In plain English
It lets a new week start from an existing pattern instead of being built from nothing. The shifts or other scheduled assignments are duplicated from the week directly before it.
In context
Here, it names an action to create a week's schedule by duplicating the shifts or other scheduled assignments from the immediately preceding week.
- Situation
- Managing schedules, shifts, attendance, leave, timesheets, and availability
- What it communicates
- Toolbar option for duplicating the prior week's schedule setup.
Meaning limits
This sense is limited to duplicating scheduled shifts or assignments from the immediately preceding week, not from any other time period.
Examples
“For next week's rota, the supervisor copied the previous week instead of bringing back a pattern from earlier in the month.”
“If only one assignment has changed, copy the previous week and then swap Thursday's late shift.”