The four circles: find someone to cover a shift
The search goes circle by circle, from the closest people outwards, asking only people who are free and fit.
What to do
- In Shifts, tap a shift that has nobody yet, then Find someone.
- Choose Ask the whole team, with an optional bonus.
- It opens in the first circle with someone free, and moves on if nobody takes it in the time you set.
- Follow it, or stop it, inside the shift. If no circle helped, you are told.
The circles:
- The team at the branch, with the role the shift needs.
- Your other branches, and businesses of the same brand.
- Connected businesses, and people who worked for you before.
- All of YallaJob: people nearby open to this kind of work.
"Free" means no overlapping shift, and inside their availability. An empty circle is skipped. When a worker gives up a shift, the search starts by itself.
Who gets it: from your team, the first to take it. Someone from outside waits for your approval in Requests.
How far: owners set the widest circle and the wait per circle in Me, The business, Business settings, Finding replacements.
Need someone now? "I need someone now" inside the shift opens every circle at once. The suggested bonus is not ticked in advance; the business gives it directly to whoever takes the shift.
From circles 3 and 4 you see counts, never names. Any YallaJob fee shows before the search leaves your team; during the launch there is none.
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Checked against the app on 11 November 2026