Know When A Schedule Is Saving A Look

Details

Schedule cards now make normal quiet-time behavior readable at a glance. An employee that has woken several times and found nothing waiting starts checking less often on purpose. The card now says Pacing itself, instead of leaving that healthy efficiency looking like something had gone wrong. Three states are visible before you open a card: running on pace, pacing itself because the work is quiet, and waiting normally on standby. Real schedule problems stay marked separately, which is the part that matters. A genuine failure should never hide inside sensible behavior, and sensible behavior should never be read as a failure. If a faster check matters right now, choose Use normal cadence. That restores the next check to the cadence you set without editing the schedule itself, so you get one prompt check and nothing to remember to put back afterwards. It is worth knowing why the backing off happens at all. Waking an employee costs credits whether or not there was anything to do, so slowing down during a quiet stretch is the cheapest thing it can do on your behalf. It picks its normal rhythm back up on its own as soon as work appears.

What changed

• See on pace, pacing itself, and standby states before opening a card
• Quiet-time backing off reads as efficiency, not as a failure
• Use normal cadence restores the next check without editing your schedule
• Real synchronization warnings stay marked separately