Empathetic leave management?
It's got to be Obvious.
Obvious is an award-winning digital product consultancy that’s built pioneering products for Wikipedia, GoJek, Dunzo, Swiggy, Myntra, Simple and other name-brand organisations in India and South-East Asia. Obvious X is the high-autonomy arm of the venture that builds prolific products in-house and ready for the bigger world. Our leave management software, Pause, is the first of many people-centric and self-sustaining products that X will build.
The Pause team
Dhruv Saxena
Founder, CEO
Varun Barad
Backend Engineer
Chandrashekar
Frontend Engineer
Kanika Tibrewala
Product Designer
Sindhu Shivaprasad
Content Strategist
Chandrasekhar Ramanujan
Product Designer
Elson D'souza
Design Intern
Karan Kapoor
Product Designer
Harsh Shandilya
Mobile Engineer
Sasikanth Miriyampalli
Mobile Engineer
Viba Mohan
Product Designer
Pratul Kalia
Founder, CTO
meet bhatt
Frontend Engineer
vishwanath p
Product Designer
What's the best way to build a powerful product?
Solve a problem that you know intimately.
As a team, we’re avid software users. But when it came to leave management software, we noticed cracks that went beyond the typical cold and predatory approaches of HR software:
Clunky processes were neither easy nor quick to use
Typical HR tools put numbers before team happiness
Information gaps led to shoddy team capacity planning
Feature bloat led to complexity & unaffordable pricing
It turns out there were many other teams in the same boat!
That's why we built leave management software that:
Enables teams to plan ahead, together
Pause shifts the pressure of planning from individuals and teams onto strong time-off management systems.
Empowers employees through transparency
The least powerful actor—the employee—is the most penalised by unclear and complicated systems. Pause is transparent by default.
Prevents burnout by encouraging time off
Typical workplace culture characterises breaks as “lazy” and burnout as “a rite of passage”. But we know too well that burnout can destroy teams.
Works with your favourite workplace tools
Switching context becomes that much harder when you have to switch tools, too. By syncing with tools that teams already use, it expands their scope.
