- Applies
- when the month's roster is built
- Enforcement
- Soft: weighed and minimised
- Who sets it
- An administrator in your instance
- Roster style
- rotation (chunk/pattern)
configuredCompiled from the product source on 12 September 2026
Rule catalogue · Fairness and distribution
Granted requests are spread evenly on a pattern roster
Breaking it lets the same people keep getting the days they asked for, month after month, while others rarely do.
What fairness and distribution rules protect
A roster that satisfies every hard rule can still be the thing that starts a dispute. These rules measure how unevenly the disliked things land, weekends, nights, overtime, awkward shift transitions, and push the solver toward flattening that distribution. They are mostly soft rules, because fairness is a quantity to be optimised rather than a line to be crossed, and because a unit that is short-staffed has to trade some of it away knowingly.
Other rules in this family
- Granted requests are spread evenly across people
- Unwanted days are shared evenly across people
- Weekend duty is shared evenly across people
- The roster uses as few people as it can
- Shifts are shared evenly across people and teams
- Pattern blocks are shared evenly across people
- Unwanted days are shared evenly on a pattern roster
- Weekend duty is shared evenly on a pattern roster