Part of HRM Hub Shift Swaps
Trade or cover, colleague accepts, manager approves — and the exchange is atomic.
Somebody cannot make Saturday. In most businesses that becomes a group chat, a verbal promise and a rota nobody updated. HRM Hub gives it a state machine instead.
There are two shapes. A trade swaps two specific shifts between two named people. A cover offers one shift for anyone to take. Either way the request goes to the target, the target accepts, and the manager approves — and only at that last step does anything actually change hands.
The exchange is atomic. There is no window in which a shift belongs to nobody, and none in which two people both believe it is theirs. Requests nobody answers expire on their own rather than sitting open forever, everything arrives in an inbox with tabs, and notifications reach the phone.
Key Benefits
Trade a specific shift or ask for open cover
Target accepts first, manager approves second
The exchange is atomic — never half-completed
Unanswered requests expire instead of lingering
An inbox with tabs instead of a group chat
Push notifications for requests, responses and decisions
Use Cases
A wedding on Saturday
The employee asks for cover, a colleague takes it, the manager approves. The rota is already correct before anyone tells the manager in person.
Straight trade
Two people exchange a morning and an evening. Both shifts move in one operation, so the calendar is never briefly wrong.
Nobody bites
The request expires on its own and the shift stays where it was, so the manager sees a real gap rather than a stale promise.