Systems and methods for trading shift of unavailable preference using trade queues

A method for digital scheduling, the method comprising, using a computer processor:

• identifying a subset of corresponding shift-trade requests in a set of queued shift-trade requests;
• approving or rejecting the identified subset of corresponding shift-trade requests according to a set of approval criteria;
• and
• outputting a notification of the approval or rejection thereof.

A system for digital scheduling, the system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory containing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:
• periodically check a data storage for queued schedule trade requests;
• identify two corresponding queued schedule trade requests;
• else, if two corresponding queued schedule trade requests are not identified:
• identify a set of cyclic queued schedule trade requests;
• else, if a set of cyclic queued schedule trade requests are not identified:
• repeat the step of periodically checking;
• approve or reject the identified schedule trade requests based on one or more approval criteria;
• and
• if the identified schedule trade requests were approved, to output one or more updated schedules reflecting the approved schedule trade requests.