What is more effective staff training or new staff

[Eewrie]

I ask because my franchise zoo is having issues i hired a new mechanic and keeper because my staff workload was high and i started to lose money very quickly so i fired them.

But now my animals are ill and barriers are crumbling.

My question is will training be more cost effective then new staff everytime?

 

[Wolfen75]

If you get new staff you will get nuts if your zoo becomes bigger.

I have:
12 Caretakers 5 stars
28 keepers 5 stars
10 mechanics 5 stars
12 vets 4-5 stars (more than i need, i keep 4 for stricly resarching)

also 8 3 star security peole and
58 vendors with 2 stars

All 5 star employees are working fully efficient, some keepers with high workload.

That is for roughly 230-240 happy animals in 23 habitats.
Zoo rating is 5 stars in everything but customer happiness which is 4,5 stars.

Even now my staff-pathway is quite full and i build it very generously.

I startet to train them as soon as possible as high as possible.
(edit: ofc while managing your money, i needed to fire some people at an early stage too, because i overdone it.
And research and get all possible kinds of vendors, in the early days its a real help.)

Edit:
A little hint for an early, steady money boost:
Buy one or two small exhibits.
Put 4-6 Giant Tiger Land Snails into each.
Those reproduce very quickly and can be sold for a good pocket money.
Its not worth the time once your zoo is running, but selling 30 cheap snails every now and then for 8-10 k money was
a big help for my early, clumsy planet zoo days.

 

[Eewrie]

Thank you for the response. Its a massive help. I will focus on training staff before new hires.

 

[Wolfen75]

Good luck on your zoo(s).
It can be a little rough at the start, but once you get the flow its a bunch of stress fun to manage all the stuff.

And spam Donation Boxes and Habitat Education Stands.

My income last year:
100.000 $ from ticket sales
88.000 $ from shop income
241.000 $ from donation boxes

Happy animals means happy customers means happy donation boxes.
I really like the weighting on the welfare of the animals in the game.

 

[Agathorn]

Staff training always. Why? Because we don't have the ability to organize our staff with shifts, which means eventually you get in a situation where they all tend to be clumped up together working at the same time and taking breaks at the same time.

Staff need "shifts"

As I grow my staff pool I'm finding that managing them is a real mess. The biggest problem I have is the way they work. They don't coordinate at all, they just plow through work until tired then go rest. The end result is that basically all my keepers for example tend to be workign at the...

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