# Pause Reviews **Vendor:** Obvious Ventures **Category:** [Absence Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/absence-management-software) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 83 ## About Pause 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. ## Pause Reviews ### 1. Very confortable to use and track **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The leave application is very simple. The application and approval process is out of the email box. It give intimation of leaves of teammates too which help to effectively plan the work **What do you dislike about Pause?** using the leave application feature which is very helpful. Would like to see the upcoming features **Recommendations to others considering Pause:** It is an easy use software tool that eases your leave management process. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easiness of leave application. Can do it over slack with integration ### 2. Very helpful and informative feature **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Very helpful and informative feature which lets you know all the details **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing as of now, all the things are streamlined well **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding all the details related to office ### 3. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Ease of use, accessibility, and user experience **What do you dislike about Pause?** not integrated within slack, have to visit the website again and again **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to manage my leaves, the hassle is less ### 4. Very helpful and easy to access **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil K. | Team lead customer success, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Applying leaves through pause which is seemly and very convenient. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing as of now, will have to see if there are not dislikes in future. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hassle free ### 5. Very user friendly and easy to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** It doesn't take much to apply for leaves **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing in particular, everything quite good **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Applying for leaves. Don't have to go through a tedious process for this. ### 6. Pause review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** To check leaves and holidays that can be manages **What do you dislike about Pause?** As of now there is nothing which i did not like **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Applying leaves ### 7. Convenient way of filing leaves **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** I love that I can just access Pause through Slack. Pause makes it easier for us to check our leave balances and file leaves in just a few clicks. It's also awesome that it allows us to see who among our teammates are on leave on any day as well as the upcoming public holidays. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing really, I like everything about Pause. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes leave management easier. It helps me in planning my vacation because I can easily check my leave balances and see if other members of the team are already on break on the days I'm planning to take a leave. ### 8. Wondeful experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Reminders of my colleagues birthdays and upcoming holidays **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing as of now that I can think of which I dislike. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Planning ### 9. Very easy to use and understand **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhiram C. | Lead Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The way the calendar is displayed and shows all the events is great **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing like that, every thing in this website is awesome **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** NA ### 10. Pause is both a simple utility as well as a powerful organizational change tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohin D. | CEO **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Pause deftly plays a double role between simply utility (taking leave and letting your team know) and powerful behavioural change (normalize taking leave, even encourage it). I like its ease of use and sparse functional set. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Very few things right now, given how sharply defined and purpose-driven it is **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making leave taking more frequent, more predictable and less disruptive to the organization and teams ### 11. Good and Easy to apply leave **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajiv Kumar P. | Finance Operations Executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Easy to check Leave balance and apply less than in a minute. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing so far. Everything is fine and smooth. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** No Problems. ### 12. Pretty simple to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Easy understanding and usage. Best part is we can use emojis as well as it is connected with different apps too. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Option to delete a message should be available to all. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy communication with the teams in our organization ### 13. Pause review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** It is a very effortless way to apply for leave and track your colleagues if they are on holiday. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing as such to mention that I would dislike about the pause **Recommendations to others considering Pause:** Yes, I would recommend using pause for personal and official use also **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems? Nah, no problem at all Benefits are there, and I recommend you to use pause and experience yourself! ### 14. easy to apply for leaves and get all other information. slack integration is very good feature **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gopi K. | director of engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** slack integration is really good feature. **What do you dislike about Pause?** even after integrating with slack, asking user to visit pause dash board for more information **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. leave management ### 15. Leaves are easy - thanks to Pause! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Easy to use Quick USer friendly Integratable **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing! Works pretty well. I'm able to use it seamlessly **Recommendations to others considering Pause:** NA **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Counting leaves! ### 16. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** It's very easy and friendly to use, very good application. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing such its everything is good to use. **Recommendations to others considering Pause:** yes i will refer if i have any option **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** we can check all our attendance and leave balance and its very easy to access and we can find our colleague birthday also to wish them. ### 17. Pause has been very convenient to apply for leaves. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Prompt notifications of who is on leave on a particular day help manage the tasks for the day very well. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Not much to dislike, but some people had problems setting up pause. Just because we were so used to seeing the availability of people through pause, sometimes their leaves were not accounted for, which led to mismanagement. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems I can solve - Managing my leaves (and different kinds of leaves), applying for leaves. Benefits - Can keep an account for the leave count in a year and how I'm spending them. ### 18. Its a good forum to track and raise leave requests. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The leave requests and updates provided are the best thing on pause **What do you dislike about Pause?** nothing much. But it can be more advanced to be used for different purposes **Recommendations to others considering Pause:** It's a good platform to intimate and use for leaves **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am yet to use the features provided on pause however it seems very helpful. ### 19. It is good to use and quite interesting.. Very friendly interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Executive Office | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The way it has been designed and liveliness in the app. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing so far.. all good features and really enjoying **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not found any issues so far. ### 20. Best user friendly leave management software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreya S. | Talent Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Easy to use even from the company's internal communication platform, quick support of the team, hassle-free.We moved from manually managing leaves and Pause has been a godsend. Leave tracking and payroll had become a lot easier for us as well as for the team while applying for leaves or tracking their balance. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing, it's perfect. We don't have to do/track anything manually. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Leave management has become a lot easy along with birthday reminders. There is no confusion to the team as well when it comes to their leave balance as it is easily accessible to them as well. ### 21. User friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Easy apply of leave and keeping track of all the holidays are impressive. **What do you dislike about Pause?** After a fixed time approved leaves are not updated there. **Recommendations to others considering Pause:** It keeps all the records of holidays easily. Go for it. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Applying leaves easily and keeping track of it. ### 22. Pause is a good leave application assistant. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samshritha K. | Content Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The structured way it shows available leaves, team members on leave etc. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Didn't come across anything to be disliked **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's quick and easy to apply for leave. It is nice that it informs if a team member is unavailable. **Official Response from Sindhu Shivaprasad:** > Hi Samshritha! We're glad to see that you appreciate the structured information that you see on Pause. We're all about organisation — after all, clarity encourages trust and better team communication. If there's anything we can do that'll help us win that extra 2.5 stars from you, please let us know! You can reach out to us via the chat box on our website, getpause.com. ### 23. Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The way system works easily while we require to apply holiday or something like that **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing like that which I would rate for dislike **Recommendations to others considering Pause:** Go for it it's good to use and access easily **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Leave ### 24. Neat and simple leave management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The clean design and the super tiny learning curve. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing to dislike, really. If anything, I would have liked for it to have a dark theme. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Leave application process can now be non-synchronous. I don't have to find a time to be able to speak with another person, I just have to drop a leave request here, the other person gets notified about it, and they can respond to it whenever. ### 25. Intuitive Leave Management System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Ability to assign different approval managers for individual teams **What do you dislike about Pause?** Better notification system, to notify managers up the chain of leaves that have been granted. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee leave tracking, benfits of adding muktiple categories of leaves. ### 26. good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Exclamatory work done for leaves , birthday **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing to dislike as such in the aap. Good **Recommendations to others considering Pause:** It's a good platform to manage **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps in reminding events. ### 27. Very easy and smart. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Slack integration and leave management **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing as of yet! All seems pretty well **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me to instantly look at the conflicts for leaves applied. approve or decline instantly ### 28. Easy to use and fantastic integration with Slack **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay S. | H, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The ease of use with Slack. Simple to use interface for the admin. Very easy to onboard anyone. Great customer service **What do you dislike about Pause?** Nothing right now. The tool delivers exactly what it promises. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transparency of leaves across teams. Encouraging people to take leaves. ### 29. Easy. Simple. Convenient **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Pause is an easy and convenient app used in my organisation for applying leaves. The app allows users to easily integrate with slack and give a hassle free experience. Ability to view leaves and calenders of my collegues **What do you dislike about Pause?** The integration with google calender not working properly **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage tasks and activities by having a bird eye view of leave schedule of my collegues in the organisation ### 30. Flexible and Easy to use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** Viewing other team member's availability in a particular time period. **What do you dislike about Pause?** I rarely use pause so didnt find anything .. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Applying Leave ### 31. Meenakshi - Pause Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** I can apply for leaves easily and can see who is on leave from the entire organization on our Team's slack. **What do you dislike about Pause?** If I submit leave after 9 am, it doesn't notify anyone. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Initially, we used to apply leaves on email or inform directly on Slack. But now pause helps to organize it better. **Official Response from Sindhu Shivaprasad:** > Hi Meenakshi, thank you so much for your review. We have good news — you now get leave notifications on your preferred Slack channel even if a teammate booked time off after 9AM that day! We hope you find this update helpful. If there's anything else we can help with, do let us know through the chat box on getpause.com. If you'd like to edit your star rating to reflect this update, please click on "Edit Review" to the right of this review. We appreciate your time and candidness! ### 32. Increased transparency and ownership **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Khushboo G. | HR Operations Executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The fact that everyone in the organisation can view their leave balance at any time makes my life easier—no need to keep track and communicate this manually. **What do you dislike about Pause?** Would help to have multiple approvers for a person. We've communicated this to the team and apparently they're working on it. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pause has made our leave policy and balances more transparent than it was before. ### 33. Very easy to use Pause. Recommend it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mikami C. | People Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Pause?** The web app is very lightweight and pleasant. Better than any other leave management tool I've come across in terms of pricing **What do you dislike about Pause?** I can't put multiple people in multiple teams. Want more flexibility. **What problems is Pause solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to use tedious spreadsheets to manage leaves. 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