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url: "https://www.skedulo.com/release-notes/optimization-enhancements-to-activity-handling"
type: "releaseNote"
title: "Optimization enhancements to Activity handling"
date: "2025-11-05"
---

# Optimization enhancements to Activity handling

Optimization now treats Activities without addresses as pauses at the resource’s current location, resulting in more accurate and realistic schedules. This update reduces unnecessary travel and improves post-break assignments, helping schedulers and field teams plan their day with greater confidenc…

**Overview:**

We’ve refined how the optimizer interprets Activities without addresses to deliver more realistic and efficient scheduling. Previously, user-defined breaks, such as lunch or rest periods, were treated as full unavailability, assuming resources had returned home. This caused route inefficiencies and misaligned availability.

**What’s new:**

- **Enhanced optimizer logic:** Breaks entered without an address are now treated as temporary pauses at the resource’s current location.
- **Improved location assumptions:** The system maintains the resource’s last known position during a break unless specified otherwise.

**Value to users:**

- **Accurate schedules:** Better alignment between planned and actual field activity.
- **Efficient routing:** Optimized post-break assignments to reduce unnecessary travel.
- **Improved confidence:** Schedulers and field workers can rely on the system to reflect practical break behavior.