You reach a point in Schedule 1 where you’ll struggle to maintain a supply of products to match customer demand. When that starts to become the case for you, it’s time to start hiring employees to help you continue expanding your operations. At first, it can be confusing to get employees set up in a way where they’re more beneficial than continuing to make and pack everything by yourself.
Employees aren’t available to you when you start the game. Instead, you need to earn access to the warehouse located across from Taco Ticklers. The NPC on the second floor of the warehouse lets you purchase four types of employees from him.
Each Employee Type and Hiring Them
You can hire a cleaner, handler, botanist, and chemist. Each one has a different set of tasks that they can help you accomplish.
- Cleaners can be assigned to trash cans to remove trash.
- Handlers can pack and store products.
- Botanists can take care of planting seeds and watering plants, then put them on the drying rack.
- Chemists can use lab stations and ovens to craft crystals.
The employees you want to hire first will depend on what you’re focused on selling and which tasks you’d rather not handle yourself until you have the money and space to fully automate your production.
To hire an employee, go to the warehouse and head up the stairs. The NPC in the office lets you pick which employee type you want and which location you want them to work at. Then, you’ll need to pay a fee to hire the employee to finish the deal.
Managing Your Employees
When you hire an employee, you get a clipboard to manage them added to your inventory. First, grab the clipboard and select the employee you want to manage. You need to use the bed section to assign them to a bed, which is how you’ll give them daily wages to get them to work, as you can place money in the black suitcase that appears on their bed. If you don’t have enough cash in the suitcase to cover their daily wage, your employees won’t do any tasks. After the bed is assigned, you can assign cleaners, botanists, and chemists to the stations you want them to use. You also want to connect their station to the storage you want them to take supplies from and place products on.
Handlers are assigned a bit differently. You need to set up the routes you want them to use. As an example, you pick the storage where they should take products from as the start, and a packaging station as the destination. Then, use the packaging station as the start and pick a storage area as the destination for where you want them to put the packed products. You can create multiple routes to have a single handler take care of multiple products that way. Handlers are the most frustrating employees to manage, but once you have them set up, they make your job much easier in Schedule 1.
