We're a design agency that went fully remote for the first time during the pandemic last year. It was a bit of a shock, but we tried our best to get to this new way of working.
With remote teams, there's no end to the tools we can use to be more efficient, productive, motivated... you get the drill.
But time-off tools are almost always an afterthought — that is, until information gaps and unplanned absences wreak havoc on project plans.
When you use all-in-one HR tools and spreadsheet hacks, some pretty hair-raising stuff happens:
1) When applying for time off is complicated, teams don't take a break
2) You lose track of who's in and who's out, and plans start to suffer
3) Overworked teammates start feeling burnt out and unhappy more often than usual
4) Too many features overwhelm your team and the pricing makes you cry.
These scarily common problems hamper the well-being of high-autonomy teams.
We've been there — so we decided to built a product internally last year to solve this.
It worked so well that we started slowly sharing it with other folks and now, more than nine months later, we're really excited to announce that our product's finally launched on Product Hunt and is currently at #3 !
Pause helps teams:
1) Take time off
2) Know colleagues' availability
3) Create transparent policies
4) Plan better together
We've built Pause to integrate with some commonly used work tools like Slack and Google Calendar so that it's easy to use and you don't have to switch contexts too much.
We're looking forward to answer any questions you folks might have!
