Better Employment/Unemployment Statistics

44 votes

Currently, employment statistics are represented as follows;

Employed/Available (jobs)

This, while in and of itself useful, lacks significant information that can easily be represented. I propose a few alternatives and suggestions;

Employed/Available/Demanded - The benefit of this is that it does not include "paused". This is a beneficial QOL change because it prevents the player from believing certain structures are not having their employment needs met.

Employed/Available/Employable - This would ideally only be on the topmost overall display. This allows players to see the amount of citizens they need for full employment demand to be met.

Employed/Available (Unpaused)/Employable - This tries to mesh the prior two.

Under consideration Suggestion UI Suggested by: Dusty (19 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 11 Feb, '23 • Comments: 29

Comments: 29

25 Sep, '21
Logan Merged
Right now it tells us How many beavers are adults and how many are employed, such as 34 adults and 34 employed. Since the info of how many beavers are out of jobs in that tab, and how many adults I have in the top tab, It would be nice to have it changed to Adults/Jobs available. I often don't realize that I've built too many buildings and a few are empty because there's not easy way to spot that.
25 Sep, '21
FuryoftheStars Merged
Only issues I’ve had with that display are 1) unless you’ve got a building from the district you are looking at selected, the display is of all your districts combined, and 2) that paused housing still shows as available there.
26 Sep, '21
Scott T Smith
Employed/Available/Demanded/Built. The number of beavers working. The number that are available. The number of jobs available minus closed slots. The total number of work slots built.
26 Sep, '21
Day Merged
One thing I struggled with was figuring out how many beavers were working and how many more I need. It would be very nice if the statistics were modified to show for each building type:
beavers working there/enabled positions/total possible positions.

For example, if you have two builders huts, you can have 8 possible beavers working as a builder, you disabled 2 spots so only 6 beavers can work there. However, because of lack of population, only 3 beavers are working as a builder. The statistic would show:
Builders' hut 3/6/8

This would be much easier to manage your workforce.
30 Sep, '21
Dan Merged
The employability list is quite useful however the main tab that summarises it all seems a bit inconvenient. It currently shows 'Employed/Adults' yet it's already rather easy to see how many adults are in your colony. I suggest 'Employed/Available Jobs' this will be a much greater ratio, in my opinion. It will save us from counting the total available jobs ourselves, also the employed/adults ration is already included in the tab itself as 'Unemployed'. This will just make it smoother and quicker for those calculating how many jobs are still empty and so how many more beavers they need.
01 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
"Job Tab QOL: Employed/Total Jobs" (suggested by Dan on 2021-09-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
04 Oct, '21
H3LS Merged
Looking at the district work allocated, would love to see workers/work available/total available. Example - 4 water pumps , 3 open for work and only 2 workers would look like: 2/3/4.

LOVE the game BTW
07 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"District Workers & Allocation Quantity" (suggested by H3LS on 2021-10-04), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
01 Nov, '21
MattC8899 Merged
Next to the option to view uneployed beavers I would like to see a number that shows the unfilled jobs.
02 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Empty Jobs" (suggested by MattC8899 on 2021-11-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
08 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"More detailed employee stats" (suggested by Day on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
08 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"[UI] Employed/Adult beavers changes" (suggested by Logan on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (3) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.
08 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"it doesnt say how many jobs we need versus how many beavers we have" (suggested by Eric DeLare on 2021-11-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
10 Nov, '21
Jimbo Jambo
Upvoted.

I do want to caution against making the readout too complicated. The number of paused jobs is really the only thing that's not shown, so besides changing the summary readout to match the individual readouts (as @Dan suggested), that's really the only information that I think needs to be added.

I would display it as "A/B (C)", where A is the number of employed beavers, B is available jobs (that is, worked jobs plus empty ones), and C is all jobs (available plus paused). The idea of the parentheses is to show that that C is not an entirely separate statistic, just a variation of B.
18 Nov, '21
LordBluefiree Merged
The Jobs HUD currently shows Adult/Employed beavers. when I want to know, how many Jobs are available in total or vacant, I have to manually count them.
I think a counter like this would be more convenient:

Employed/Vacant jobs
or
Employed/Total nr of jobs

I think adult beavers are not nessesery there, because we allready see their count in the beaver listing.
20 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Total number of available jobs in HUD" (suggested by LordBluefiree on 2021-11-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
22 Nov, '21
Shukumei Merged
I want to see the total amount of jobs I have available
22 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Jobs Panel : Change Adult / Employed to Employed / Jobs" (suggested by Shukumei on 2021-11-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
23 Nov, '21
Andy W Merged
I'm looking at the Employment panel for one of my districts at the moment, and in the header it reads 41/41. However, I have three buildings that lack workers: two are unpowered and one doesn't need power. It feels like this should be reflected in the displayed numbers.

I propose that the Employment panel numbers should be 'working: %d / workplaces: %d / total: %d'. I'd also add a number for 'workplace available, but building unpowered' but I can't think of a single-word descriptor for it.
24 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Employment panel should reflect workplaces without workers" (suggested by Andy W on 2021-11-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
17 Dec, '21
coloradobeaver
Can we move the unemployed & homeless to the tops of the lists and make the lists scrollable? Everything gets cut off unless I set the font to tiny.
24 Dec, '21
Pulli Merged
In the list of employment it would be nice to see which buildings are empty because there are not enough workers and which buildings are paused.
25 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"paused vs. empty buildings" (suggested by Pulli on 2021-12-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
30 Dec, '21
GTX Merged
On the left of the UI where it lists Employed/Adults, it would be nice to have it show something akin to "Vacancies", showing a total number of employment slots against total number of adults. It would make it easier to see how many more beavers you need to fulfill all available work slots.

eg: Total Number Employed / Total Number of Adults / Total Number of Work Positions
30 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Show Employment Vacancies in UI" (suggested by GTX on 2021-12-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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31 Jan, '22
lohithbb Merged
# Suggestion
In the top left UI, in the section for Employment, it says (employed / adults).
Can this be changed to (employed / slots)?
This is so that its consistent with the breakdown given below for each profession.

It also saves me having to manually summing them up so that I know how many workers to migrate to districts. The total adults as the 2nd argument is kind of redundant as the section above shows the total adults / children.
01 Feb, '22
Conrad Merged
In the population UI (top left), there are three categories: the population, showing adults and children; the housing; and then the employment. Under employment, each type of building is displayed with the number of workers and maximum possible workers, however, the summary line only provides information regarding the current number of workers with no information about the number of jobs. It would be vastly more useful if the summary displayed the totals for the itemized list displayed below it, comparing the total employed against the total possible jobs. To account for the unemployed, the "Employed Beaver" figure could simply be "Adult Beavers", though this is redundant due to the Population category.

For example:
Employment [Employed Beavers]/[Total Jobs]
02 Feb, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"[Suggestion] [UI] Amend the top left UI so that it shows ( employed / slots )" (suggested by lohithbb on 2022-01-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
03 Feb, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Population UI QOL" (suggested by Conrad on 2022-02-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.