[lobster_johnson]

That ties the channel names to the number of listeners, which opens you up to race conditions when the pool of workers changes. And you would have to keep track of which channels aren't busy at any given time, in order to avoid waking up busy workers that can't accept a job. Not impossible, just more stuff that could go wrong.

[empthought]

I think you're right, that would need to be built into whatever job management logic you implemented before the notification was sent. This type of architecture is more suitable for a workflow or job management system rather than fanning out data processing to N workers.