What is going on with the automated job assignments?

[Cronos988]

The way the game decides what jobs to work is just weird. One would assume it tries to balance your economy, but it doesn't seem to. I just built an EC district and even though I had a positive EC income, the AI shifted three pops from food to EC, causing my food production to go into the red.

Has anyone figured out what the automated system is trying to do?

 

[meiam89.]

Pop will always go to job they have bonus toward, I think job also have some sort of priority, but that doesn't seem to be really working as intended.

 

[Cronos988]

Pop will always go to job they have bonus toward, I think job also have some sort of priority, but that doesn't seem to be really working as intended.

Oh, right, that would be it. Still rather crude.

It seems pops have a preference towards higher Level jobs. If you build a refinery, pops will switch out of districts and into the refinery. Perhaps buildings in general outrank districts, that would explain why maintenance pops are never shifted to districts, even though that's usually beneficial.