People Per Room

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I am trying to find a source with some information about people/room ratios and efficiency, does anyone have a good place or thread to check? It would help save a ton of hours testing building designs.

[Phiber Optik]

If I remember correctly, the efficiency starts to drop when there are more than 10 people in a room.
(Cubicles might count as a room on themselves)
Leaders get a bonus for a room alone.

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Awesome, thank you for this. I had no clue about the solo room for leaders.

[Nickjet45]

Leaders get a bonus but they also loose satisfaction, which requires you to raise salary, if they’re in their own room

[tom_mai78101]

If you have a large room, you can fit 22 employees in a room and still manage by. This really depends on the auditory/noise pollution in the room.

You want to enable that when you're placing objects/building offices. (It's near where your employee names are, just above the stats, next to the Room Groups.)

[LzDK14]

(X*Y)/3, rounded down, computers per room
Where X is height, Y is width and 3 is three

Cubicle walls don't count as a room, but help to reduce noise.

Leaders do get performance boost if they have a room solely to themselves, any other emps - don't.

Having more than one team working in same room at the same time adds a performance penalty.

[Phiber Optik]

That is an odd calculation.
for example:
An 8x8 room would result in: (8*8)/3 = 64/3 = 21.33 = 21.
Try placing 21 desks (for realism sake, 2 table desks or 2 spots desks) in a room, I dare you haha :p
Ofcourse if you were to put the room full of single desk tables then yeah you could theoretically put 21 pc's but try managing noise / employee satisfaction with those amounts of pc's.

My rule of thumb is +- a max of 10-12 pc's per room.
Noticed them complaining if I did a 20 pc room a few alphas ago.
I 'll soon try a huge room with 20-30 pc's but all in cubicles, to check if the cubicles really only affect noise and not satisfaction / efficiency.

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Okay I was thinking that calculation was a bit off as well.
I currently sit at about 12 people per room with rooms being variations of about 8x8 and I don't seem to have much of an issue at all. I could probably cramp them up further with the grid system and single desks but I do like a bit of realism. The only issue I've noticed with this set up is that marketing teams require more cubicle walls for noise control.

EDIT: Most of my non-marketing teams I can push up to 16 with most of my set ups.