We are excited to announce Shift Linking, a powerful new way to produce better rosters with ease, is now available for existing customers via Early Access.

For scheduling coordinators managing complex, multi-event, or distributed frontline workforces, assigning the same employee across multiple shifts in a day has always meant hunting down individual shift tiles and applying changes one by one; a slow, error-prone process.

Shift Linking was built to solve this problem. Shift Linking is a purpose-built mechanism to group, select, and edit connected shifts instantly, so that you can eliminate manual effort, prevent data loss, and maintain scheduling integrity from roster build through to supervisor review.

Let’s dive in…

🔥 What's New

Shift Linking introduces a set of tightly integrated capabilities that make managing complex, multi-shift structures faster, smarter, and more reliable within Roster Manager.

• One-click group selection – Click the link icon on any shift tile to instantly select every shift in that linked group simultaneously — replacing manual, tile-by-tile hunting with a single action that takes under two seconds.
• Floating bulk-action toolbar – A new viewport-pinned selection toolbar appears automatically whenever two or more shifts are selected, surfacing Edit, Link, and Unlink actions directly in the coordinator's workflow — no more buried context menus or top-bar dropdowns.
• Unsaved changes protection – A new navigation prompt prevents silent data loss: if a coordinator clicks away mid-edit, the system prompts them to save or keep editing before navigating — ensuring in-progress work is never silently discarded.
• Persistent validation warnings – When a conflicted or overtime-triggering assignment is saved, clear visual warning indicators — yellow cards, warning icons, and text blocks — persist on the roster grid and in the Shift Editor, keeping compliance issues visible for supervisor review until they are explicitly resolved.
• Cascading bulk unassign – Unassigning any shift within a linked group automatically cascades the action across the entire group, maintaining the structural integrity of linked assignments and preventing orphaned or inconsistent shift states.

⭐ Why it Matters

Shift Linking replaces fragmented, manual roster workflows with structured, auditable scheduling operations.

• Smarter Rostering – Shift Linking replaces slow, manual roster workflows with structured, one-click group management across connected shifts.
• Instant Group Control – Coordinators can select, edit, and unassign entire linked shift groups instantly, with every in-progress change protected from accidental loss.
• Compliance Visibility – Persistent validation warnings keep compliance and overtime conflicts visible on the roster until they are explicitly resolved.
• Lower Labour Costs – Labour costs are reduced by making it easy to combine shorter shifts, eliminate scheduling gaps, and meet minimum call-out requirements.
• Easy Transition from Back office  – Existing linked shifts from Back Office surface automatically in Roster Manager on day one.

🏁 Getting Started

Shift Linking is being made available in cloud via Roster Manager, through an Early Access program. Initially this is for customers who've used this functionality in the Back Office Event Planner, and later will be opened up for all interested customers.

Early access allows your team to review the functionality, plan for and adjust any necessary workflows, and provide direct feedback to our product team regarding further improvements or user experience suggestions.

To request access, please contact support@humanforce.com or to learn about Shift Linking, read this help article.