Ahoy, office mates! As spring arrives, so does a breath of fresh air for your bustling workspace. As the days grow longer and flowers bloom, we bring you an invigorating update to help your office flourish! This update brings improvements to the Teams feature, adds the option to merge connected building into a single bigger building and also includes various bug fixes. Most notable is the fact that you can now set and customize uniforms for teams, that then gets applied to all team members. It's limited to hats for now, but we're planning to add customizable shirts and possibly pants as well. We're also planning to add a bigger variety of hats. This change affects the previous savegames as hats are now a team uniform only items and any hats previously worn by your employees will be removed upon loading a savegame. The rooms that are assigned now also have an icon in the top-left corner of them to indicate the fact. And another feature that we're hoping will bring value to you is the option to merge buildings. When you have buildings that are right next to each other then you just need to click on a tile where a separating wall is on and then click on the "Merge connected buildings" menu option. It will not cost your company any additional funds. We also want to thank everyone who's been sending their bug reports and feedback! Thanks to that we've managed to fix a number of problem areas this time around. We appreciate your assistance in this very much!

Patch notes

Ho ho ho! It's been a while, but the jolly old work continues. Santa has generously provided a gift of update for everyone, bringing a sense of teamwork and productivity this holiday season! This update adds a new feature/concept to the game - Teams! You can now create Teams, assign your employees to them as you see fit, and then assign those teams to certain rooms in your office, thus giving you more control over how your employees make their decisions at work. The current implementation of teams also specifically affects work related tasks of the employees. For example:

• Managers with the Self-managing perk only assign their teammates to projects
• Secretaries only assist their teammates and only manage paperwork in the rooms their teams have been assigned to
• Janitors and Handyworkers only work in the rooms where their teams have been assigned to

What's next?

Patch notes

• Added support for creating and managing teams of employees
• Added Teams tab to the Staff popup
• Added assigning teams to rooms

• Added the option to upgrade chairs and tables in the furniture context menu
• Lowered the price of buildings and rooms
• Added the option to sort employees by loyalty
• Added the option to sort projects by their current stage
• Added search and sorting to employee assignment popup
• Added darker edges for snowy roofs
• Added the snowy gravel tile
• Improved wallpaper and flooring sprites
• Improved rendering order of tiles
• Improved stairs related pathfinding

Version 0.6.1:

• Updated demo
• Fixed game crashing when sandbox mode money field is empty
• Fixed game crashing during lighting calculations
• Fixed game crashing when an employee reaches level 10
• Added support for furniture higher than one floor
• Added stairs furniture item

We're happy to announce that Office Management 101 has been selected to be part of the Dreamhack Beyond Steam event kicking off on May 31st. The game will be 33% off during the event and we also have an up to date demo available. We've scheduled livestreams for Dreamhack Beyond, so you're very welcome to come hang out with the developer and see the newest gameplay. The first stream goes live on June 1st at 12pm EST. See you there!

In the biggest update since the Early Access launch of Office Management 101 we bring you a whole new job type - The Secretary! They can submit your finished contract work for you, reduce paperwork and with a Tidy perk they will even organize the paperwork lying around everywhere. [previewyoutube=IP1grfcjISQ;full][/previewyoutube] Version 0.6 also includes new background music, new wallpaper choices, new flooring, new furniture and a new character head. I would also like to express our appreciation for everyone who has put their faith in us and opted into the Early Access of Office Management 101! All your feedback and comments have been of immeasurable value to us! Thank you so much!

Patch notes

• Added the Secretary job
• Added Secretary specific perk Tidy
• Added new background music - Piecharts
• Added a Momma Bear head for employees
• Added new flooring - Wood planks and Beige panels
• Added new wallpapers - Sandstone brick, Temple brick and Wood plank texture
• Added new furniture - Green glass divider and Black counter table
• Fixed Workshop mods crashing the game when they weren't downloaded after subscribing to them

• Improved scripting support for mods
• Contract search failed email now suggests to improve relations with the client
• Disabled bankruptcy warning newspaper article for sandbox savegames that were started before before bankruptcy was enabled
• Fixed Self-managing perk interrupting work even when there's no need to assign people to a task

• Fixed some savegames not loading with the error message "n must be positive"
• Added looming bankruptcy articles to sandbox mode
• Added a bankruptcy game over dialog

Version 0.5.18 brings improvements for making bigger buildings that span multiple floors. The new Level 5 full size window panels make it possible to combine them into skyscraper-like glass walls. Changes:

• Improved window furniture rendering to enable various shapes of windows
• Added bigger Level 5 windows
• Made it easier to make smaller rooms than 2x2
• Enabled bankruptcy in sandbox mode (only affects new savegames)
• Improved mod support for adding new jobs
• Fixed the loyalty of CEO decreasing in some cases
• Fixed not being able to place furniture and blueprint on second floor if there was an employee downstairs on the same coordinates

• The tooltips in the change flooring dialog now show proper names of the choices
• Added a screen pan sensitivity slider to the controls settings
• Employee speech bubble now shows an icon when they're going home or want to go home
• Added job descriptions under the employee biographies in the CV browsing list
• Added a furniture repair button to the context menu
• Fixed the tombstone not being generated when an employee dies
• Fixed Paperwork Shredder mod freezing after long use

With the release of version 0.5.16 alpha Steam Workshop integration is now open for everyone! [previewyoutube=YoSyk0nDrAs;full][/previewyoutube] For starters a much requested Paperwork Shredder can be subscribed to. Hate all the paperwork piling up? You can now easily get rid of it with this mod! After subscribing to the mod in the Workshop you can enable it in the game Settings and Mods menu. If you're interested in creating and sharing your own mods check out our wiki for some instructions. A good place to get additional help is to ask in the #modding channel of our Discord. We're looking forward to seeing what the community can come up with!

Patch notes

• Added a stapler item
• Made red brick pillars placeable indoors so they don't block building expansion
• Made stacks of paper not block the path of employees
• Add multifloor support to all maps
• Lowered the price of additional lots in Tulev Street Office map
• New contracts are now expanded by default in Projects popup list
• Fixed spelling mistake in the "National debt doubled" newspaper article
• Fixed snowfall sprite glitch
• Fixed managers finding 2 contracts at a time in Tulev Street Office scenario
• Fixed game crashing when trying to upload a mod to Steam Workshop without selecting one first

• Steam Workshop integration

• Made it possible to buy furniture when clicking on it's image in the furniture popup
• Employees now complain when sick
• Added a hint in the context menu when a furniture item needs maintenance.
• Made printers break less often
• Made the whole text show up right away when the narration speech bubble is clicked
• Changed the remove building button text
• Fixed garbage being included when making blueprints
• Fixed tutorial getting stuck in a loop when searching for employees with a Self-managing perk
• Fixed the game crashing sometimes when the day changes
• Fixed music still playing when in global sound is set 0 in the settings menu

After long years of refinement, Office Management 101 has launched on Steam Early Access. Current version of Early Access ships with a short tutorial and a scenario map with defined goals to give you a direction. There are also additional sandbox maps where you can decide your own goals and build with more freedom. At the moment it is only possible to earn money through contract work for other companies. Designing and marketing your own products and competing with the other companies is not yet part of the current version, but it's one of the priorities for us to add that feature. Designing and decorating the offices is already possible, with more options for added and refined throughout the Early Access. Hiring and leveling employees is implemented for a small number of job types, but additional job types are planned, like . At launch the game is only available in English. We are hoping for community to give us a hand and help provide translation mods through the Steam Workshop. While Workshop support is not yet enabled, we're planning to put together a tutorial for modding and open up the Workshop access soon. We will be sharing a more thorough roadmap in the coming weeks. We're really looking forward to hearing what you think so far. There's still plenty work ahead, but guided by your feedback we are confident we can eventually proudly take the game over the finish line.

Hey all you aspiring business leaders! It's been a long road, but I'm finally reaching an important checkpoint by taking part of the Steam Next Fest starting from February 21st, 2022. A demo of Office Management 101 will be available for you all to play and I can't wait to hear your feedback about it! During the event I'll also broadcast two developer livestreams on our Steam page. Make sure you click the "Set a reminder" button so you get notified when it goes live! Click here for the Wednesday livestream event. I'm looking forward to hanging out and chatting with all of you! Best, Riho

Hey all you aspiring business leaders! It's been a long road, but I'm finally reaching an important checkpoint by taking part of the Steam Next Fest starting from February 21st, 2022. A demo of Office Management 101 will be available for you all to play and I can't wait to hear your feedback about it! During the event I'll also broadcast two developer livestreams on our Steam page. Make sure you click the "Set a reminder" button so you get notified when it goes live! Click here for the second livestream even taking place on Saturday. I'm looking forward to hanging out and chatting with all of you! Best, Riho