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5M unemployed but industries suffer worker shortage??

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Atlas Aurelius

Saturday, June 25, 2022 - 05:20 am Click here to edit this post
Like title suggests, and I can not get to the bottom of it. Feel free to take a look as my stats are all public for "The Kingdom of Valyria" of Fearless Blue. I've raised wages, and the industries are making profit on their own, so I do not understand. Are those 5M freeloading off my high Social Security?

Emerithe Cantanine

Saturday, June 25, 2022 - 10:23 am Click here to edit this post
There's several different things you could do to increase your employment percent, so those 5M workers stop freeloading off Social Security.

1) You're already building new corporations, which is obviously what you should do. However, (and I can't be sure because I couldn't see all the numbers) you might not have enough workers to fill each corporation up to 100% hiring.

2) Get your education score up to at least 160. You do this by building elementary schools, high schools, and universities. If you click on your game level, it will show you all of your country's indexes. Under education index will be the sub-indexes for the 3 facility types. The education index will be around the lowest of the 3 sub-indexes.

The reason you should do this is because at higher indexes, you produce more skilled labor (like managers, executives, and high tech engineers). However, if it gets too high (like 240 or 250) you have the opposite problem where you have no unskilled labor and you have to constantly change skilled labor to unskilled labor.

3) Set your education priorities total to 120. 120 is as high as this will be effective. It starts you off at 60, but you need to get it up to 120.

4) Make more executives. From what I could gleam from your numbers, you're short by about 8000 executives. Set the priority for them to 20 or 30, if not more.

5) Find someone who needs lots of labor and offer to trade your unskilled laborers to them in exchange for higher skilled labor.

A note about how hiring works: From what I can tell, if a company does not have enough of 1 worker type, it will drop the percentage of all other worker types in the corporation down to the percentage of the 1 worker type.

Atlas Aurelius

Sunday, June 26, 2022 - 01:57 am Click here to edit this post
Fantastic Help & Advice! Thank you, Emerithe Cantanine!

Emerithe Cantanine

Sunday, June 26, 2022 - 05:05 am Click here to edit this post
You're welcome, Atlas!


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