Workers too high educated

[RegenCoE [AUT]]

Hey there,

did anybody else run into the problem that your citizens are too high educated and now won't work in the industriy buildings anymore? I mean - I do get that education is good and I know that I can just use office buildings instead of industry - but I thought "Hey, we have some forrest and some farm ressources - let's build some industry there."

Well, my industry buildings end up abandoned because there are no workers for them. Most of my citizens are over-educated, a few overqualified people work in the factories but most non-office industry buildings have to close after a while. Is the only option to reduce the number of elementary schools? Also - I did not invest in the higher education policy (was the first thing I checked).

Cheers and thanks for your help :)

[langersuk]

Whilst watching Quill18 stumble upon this he then realised that his industry needed to level up a tier then they would employ highly skilled workers. Not sure if this works with forestry and farming though

[RegenCoE [AUT]]

Will give it a try, thanks :)

[Mike]

I'm not sure this is true. As far as I can see, there is no upper limit on education for jobs.

[toosad]

I have encountered the same problem. The forestry only employ uneducated workers which is a minority in my city. And since the forestry cannot level up at all, they stay at the maximum tier and only hire uneducated worker.

[andrew]

Farms and lumber-mills can't be upgraded its already on highest level -- level 1. Doesn't seems removing schools helps, I've built resident area next to lumber mills away from main city and educated people still live in this 10 millions miles away village.

[Bacculus]

Not sure what I've been doing differently, but my citizens don't seem to have a problem with working in forestry despite being overeducated. There's a notice saying they are, but outside of that, there are no real objections. Mind you, I also have a hefty amount of offices built as well, but the industry buildings seem unaffected by that.

Maybe you just have a surplus overall? I have demand for industry/offices, so my assumption is that the people are taking sub-optimal jobs because the ones they want aren't available. I imagine that if I had enough offices for them all to find jobs there, they'd migrate away from the forestry occupations.

[Asylum]

if you have overeducated people in non speciallized buildings it ranks them up, so its not an issue.

[RegenCoE [AUT]]

Well, I couldn't be bothered anymore with that crap and ended up replacing all my industry zones with offices. Satifies the need for jobs and I don't have to worry about having too many educated workers. Also less noise- and regular pollution.

[Weeping-pirate</JAG\>]

uuhm Specializations dont level up, offices etc do :) ow yah also having the problem my people are to smart and dont want ♥♥♥♥♥♥ jobs :D

[Lamoe]

I suppose farming and forestry aren't the best employers.
If people have another option (office job), they will take it.

Try to create a job shortage, see if that helps...

[Peter Pan]

This is a huge problem that I just discovered too.

I wanted to have some farm and timber industry for diversity. But for some reason the new citizens going into my residential (that is cut off from schools) end up educated fast.

Yes as strange as it sounds, over-education is a problem that doesn't allow us to diversify our industry other than offices.

[Star Squirrel]

This thread is hilarious. You sound like a bunch of grumbling politicians, while failing to realize the Internet has educated the masses. Have your aids read you tweets lol.

[Humble]

Hmmm, in real life when people do educated, they won't want lower end job, they want higher end job proved income! thought there is some people even had a educated, do work low end job because there isn't job for them even they are educated, low end job is useful, but most don't want because it's low income all that, I wonder if they gave us ability uneducated building wage go same level as educated, then everyone want a job. it's might be problem solved. Key is income/wage, often low job or work job is low income while one job need higher skill educated proved high income, most people go for that one, high educated, high income, while advoid low end job, low income, why would anyone go for low end? unless they's mind is unable to go higher educated for some reason or no choice, but forced to do those and cause unhappy.

[Team Triss]

I thought I had this problem too, so I built a new suburb not too far from my farming and logging district.

I don't think it's an education problem, I think it's a people problem. I found that eventually when there was higher demand for housing and even more people filled in, these jobs were eventually filled.

Originally, my suburb had no schools just in case, but when that didn't solve the problem completely I put schools there anyway. It only went away during the residential rush, so I'm guessing that higher educated workers might prefer to work elsewhere, but if there are enough people for all jobs they will get filled.

[Mansen]

Workers will work anywhere that there's a job to be had - Yes, educated people WILL work in uneducated positions if there's no alternatives.

In short - Stop zoning new Offices and Industry and let your uneducated industry catch up.