's been helping you with people management.

If I understood your feedback about the 1-2 day advance notification service correctly, the "weekly summary" notification on Slack might be what you're looking for. Also, you now get an immediate notification when someone takes half a day off on the same day, even if the morning notifications have gone out already.

If you need help setting this up, please let us know through the chat on the Pause web app. Cheers!

Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/19/2021

"Pause - A Perfect Leave management software"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Pause?

We may easily apply for a leave in Pause. It is simple to keep track of an employee's vacation time. We could observe leaves divided into three categories: casual leaves, earned leaves, and sick leaves. We may control the teams and approve or deny an employee's leave. It features a slack integration, so we could simply apply for leave while on the go through slack. An employee's leaves could be seen by day and month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

It should be integrated with Whatsapp to make applying for a leave easier. It should also be less expensive for small businesses, such as startups. There should be an option to download an employee's leaves for a year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Malav D.

Full stack developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/28/2021

"Slick and minimal UI with exact focus on purpose of the product"

4/5

What do you like best about Pause?

Smooth integration with Slack bot. Every morning at least, I know that who is there and who is not there. Minimal UI and UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

On slack, there should be a more motivating message as a notification. One notification we got was 'There is no holiday in this week' or something like that, which is informative, but I don't know if it's motivating or demotivating. We have not used many features, if there are any. As I have used only to apply leave twice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Asmita P.

HR Generalist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/23/2021

"Pause is very easy to use. We love using it here at Slice."

5/5

What do you like best about Pause?

Pause is good. I think we will have a hard time in case we do not have it. We mostly just use the Slack integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

Doesn't integrate with Payroll. I think they have a workaround for it, but for a company like ours, we definitely need payroll integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav C.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/2/2021

"Simplified process of leave approval. Easy to use slack plugin."

4/5

What do you like best about Pause?

I love the slack plugin. The calendar is also lovely, showing all those on leave. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

mobile version on my iphone-XR has broken UI(/). can share screenshots if needed. also found the dashboard is not optimized for mobile view. I'm thinking that is a choice. could be a simplistic version like slack plugin [apply/check status]. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2021

"Best option for a lean globally distributed start-up - Dhruv has an amazing team!"

5/5

What do you like best about Pause?

Pause is a very simple to operate (which is a bonus for us) and integrated with Slack, Google etc which is everything we need. Given we operate across multiple jurisdictions etc., we needed something that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

There's a few features that I would love and I think if was built out would make this amazing but the team are great and responsive at getting back to us with workarounds if their pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We just wanted to get off manual spreadsheets with tracking leave from each team-member which was taking a lot of admin time of our team managers - this is great and the dashboard view where you can see who is on leave when (as long as they request off Pause) is really helpful! For instance, this helps with seeing at a 'birds eye view' who is away and then how you can manage public holidays across different jurisdictions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sindhu Shivaprasad of Pause

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Hi, thanks so much for your review — we're glad to know Pause is doing its job well! Always keen to know what features our users would like to see on Pause — please message us through our chat box on getpause.com and we'll take it from there.

Edwin S.

CX Executive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/21/2021

"Awesome tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Pause?

The tool and interface is so simple and seamless. Pause has made my job easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

Nothing yet that I've disliked about the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Pause:

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

Pause has been helping us with marking and applying for day off. Easy to apply for leave or request for a permit when there's a need to step out of office. This tool is much simpler than drafting an email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praveen G.

Chief Operating Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/28/2021

"Pause changed the way we managed leaves in our firm"

5/5

What do you like best about Pause?

It's so easy to use! Just 2-3 clicks and your leave application is sent, and every morning you get to know who is on leave, so you don't need to bother them at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

Honestly, not much. The only thing I can think of is that there's a confirmation step when you apply for a leave which probably isn't needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sindhu Shivaprasad of Pause

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Hi Praveen, thank you for your review! We'll let our product team know about your feedback on the confirmation step. If there's anything else, please know you can always reach out to us through the chat box on getpause.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/28/2021

"A product with very high potential"

5/5

What do you like best about Pause?

Easy of applying for leaves. Checking leaves of other teammates. The slack notification about leaves is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Pause?

There should be a feature to check public holiday calendar of the company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.