No workers - why?

[ComTols]

I'm a beginner in the game and I'm trying to build a city in realistic mode. Unfortunately my factories are empty. I do not know why. Everything is connected by bus. But the buses are mostly empty. I have already checked that all residential buildings can reach the bus stop. Now I have 491 workers out of a total of 794 citizens. I counted the total number of jobs available. There are 258 jobs in my city. Almost every workplace can be occupied twice and the factories are still empty. What am I doing wrong???

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Well for a start you haven't accounted for there being at least three shifts. You need at least three workers for every job.

[m4rek]

From what I've read/seen, workers will go to local jobs first and only after exhausting all possibilities will they go to transit stops. You can force them to go to transit stops by selecting the residential building and setting the "workers go to buildings" options to the appropriate buildings (bus stops, in this case). Beware though, if you don't include "go to other buildings" in the list, they will genuinely only go to the selected locations even if there are no jobs to be had.

[Delle(DK)]

my advice is that your first city need a minimum of 1300 people.
100-120 higher educated and 1200 ordinary workers.

That is what it takes to man all required buildings and you properbly want to reduce the amount of sellers in the shops to "save workers"
tip.. invite ordinary east workers you will automatic get a few higher educated and then you can just move them out of the building.
it is a good idea to give the higher eduated their own building it also make it more easy to "balance" how many with x education you have..
Higher educated people tend to prefer some jobs.

All the workers that have no work you can drive to example a fabric and clothing factory.
A good advice is you need more people than this, but lets start there but you want to fill your facotrys with max people to have the best economy and efficiency.

Also as Khan say above, you need to think about that workers only work 8 houres a day.
So you need 3 times as many people. So if a factory require 100 workers then your city need to have 300 + transport that need to deliver minimum 3 times a day.

Els you can dedicate a few buildings and click the button "where should workers go" and then select the bus stop.. But most of the time workers do find the bus stop them self.
I also highly recommend that you in your city have more than one bus stop.
1 for factory workers ( example for your fabric and clothing factory )
1 for your construction office workers ( maybe assigne 1 building permanent )
1 bus stop dedicated to deliver people to your heating plant.
( or actually make two bus stops in each end of your city and have 2 bus lines is better.. the heating plant is critical and you want a backup system so there always are people delivered there so two bus stops and 2 bus routes is a good solution ).

[ling.speed]

Originally posted by ComTols:

Now I have 491 workers out of a total of 794 citizens. There are 258 jobs in my city. Almost every workplace can be occupied twice and the factories are still empty. What am I doing wrong???

You have ~100 too much jobs (need to cover 3 shifts). Workers will pick the most convenient jobs first, which usually are services in walking range.
For now you can select where they go in the house building menu or bus stop. As well as set up dedicated line or stop/unload order for busses.

You can also reduce jobs avilable in workspaces that dont need to be fully staffed.
But generally below 1000 population is very low and will need micromanagment.

[Elessar_warrior]

I would suggest to learn the basics before the jump to realistic mode. Realist mode is great but too slow for learning.

[Slipvyne]

Originally posted by Elessar_warrior:

I would suggest to learn the basics before the jump to realistic mode. Realist mode is great but too slow for learning.

i mean he is trying to learn the basics here and is asking for help. Seriously, you might as well tell him to google the answer and look for a guide when he is literally googling and asking for the guide.

I am having the same issue. 1600 pop, only have 4 industries currently and I am working through the tasks. I have 7 blocks full, 1 shopping mall, pub, police, Secret service, fire/police. Those are the only 'local jobs'. The weird part is at one point it was working and suddenly the workers just stopped going to the bus stop...Even getting notifications that my 'unemployment is too high' when I have a functioning bus system between the worker and living areas of my 'town'

[Slipvyne]

Originally posted by ComTols:

I'm a beginner in the game and I'm trying to build a city in realistic mode. Unfortunately my factories are empty. I do not know why. Everything is connected by bus. But the buses are mostly empty. I have already checked that all residential buildings can reach the bus stop. Now I have 491 workers out of a total of 794 citizens. I counted the total number of jobs available. There are 258 jobs in my city. Almost every workplace can be occupied twice and the factories are still empty. What am I doing wrong???

Figured it out. I went to my bus stop and unchecked the 'passengers' from the list. I guess passengers block workers at bus stops.

[lumpmeister3]

have to look at your reason for unemployment is it a young child in home and no kindergarten spots. no workplaces in reach issue or to low education issue.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Slipvyne:

Originally posted by ComTols:

I'm a beginner in the game and I'm trying to build a city in realistic mode. Unfortunately my factories are empty. I do not know why. Everything is connected by bus. But the buses are mostly empty. I have already checked that all residential buildings can reach the bus stop. Now I have 491 workers out of a total of 794 citizens. I counted the total number of jobs available. There are 258 jobs in my city. Almost every workplace can be occupied twice and the factories are still empty. What am I doing wrong???

Figured it out. I went to my bus stop and unchecked the 'passengers' from the list. I guess passengers block workers at bus stops.

I mean, people take space on the platform whether they're going to work or not...

If the passengers are actually able to go anywhere, you could also resolve the problem by building up the line that takes them there.

If like in my city for some time they're largely people who want to get drunk when the entire republic is dry, banning passengers from the stop may be the only option. (Though building a bigger stop could also work.)

[High King Lemur]

Yeah, 500 workers is the bare minimum to even keep a city running. You want at least 1k workers to also run an industry.

[JohnNav]

My issue also was all passengers at Bus Stop :( With 13% unemployment
I canceled Passengers and had to add 'Work at Bus Stop' from a few close Housing units ;)

(You can set percent at each in City job location with at assigned Housing unit to ensure Market, Hospital, Fire staffs are full; as well as any other of your choice)
Something that did not happen when Playing learning Champaign's

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

Originally posted by Slipvyne:

Figured it out. I went to my bus stop and unchecked the 'passengers' from the list. I guess passengers block workers at bus stops.

I mean, people take space on the platform whether they're going to work or not...

If the passengers are actually able to go anywhere, you could also resolve the problem by building up the line that takes them there.

If like in my city for some time they're largely people who want to get drunk when the entire republic is dry, banning passengers from the stop may be the only option. (Though building a bigger stop could also work.)