i played for like an hour but my guys just took a break? the machine and the robot were by the dog house, dude just chilling on a bench with something like "no more text to add". i refreshed and it deleted my progress. got me playing for a bit though, couldn't figure out how to get them back to work.
we are adding more instructions to some of the mechanics that are already on the dev builds but not in this one, sorry for that, to make your workers go back to work you have to click them til they go back to it, if they need their salaries, there should be a text saying "pay salary" next to the "help" tab, you have to click the icon to pay the salary, if you have the money, if they are chilling on the bench u probably click the "rest" button that make them rest (is the white button on the left of the top tab, sometimes its hidden u have to click the left of the upper tab to show it) u will have to click it again to make them go back to work. Sorry for the cofusion this is the beta version of the game and we are implementing all the features to make players better understand the mechanics, thanks for your feedback!