Where should citizens work?

[Heisenberg]

Where should citizens work? I have a house with 75 residents (all experts), next to it is the school (62m). Then I clicked where should the citizens go > School 100%. At school, a maximum of 6 out of 15 are teachers! Next to the school is a bus stop, if I tell the residents to go to the bus stop, will they automatically go from the bus stop to the school? (Like a day labor job?) it says Citizens decide for themselves what's best? Does it make sense to build a bus stop in the middle of a residential area from ALL residential buildings, send the workers there and assign jobs from there or let them decide for themselves?

[SiberianDev]

Usually I let citizens decide themselves. It works alright for the most part.

[Silent_Shadow]

It depends, usually you don't need to tell people where to go, but it can be nice for city planning. For example, you might set up a house that allows only university workers to live there and only work at the nearby university, or you might have a building at the edge of town like a fire station and it is easier to just tell a flat's residents to walk there before seeking work at a station.

Citizens free to choose will typically only go to a station if no open jobs are within walking range of their flat. From any station, they will go to an open job upon entering the station by a vehicle drop off or after "an hour" after waiting there. Citizens will not leave the vehicle if there are no open jobs and the "force citizens to leave this vehicle" box is not checked.

As for the stations, you can use this to ratio workers out of a group (typically from public transit vehicles) between buildings in range of the stop, or to ensure that certain jobs like a heating plant is always staffed before others (set the ratio of workers to it to 100% and all other jobs to 0%). Keep in mind that if you select one or more places for "where citizens should work" they will not go to places in walking range that are not selected and thus listed.

That bus stop in the center might be useful for extending the walking range of citizens and as a source of labor for construction projects, but it probably won't do much for organizing their labor.