--- title: "Disruption in employee schedules" url: https://daily.dev/posts/disruption-in-employee-schedules-p9dooohhc source_url: https://timefold.ai/blog/disruption-in-employee-schedules type: article source: "Timefold" published: 2026-04-18T09:08:58.977Z updated: 2026-04-18T09:09:17.863Z reading_time: 10 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Disruption in employee schedules **[Timefold](https://daily.dev/sources/timefold-blog)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Timefold has added new configuration options to its disruption rules for employee scheduling. When a sick employee forces a schedule reshuffle, not every reassignment should count as a disruption. The new options let you define what qualifies as disrupted — for example, whether shifts that overlap or start/end within a configurable time window (e.g. 30 minutes) of each other should be treated as disrupted. This gives operations teams fine-grained control over how disruption is measured, acknowledging that the same reassignment can mean different things depending on the business context. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Book the Meeting Before You Need It](https://daily.dev/posts/book-the-meeting-before-you-need-it-xs5ihizkh) · Stay SaaSy · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work](https://daily.dev/posts/the-math-of-why-you-can-t-focus-at-work-hee65nul7) · Tech Lead Digest · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/disruption-in-employee-schedules-p9dooohhc)