https://bunnycal.io/blog/tags/teams/Recent content in Teams on BunnyCal BlogHugoen-usMon, 27 Jul 2026 16:03:00 +0530https://bunnycal.io/blog/round-robin-that-actually-balances/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bunnycal.io/blog/round-robin-that-actually-balances/<p>Every scheduling tool with a team plan claims to do round-robin. Most of them implement the same thing: keep a pointer, hand the next booking to whoever is next in the list, advance the pointer. It demos beautifully. It falls apart in the second week.</p> <h2 id="why-a-rotating-pointer-drifts">Why a rotating pointer drifts</h2> <p>A pointer only counts <em>offers</em>, not outcomes. Consider a three-person team where everyone is nominally equal:</p> <ul> <li>Priya works Tuesdays through Fridays.</li> <li>Marco is on Pacific time; the team&rsquo;s booking page is mostly booked by European prospects in the morning.</li> <li>Dana has back-to-back internal meetings every Monday.</li> </ul> <p>The pointer doesn&rsquo;t know any of that. It offers Marco the 9am CET slot, finds he has no availability, and skips to the next person. Skipping <em>doesn&rsquo;t cost Marco his turn</em> — so he stays at the head of the queue and gets skipped again. By Friday, Priya has taken sixteen calls and Marco has taken three, and nobody touched a setting.</p>