Workforce

Part of the Population guide

Workforce is a system's population rounded down to whole points. Buildings mobilize part of it.

Each building mobilizes a fixed workforce, the same at every level.

Which buildings mobilize:

• A finished building, on any planet, moon or asteroid.
• A damaged building, even though it gives no bonuses.
• A building being upgraded or repaired.
• A building under construction mobilizes nothing until it is finished.
• Destroying a building frees its workforce at once.

Over-mobilization

When buildings mobilize more workforce than the system has, the system's outputs drop.

12 workforce, 15 mobilized: outputs reduced by 20 %
penalty = 1 − workforce ÷ mobilized

Tooltips show it as Over-mobilized population. For the outputs it reduces and how it adds to other penalties, see System penalties.