Tips on improving staff happiness

[suds2002]

Hey,

I'm struggling to get staff happiness to 65%, to meet one of the targets, aside from sending individually managing staff and sending them for breaks are there any other tips please?

Thanks

[bstangeby]

I trained every assistants and janitors with the happiness skill and did not meet the goal. Fired every teacher that for sure helped. If to drastic could always try increasing salaries with 50% but have no idea if salaries
Work with happiness.

[natasharomanova]

I painstakingly trained almost all my staff to Happiness level 2. I also increased their wages when it showed they were unhappy with the current level (red unhappy face) and every time they were promoted. I also noticed that my early game Staff Room was too tiny and too far away from the rest of the sprawling campus to allieviate the Tiredness many were feeling so I built another bigger, more cushy Staff Room in another building which seemed to help.
Of course, the 2 metrics the game was forcing on us - Environment and Temperature - also have an effect.
Good luck! I hope you get there.

[Cahlum]

The main thing is training but also room prestige, keep the rooms big and filled with stuff.

If its the last objective, just increase their salaries massively

[KitteninaBox]

If you didn't know, you can change what percentage of happiness they need to be below before they go on break. It's in the graphs menu on the last tab. That's also where you can give pay raises to all your staff members at the same time.

I also put staff rooms in every building with shower and toilets right next to them. Your staff use showers too!

[Ovomaltine]

I just manage to get the 65% without barely training them with :
- high prestige room and area
- "services" like toilet and food in every building.
- break room in all the major classe building.
- increase salary from time to time

[RpgMaker XP]

For this mission I just increased the salary of the staff and it worked.

[Djayc85]

Just finished this mission after increase the prestige of the rooms and it doing nothing, I went to the policy tab and increased the wages and it then shot up to 65% happiness

[HakunaMatata]

Originally posted by RpgMaker XP:

For this mission I just increased the salary of the staff and it worked.

ya me too just increase their salary

[Mathazzar]

You can actually just let time run when the school year ends. Eventually, your staff happiness will increase to 65%. It's how i did it if you're asking about the magic school requirement.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

What is a "high room prestige" in this game? Most everything in my school minus bathrooms and showers are at 5 or higher, yet the staff are still less than 60% satisfied with the room prestige rating.

They also want more training, but I'm pumping them through training rooms to no avail lol.

Unrelated note but I can't breach that 50k barrier :(

[rkelly17]

Unlike TP Hospital, which maxes prestige at 5, TP Campus has pretty much unlimited prestige, so 5 may not be enough. Especially get the staff room up as high as possible (lots of rugs and posters, though no more than 2 of any particular rug or poster). They'll be happier and get back to work sooner.

[r.wardy]

Originally posted by ☠ Asasin ☠:

What is a "high room prestige" in this game? Most everything in my school minus bathrooms and showers are at 5 or higher, yet the staff are still less than 60% satisfied with the room prestige rating.

They also want more training, but I'm pumping them through training rooms to no avail lol.

Unrelated note but I can't breach that 50k barrier :(

Around 8 seems to be a high enough value, seeing how an 8 prestige dorm can get you max rent if you don't exceed the 5 students per bed limit. 9 seems to be somewhat of a soft-cap. I had students ask me to get a room level up to 9, but never beyond that. It's rather easy to get a building's or even a plot's prestige way higher than 10, but that doesn't seem to add much of a benefit.

About staff training: From my experience, having unused skill slots is worse than not having high skill. At what point teachers aren't satisfied with their training seems to depend on A) the course level and B) the campus level. Campus level may also affect the assistants and janitors, though I never found it necessary to increase their main traits beyond 5.

On a side not, it is perfectly possible to get the staff award at the end of a year without any training at all.
I set the free time/tend their needs' slider to 50% and increased every one's salary to the point where it becomes a green smiley face. Only one assistant had the happy trait when I hired them, the others have mostly 1 skill at level 1 and nothing else. I run two courses at level 1 with 8 students each, two teachers per class plus one tutor per class. The campus level is 14. I don't get the staff award every year though.

[wicked lester]

Originally posted by ☠ Asasin ☠:

What is a "high room prestige" in this game? Most everything in my school minus bathrooms and showers are at 5 or higher, yet the staff are still less than 60% satisfied with the room prestige rating.

They also want more training, but I'm pumping them through training rooms to no avail lol.

Unrelated note but I can't breach that 50k barrier :(

What year are you on? It should be pretty easy by year 3 or 4. Keep maxing out course levels, enough high prestige dorms for max accommodation to maximize rent. 100 students is already approaching 1M or more (depending on the classes) in tuition + 250,000 in rent + 100,000+ in xp bonus.

[Moira]

I've finished almost every career except for private tuition and upgrading machines - and I have never ONCE won the Staff Satisfaction award. It's actually gone past frustrating and back into 'really quite funny'.

[K.C. Wiley]

One tip I haven't seen in this thread: increasing the break threshold on the policy page. (It's one of the keyboard numbers -- 5 I think? I usually fiddle with the numbers until I get the right page.)

Increasing that threshold and building staff rooms that your staff 1. don't need to travel across campus to get to, and 2. aren't full all the time will generally do it. Adding a pay raise here and there will quell any unhappiness with pay. Lastly, make sure you decorate your campus (as decor/prestige seems to have a bigger effect on staff happiness in this game than in TPH).