Tycoon Zone

Why are my employees so unhappy?

The level of staff “dissatisfaction” affects how likely it is that your employees go absent or become sick.  This value starts at 1% and can go as high at 100%. The higher the value, the greater the likelihood of staff absences.

There are exactly four ways for your staff dissatisfaction to increase:

1. Every day at midnight, it increases by 1%.
2. If your warehouse overflows, even by 1 good, dissatisfaction will increase by 20% the following midnight.
3. If your salary account does not have enough money in it when salaries are paid, dissatisfaction will increase by 20% the following midnight.
4. If your company has negative savings at 01:30, 02:30, 03:30, 04:30, or 05:30, dissatisfaction will increase by 50% the following midnight.

Note that in every case, the increase occurs not at the moment of the problem, but the following midnight. This can lead to confusion about what caused the jump in dissatisfaction, especially if it goes unnoticed for a day or more. You can generally find something in your transactions log to explain the cause of dissatisfaction jumps, but you may have to look through several days of logs to find it.

If your dissatisfaction level is high, you can take Absence Prevention Measures to reduce it. There are six different measures to choose from, each with a different level of effectiveness and cost:

1. Danish Pastry - reduces dissatisfaction by 10% at a cost of  50 iKr per employee
2. Health Care Program - reduces dissatisfaction by 15% at a cost of 98 iKr per employee
3. Company Kick-off - reduces dissatisfaction by 20% at a cost of 154 iKr per employee
4. Home Computer Package - reduces dissatisfaction by 25% at a cost of 178 iKr per employee
5. Business Journey - reduces dissatisfaction by 30% at a cost of 220 iKr per employee
6. Bonus - reduces dissatisfaction by 35% at a cost of 300 iKr per employee

The measures take effect immediately when purchased. You can do several measures at once if you need to, but remember that each measure can only be done once per week.

Once you reduce your dissatisfaction level, employees will be less likely to go absent. But the ones that are already absent are not going to come back any sooner.

Controlling staff dissatisfaction and preventing absences are critical steps to ensuring your company’s success. Keep an eye on creeping dissatisfaction levels, and always respond quickly to jumps that are caused by mistakes. Keeping dissatisfaction low will help keep staff absences low, and that will make it easier to keep your buildings operating at a high capacity.