60 articlesThe automation system in Schedule 1 becomes incredibly important the moment your operation starts expanding. While it’s technically possible to manage everything yourself, at some point you will need workers to automate your production chain.
In this guide, I’ll show you how you can get workers and use them efficiently.
How to Get & Use Workers in Schedule 1
Long story short, you need to look for an NPC named Manny at the warehouse to start hiring workers. You will be able to hire different types of employees from him, each of which have their own unique tasks.
There are four different types of workers, namely:
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West Bridge Location in Schedule 1 – Under the West BridgeApr 8, 2025- Cleaners – As the name implies, they exist solely to keep your work areas clean by picking up trash and emptying bins.
- Botanists – These people will be responsible for not only planting stuff, but also harvesting and maintaining them.
- Handlers – The handlers are mainly there to help you pack stuff and move them around in your compound.
- Chemists – These are the specialists who work on the products themselves. Not only do they cost the most, but they also take on the brunt of the “hard” work.
The more complex the job, the more expensive their signing fees and daily wages can be.
Right now, Handlers are generally considered the most valuable workers once you begin scaling up production. They are responsible for moving materials between stations, which removes a huge amount of manual work from your routine.
Meanwhile, Cleaners are useful, but I recommend you delay hiring them until later since they don’t directly improve your production speed.
Things to Keep in Mind
One thing to keep in mind when hiring is that there is a limit to how many you can have at each location. Now, once you have hired an employee, head to where you sent them and whip out your clipboard.
Using this tool, you can manage employees one by one. To do this, simply approach them and use the interact button to start managing various aspects of their work and assignments.
The most important thing to remember here is that each employee will require at least one bed. Using the clipboard, you can manually assign an unclaimed bed to them. You can then set them to work on specific stations around your place.
For example, you can assign a cleaner to specific trash cans all around your building. A chemist, on the other hand, can be assigned to lab ovens or mixing stations, among other things. These are all written on the whiteboard at the place where you hire employees from, so take note of what is said there.
Finally, you also need to ensure that there is always enough money in the briefcase that you can find on their beds. As for how much you need to put in there, that will depend on how many employees you have and what their specific job is.
Make sure to always top these up with a surplus of money so that your employees are always getting paid on time!
And that is pretty much everything you need to know in order to hire and use workers in this game. Remember that Schedule 1 is still in Early Access, so many changes in the future can affect how this feature operates.
