Big Ambitions Office Requirements: Desks and Staff

Decide whether the office serves clients or manages businesses

A law firm or another office service business earns revenue from clients. Headquarters houses management roles such as Purchasing Agents, Logistics Managers, and HR Managers. The official store description confirms that those managers require office infrastructure. Decide which function you are creating before hiring or copying a layout, because a furnished room is not itself an operating business.

For a service business, inspect local demand and compare property details with the planned team. Do not assume online client handling makes location irrelevant: a December 2025 developer reply explicitly confirms that Traffic Index still affects office businesses. For headquarters, evaluate how many usable workstations and demanded amenities fit without paying for unnecessary space.

Build and validate one complete workstation

Begin with one desk, its computer, and a correctly attached chair. Check the game's placement feedback and any warning on the computer before duplicating the arrangement. Historical developer support identifies chair position and desk orientation as causes of a computer reporting a missing chair. Furniture that appears close together can still fail to form a usable station.

Include toilets and sinks in the opening plan. The official EA 0.9 notes make office bathrooms a requirement based on building size and warn that an office missing them will not earn money. Use the current requirements panel for the exact fixtures and quantities; a desk-only blueprint is incomplete.

Once the station is recognized, keep access and room for employee-specific additions. Our recommendation is to validate one small group before furnishing the whole premises. If the prototype cannot accept an employee, multiplying it creates a larger repair job instead of more working capacity.

• 1. Read the current business and employee requirements before ordering furniture.
• 2. Place the desk and computer, then attach the chair in the valid orientation.
• 3. Resolve workstation warnings, install the required bathroom fixtures, and preserve access.
• 4. Assign one suitable employee and confirm that the station appears in the schedule.
• 5. Expand the tested arrangement only after the first worker is correctly assigned.

Assign people to desks, not just to the company

Hiring a manager does not automatically place them at a working computer. Assign the employee to the intended business and then inspect that business's schedule. A June 2025 developer support case about Purchasing Agents was resolved by assigning them to available desk slots that the player had mistaken for weekend shifts.

Read the selected day and scroll through the entire workstation list before concluding that the office has no space. An empty workstation near the bottom is not necessarily a different day's shift. After assignment, open the relevant management screen and confirm that the person is available for the intended role.

Match individual demands to the correct station

Compare the employee's requested furniture with the items attached to the desk they actually use. Buying the right chair elsewhere in the same office does not establish that this person's station has it. The developer has recommended inspecting the workstation information in the scheduler to identify the attached equipment; use the current interface's identification tools before replacing a row of desks.

Different employees can need different additions, so avoid treating an attractive blueprint as proof that every demand is satisfied. In February 2026, the developer pointed out that the main-menu blueprint creator can edit existing layouts. Use that option for a repeatable office specification, then still check the installed result against your actual staff.

Check headquarters limits and service-office performance

In April 2025, the developer clarified that headquarters has no customers and can hold employees according to how many desks fit. Its locked work schedule supports management across the week. Do not transfer a customer limit from a service office into an assumed hard manager limit, or try to create an evening headquarters shift to unlock an unused desk.

For a service office, our recommendation is to compare clients served with the team you pay before adding more desks. A valid station creates the ability to work, not a guaranteed client. Keep hiring, equipment spending, and price changes separate enough that you can tell which change improves the business.

Office requirements questions

The computer says a chair is missing. What should I check? Inspect the chair's attachment and the desk's direction. Revalidate one station before rebuilding the office.

Do all offices ignore Traffic Index? No. Developer support confirms that it still matters for service offices. Headquarters is a different management function.

Does a blueprint finish the setup? It can provide the furniture layout. You still need to inspect placement, employee demands, and assignments for your own team.

Is there one furniture shopping list for every office? No. Use the current business requirements and each employee's demands; this guide deliberately avoids a universal item count or fixed opening budget.