Highly educated jobs filled with uneducated workers

[hashishmaria]

Hi,

I've run into a problem- it seems like my low-density commercial buildings don't change their workforce after leveling up. And then they get abandoned because of low level of worker education.
An example- I have a building, that requires 3 highly educated and 3 well educated workers. But the composition of workers is 1 highly educated, one well educated and the rest are uneducated. The building goes "not enough educated workers" after a while and then it gets abandoned.

And yet I have hundreds of unemployed university graduates in my city and a lot of over-educated workers in my industry... This problem just plagues my low-density commercial zones all over the city.

The same thing happens, if I try to switch already built industry to an Industry 4.0, but it can be prevented, if I delete the factories first and rebuild them already as 4.0. But I don't see a way to do this with low commercial zones...

Anyone has an idea how to fix this? Thanks.

[Daveyboy]

I haven't had buildings abandon because of the workforce not levelling up, but all my cities do always seem to have a high graduate unemployment rate and tons of overeducated workers at buildings that don't really need them, yet the ones I actually want to level up are complaining they want better educated workers.

I ended up applying education boost everywhere to get more people to go to university so the buildings I want to level up would also get a big supply of overeducated workers, though still having problems levelling up (see my other post).

But yeah, education boost citywide might help, but then again it may cause other issues I'm not sure. I think I might have a shortage of partly-educated citizens in my city and not sure if this is causing any problems.

Although I'm not getting any abandonment due to worker education myself, I do regularly get bouts of abandonment due to death waves and corpses piling up despite tons of crematoriums and 150% health budget.

[hashishmaria]

Well, another 12 hours of gameplay and still the same issue. In the end I replaced all low density commercials with "Organic and local produce". They don't level-up, so they don't suffer from the issue. And as long as cims don't complain, I'm OK with that...

[~\\Savarast//~]

Strange... are you running any mods? Do the uneducated workers have alternative workplaces ideal to them? Maybe they won't leave because there isn't a place for them to go to. I don't recall running into this during vanilla gameplay.

[MarkJohnson]

Sounds like you need more educated worker.

Maybe the uneducated are ust placeholders so they aren't roaming your streets?

Maybe a mod?

But definitely lack of education.

[Daveyboy]

There's a mod somewhere that lets you limit what stage they'll level up to. It's not a problem I've experienced though, once they *eventually* level up they always stay levelled up for me.

[kristofburger]

Commercial doesn't require more educated workers to level up like industry and offices, so they can level up and leave workers with insufficient education occupying too many jobs after an upgrade. This problem can occur in low density buildings even in advanced cities, but mostly in buildings that are four zoning cells or less in size. It's a plain oversight by the developers.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by kristofburger:

Commercial doesn't require more educated workers to level up like industry and offices, so they can level up and leave workers with insufficient education occupying too many jobs after an upgrade. This problem can occur in low density buildings even in advanced cities, but mostly in buildings that are four zoning cells or less in size. It's a plain oversight by the developers.

Correct, all jobs level up immediately with enough happiness bonuses. But residential will only level up according to education level + happiness whichever is lowest.