When you make your town in Cities: Skylines, you have several different zones. One of those zones is the industrial area, which helps the city by providing jobs and goods. Sometimes it can be an issue that unemployment for blue-collar jobs in your city goes up. How do you get more people in those industrial jobs?
How to Fix the Not Enough Workers Issue in Skylines
Here are some great ways to boost employment in your city.
Move the Industry Closer or Increase Transportation
One issue you might face that will cause a shortage of workers is that your residential areas are too far from your industrial zones. To remedy this, you have two options. The first choice is a more permanent but tedious fix; you can demolish and rebuild your industrial zone closer to residential areas. This choice is really only a good option if you have really messed up your city planning.
The most practical choice to remedy the issue is to build an efficient line of transportation to and from the industrial and residential places. Citizens want an easy commute for their work, especially if the job offers lower pay. A bus or train line will work well for this.
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Build More Homes
Sometimes there is an issue that the potential workers are too educated or unemployment is too low in your town. This means that citizens do not want to take lower-paying blue-collar jobs. A good way to fix this is to diversify and expand your city's population by building more homes. This will bring in new citizens and give more options for employment.
School's Out
When the issue is that your citizens are too educated, you have two additional options outside of building more homes. You can remove the university, which is a good but temporary fix, since you do not want to tank your white-collar market. The second option is to enable the School's Out policy for either your whole city or a specific zone. This will encourage workers to choose industrial work.
Check Utilities
One last option if none of the above work for you is to check your utility supply. Make sure that both your industrial zone and the residential area closest to the industrial zone have adequate utility supply. Having reduced utility capacity can sometimes mess with employment.
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Sorry, I forgot to comment on the reason for building a low density residential area. Remember that in factories working adults, not young people. In residential areas of high density living mostly young people and students, and the low-density residential areas, living families with adults.
This is very important also, you must distribute the types of residential and industrial area efficiently.
If you have too much residential area of high density, and you do not build residential area of low density, not only will create labor shortages in your industry, but do not allow your population grows and becomes an adult, and they will not have an area to go to create families. This will also help to maintain the balance of life cycles in your city. Children grow up, leave to study at the university and to live their own lives, and parents age. So, you must allow continually start new families in your city. This will also avoid the waves of death.
With the types of industrial zones happens a bit the same ... In the office areas working formed youth and adults, and in industries work formed adults especially. You must maintain balance in the sizes of both zones. The more higher the office area you will reduce industrial area.
But remember, although not usually think of it, in commercial areas also working citizens! Thus, the actual demand for employment in your city, depend on the balance between industrial areas, office areas and commercial areas.
And of course, in commercial high density areas there are many jobs available! Thus, as with the residential areas of high and low density, go carefully. Don't mass your city with high density areas, whether residential or commercial, because it will collapse demand for workers, and also saturate municipal services in your city. And we all know the serious consequences that can result of it ...
Now, I hope I have been helpful! Happy weekend!