De laatste patch bevat onder meer een aantal verbeteringen voor werknemers die je inhuurt in De Sims 4 Aan het Werk. SimGuruGraham heeft op het officiële forum een aantal van deze verbeteringen toegelicht.

Glad to hear some people are noticing improvements. There is no need to start a new game for any of the retail fixes. Please let me know about any additional problems you encounter with it so that I can continue to push to address retail issues.

Let me offer a more in-depth explanation of the changes in Monday’s update related to Sim’s socializing at stores, and employees performing their assigned tasks.

Employees will no longer choose to do random things like dancing or playing with their phones unless they are slacking. When slacking, you can click on them and berate them for slacking or assign a new work task. You should no longer see the employees appear to be goofing around while the interaction tries to say they aren’t currently slacking. One thing of note that people may not realize – a slacking employee may choose to socialize with other non-slacking employees, thus taking up their time. Run a tight ship as the store’s owner and you’ll be just fine.

Here’s what you should notice for the various work tasks…
– Employees assigned to answer customer’s questions will chat with the various shoppers that arrive to increase the shoppers purchase intent.
– Employees assigned to clean the store will clean up any type of mess, trash, spoiled food, dirty objects, etc, that would cause shoppers to be uncomfortable, as well as mop the floors when necessary. If there is nothing to clean, they will go patiently wait by the cash register for there to be something for them to clean. Occasionally a customer may come ask them a question; but they’ll quickly exit that conversation and go back to cleaning.
– Employees assigned to restock items will be vigilant about restocking. If there is nothing to restock, they will go patiently wait by the cash register for there to be something for them to restock. Occasionally a customer may come ask them a question; but they’ll quickly exit that conversation and go back to restocking.
– Employees assigned to ring up customers will try to tend to any customers who need to be rung up. We are aware of some further issues with this specific work task that are preventing employees from always getting to customers in a timely manner, or causing them to fail to ring up customers in some situations. We have plans to address this and make employees who are assigned this task more useful.

Overall, you should see both customers and employees have an increased focus on browsing or performing their work tasks. They will still chat with each other, but they will be pulled out of those conversations to go back to browsing/working.