Employee
Employees may be hired and work for Businesses.
Hiring Employees
Employees can be hired over the phone or by interacting with them directly if your relationship with that Sim is good, however they might refuse the offer. Hiring over the phone or computer gives you a choice of six Sims to hire and displays their Skills, Talent Badges, and starting salary. You can hire up to a total of 8 Sims per business. A business owner can use the phone or computer to hire Sims from home. Members of the owner's household who are on the business lot can use the phone or computer to hire employees.
Managing Employees
Assigning Tasks
After you hire employees, you can call them in by using the open/closed sign. Once they arrive on the business lot, you must assign them a task.
Assigning the right Employees to the right task
| Assignment | Associated Skill | Associated Personality | Associated Badge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Be Stylist | Cleaning | Neat | Cosmetology |
| Be Masseuse | No badge | ||
| Arrange Flowers | Creativity | Playful | Flower Arranging |
| Fishing | Fishing | ||
| Prepare Meals | Cooking | No badge | |
| Garden | Cleaning | Gardening | |
| Sculpt | Creativity | Pottery | |
| Restock | Body | Active | Restocking |
| Ring up sales | Logic | Serious | Register |
| Craft Robots | Mechanical | Robotics | |
| Selling | Charisma | Sales | |
| Sewing | Creativity | Outgoing | Sewing |
| Make Toys | Mechanical | Toy Making | |
| Tidy Up | Cleaning | No badge |
Breaks and Sending Employees Home
Giving your Employees a break is great for when they get hungry, or have to go to the restroom. You can tell they need a break when the little green dot above their heads turns yellow or red. If it turns red, they may not work until their mood goes back up after a break - or they may quit. If their mood is still red after they've been on break for a while, the best thing to do is send them home for the day.
Raising Wages and Promoting Employees
Raising Wages - Changing your employees wages is easy and is important to keep your employees happy. Sims with different skills or talents demand a bigger salary and if they are too under paid they'll quit. If they are "fairly paid" they will stay longer.
Promoting (Community Business Only) - Promoting an Employee to Manager is great way to run a business from the safety and Comfort of your home. To Promote an Employee, Click on an a Employee with three or four talents and good skills and select management/promote to manager and once promoted the new manager becomes selectable and you can control him and even tell him to mind the store and you only need to check up on them over the phone or computer.
Firing and Laying Off Employees
Firing - Firing an employee is necessary when that employee is not doing his or her job properly or has issues with failure to follow instructions on basic procedures.
Laying off Employees - Laying off Employees is the same as firing, but lets them down easy and not make them hate you or for good employees that you don't need anymore.