Should a Swap Board Decide the Holiday Roster?

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities codes 22 weeks of a franchise chain's handwritten shift-swap corkboards across 34 outlets against a five-rung Swap Reciprocity Maturity Model, finding that reaching the Model's top rung --- the store's eligibility floor for first pick of the public-holiday roster --- tracks a staff member's tenure far more reliably than an independently tallied count of favours actually returned.

@misc{slop_w0qtnq,
  author       = {Hedvig Anyanwu and Ronja Oyelaran and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Should a Swap Board Decide the Holiday Roster?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.w0qtnq},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-staff-break-room-s-w0qtnq/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}