Going to work in Inzoi is automatic once your Zoi holds a job: when the shift on the phone’s schedule starts, the Zoi leaves for the workplace on their own, and for an active career you follow them inside and complete tasks until the shift ends. Since the April 2026 career overhaul, showing up late is marked as tardy or absent and hurts your evaluation, so the real job is getting them out of the door on time. This guide covers how the commute works now, the difference between active and rabbit hole careers, leave and remote work, and what gets a Zoi fired.
Getting a Job First
Your Zoi needs a position before any of this applies. Open the smartphone with P and use the career app to browse listings; our guide to getting a job covers the full application flow. Two things changed with the v0.8.0 update on April 29, 2026:
- The careers added in that patch (Researcher, IT Developer, Architect, Music Producer and Journalist in Dowon and Bliss Bay, Travel Agent in Cahaya) require an interview first. The interview appears on the calendar as a highlighted social event, and your Zoi has to impress the interviewer before work begins.
- School, career and business are now separate categories. One Zoi can hold all three as long as the hours do not overlap, and the game prioritises them in the order school, then career, then business. The Zoi Card shows which category your Zoi is in, including a freelance label.
Saves from before that update had their old career data converted automatically, per the developer, so a Zoi hired in 2025 keeps their position.
Active Careers Versus Rabbit Holes
The game still runs two kinds of workplace.
- Active careers load the office as a real property. You control your Zoi during the shift, pick up tasks, talk to co-workers and, since v0.8.0, join team projects that run from day one to day four. Your contribution at the end of the project sets the grade and reward. Career missions and social event missions now share a single window (added in v0.9.0), so check it at the start of each shift.
- Rabbit hole careers hide the workplace. The Zoi disappears at shift start and returns at shift end with their needs kept at a sensible level, a change made in v0.4.0 so they do not come home starving. The v0.4.0 patch notes also added 144 rabbit hole career opportunity cards and a “Side Job” rabbit hole event for quick cash.
Whichever kind you have, salary is paid daily since v0.8.0, so a missed day is visible in the balance immediately.
The Commute, Step by Step
- Check the shift on the phone schedule the evening before and top up Hunger, Hygiene and Energy. Wants at work were retuned in v0.9.0 to fit the job, so a rested Zoi will mostly do the right things on their own.
- When the shift time arrives, the Zoi heads out. If you want to skip the walk, enable Skip to Schedule Event Location under Game Options > Gameplay (added in v0.4.0). Selecting a distant destination manually also triggers a teleport pop-up since v0.8.0, and that pop-up can be disabled in the same options menu.
- If the household owns a car, any family member can drive it since v0.9.0, so a Zoi without their own vehicle can still commute by road. Our driving guide covers controls.
- Arrive before the shift starts. Lateness is logged as tardy or absent under the current rules and lowers the evaluation that decides promotions. See how to get promoted for what a good evaluation buys you.
- For active careers, after-work missions were added in v0.8.0, so a shift can end with an errand or a social task rather than a straight walk home.
Acquaintances now text your Zoi about their job (a v0.4.0 addition), which is a handy reminder that a shift is coming up.
Leave, Remote Work and Getting Fired
The overhaul added the office politics the launch build lacked.
- Paid leave, sick leave and remote work are requested on a computer. The number of leave days depends on the Zoi’s position, and companies occasionally grant company-wide holidays or assign overtime.
- Poor performance can now get a Zoi fired, and a fired or resigning Zoi receives severance pay.
- Retirement unlocks after enough time at a company. Announcing it triggers a retirement party social event, and a retired Zoi becomes eligible for pension payments. If you would rather keep working forever, our guide to stopping aging explains the cheat route.
- Freelance is the alternative to a fixed schedule: obtain a licence on the computer, then take delivery, creative or publishing jobs from a dedicated phone app at your own pace.
The full career and money set lives on the Inzoi hub.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why did my Zoi not go to work? The most common causes are an overlapping school or business schedule (school always wins), a leave day you forgot, or a need so low that the Zoi refuses to move. Check the calendar first.
Can I follow my Zoi into a rabbit hole job? No. Rabbit hole careers hide the workplace by design. If you want to play the shift, apply for one of the active careers instead.
How do I skip the commute? Turn on Skip to Schedule Event Location in Game Options > Gameplay. Scheduled shifts then teleport the Zoi to the workplace at the start time.
Does being late actually matter? Yes, as of the v0.8.0 update. Late arrivals are recorded as tardy or absent, drag down the evaluation, and repeated poor evaluations can end in dismissal.
Can a teenager go to work? The developer has said it is considering careers from adolescence through old age, but as of the current build teenagers are routed into school, which takes priority over any other schedule.