I have a demand for Industrial in my game yet when I build industrial zones it seems that I spend most of my time demolishing abandoned buildings because there are not enough workers.
I think it might be because my populous are too well educated to work in a level 1 industrial building.
I cannot see any tax relief or policies which stimulate industrial zones. So how can I ensure that there are enough workers to fill uneducated jobs in my industrial zones? Or am I doomed to just having lots of offices instead?
Best Answer
There are a few factors to this. People need to be able to get to work, so generally you need to have a residential area within a reasonable "commuting distance" of an industrial area. Traffic contributes to this, so if there's a ton of traffic between your residential and industrial areas, the industrial areas may lose workers because they can't get to work.
If your workers are overeducated for their jobs, then you have a few options. You could improve the land value of the industrial areas with parks, so that they upgrade and require more highly educated workers, which is what you have a supply of.
Or...you could generate a supply of undereducated workers by building a residential zone without schools and such.
Essentially, each individual system within the game is a game of supply and demand. If you have too many highly educated workers, then you can fix it by increasing the demand for that (better industrial areas), or decreasing the supply of it (worse residential areas).