Work Zone Management

[Sarahbethus]

Any ideas/tips for workzone management to make it easier/more efficient. How do you do it? Do you name all of the workzones. I have around 40! I should of made it easier for myself at the start....

[moorwiesen]

My Habitats have names and the workzones have names for that. For example
Habitat 1 is named Crocodiles
Habitat 2 is named Peafowl
Now if the workzone has one of them it is called "keep crocodile" if it has two it is called "keep croc pea"
If it is a talk workzone it is "talk croc jan" for the month. Other staff does not have workzones for me. Only keepers and educators.

[grampers62]

The dreaded workzone issues...
There might be as many strategies as there are players. Myself, I like to keep it as simple as possible. Most staff will not need workzones but I usually set a few for vendors and keepers. Naming is usually simple like north, south, east and west or sometimes by a named sector. A good zoo that I shared which shows reasonable workzone setup is Isle of Doctor Wylde. That zoo has the naming convention with the region mixed with ordinal compass points.

[master_seer]

Hi there - I'll give you an example from a typical 12 animal zoo. Entrance Shops (4/5 vendors for the shops plus a small toilet, 2 janitors, 1 Security = 1 staffroom to start and then add one later) 3x Habitats - I'll call it Cheetah Lemur Rhino, for example (3/4 Keepers, 1 mechanic, 1 Vet, 1 Janitor and 1-2 extra shops with vendor or a toilet and a shop based on demand) repeat this for every 2, 3 or 4 habitats depending on size. I tend to have about 4 habitat workzones like this.

I may also hire one extra keeper who I call Head Keeper who I don't assign and maybe two vendors who can 'cover' who are also not assigned.

[grampers62]

That sounds like a little much but if it works for you then that's okay.

[Jaggid Edje]

I name all of my work zones with the start of the name for the job-type that the work zone is for.

So keeper work zones, for example, all begin with "KEEP-", Caretaker work zones begin with "CT", etc. for example.
All of my work zones are task specific. No work zone has more than one type of employee in it, except for the Security gaurds, which I put in Caretaker work zones. And also I often put 1 caretaker in each vendor work zone. I do this because the optimal coverage area in terms of efficiency is different for every job type, so it doesn't make any sense to me to combine their work zones.

Beyond that, the rest of the name depends on who the work zone is for. For keepers, I put the name of a few of the Habitats, for most of the rest I use the zoo area it covers.

So my keepers that cover 3 habitats centered around a giraffe habitat, for example, would have a work zone named "KEEP-Giraffe", My Caretakers that cover the area closest to the main zoo entrance would have a work zone named "CT-Entrance", etc.

I'm the same as @Grampers62 as well, in terms of being pretty simple beyond that. "North", "South", etc. are pretty standard for the second part of work zone names in most of my zoos.
I'm different from him though in the fact that once my zoo is larger than around 6 habitats ALL of my staff is in work zones, except vets. I never use work zones for Vets, and generally have a maximum of 2 vets even for my largest zoos.