To assign a bed in Schedule I, place the bed at a property you own, then open your Management Clipboard, select the employee, and choose the bed assignment option at the top of their management tab. Beds are sold at Dan’s Hardware for $150.
The step people miss is that the bed is not only somewhere to sleep. It is also where that employee’s wages are stored, and an unpaid employee stops working entirely.
Buy the Bed First
Every employee you hire needs their own bed before they will do a single shift. Buy beds from Dan’s Hardware and place them at the property where that employee works. A botanist running your grow house needs a bed in that grow house, not across town.
Place beds the same way you place any other object you own at a property. The bed does not need to be in a bedroom or any particular room type. It needs to exist, be inside the property, and be reachable.
Assign It With the Management Clipboard
The clipboard is the tool that does all employee management, and it is the part that is easiest to overlook.
- Equip the Management Clipboard from your hotbar.
- Point at the employee you want to assign and interact with them.
- Their management tab opens, with bed assignment as the first option.
- Select the bed you placed.
Once assigned, that bed belongs to that employee. Two employees cannot share one, so the number of beds you can fit in a property is a hard cap on how many staff that property supports.
The Bed Is Also the Payroll
This is the mechanic behind most “my employees stopped working” confusion. Each employee has a suitcase associated with their bed, and their daily wage of $200 is drawn from it. If there is not enough money in that suitcase when the day rolls over, the employee simply will not work.
So the routine is: assign the bed, then keep the bed funded. An employee standing idle in a fully stocked grow house is almost always a payroll problem rather than a bug or a bad assignment.
Player reports also describe an employee who gets genuinely stuck being knocked out, then returning to work at the start of the next day. Treat that as a last resort rather than a routine fix.
Tips Most Players Miss
- Fund several days at once. Topping up every suitcase every morning is the most tedious loop in the game, and there is no reason to do it daily.
- Count beds before you hire. Hiring an employee you have nowhere to house just creates a problem you then have to solve.
- Keep each property self-contained. Beds, storage, and stations at the same site cut the walking time your staff spend doing nothing.
Staffing is the point where the game stops being about your own eight inventory slots, covered in our guide on opening your inventory, and starts being about throughput. Once the grow side runs itself the bottleneck moves to sales, which is where choosing customers for your dealers matters. Our full Schedule 1 guides cover the rest of the chain.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do you buy beds in Schedule 1? Dan’s Hardware sells them for $150 each.
Why won’t my employee work even though they have a bed? Their wage almost certainly is not funded. Each employee draws $200 a day from the suitcase at their bed, and they stop working when it runs dry.
Can two employees share a bed? No. Each employee needs their own, which makes bed space the real limit on how many staff a property can hold.
Do employees need a bed at the property they work in? Yes. Assign the bed at the site where that employee is meant to be working.