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Torn Companies are player owned entities that are made up of cooperative players. The owner is the director of the company: in charge of micromanaging every aspect of the company.

You must be at least level 3 to work in a company and at least level 10 to own one.

To withdraw a company application go to Preferences, and click the 'Management' tab where you will be able to cancel any outgoing applications.

Acquisition

There are two ways to acquire a company. You can startup a new company: paying the flat cost for just the bare bones with Default Settings.

Or you can obtain an established company from another player (either via direct transfer, or trade), where the established company can potentially come with employees, inventory (stock items and company vault), and/or upgrades.

  • Direct transfer - Gift the company to another employee (nuances unconfirmed)
  • Trade - Initiate a trade with an employee that has an Unassigned position, and zero pay.

Operation

To run a company, a director micromanages over every aspect of the company. They must:

  • hire player employees
    • assign employees to a position that's beneficial to the company
    • budget employee pay
    • train employees to increase their potential (+50 primary, +25 secondary)
  • manage goods
    • adjust the price of goods to maximize profit
    • order stock to replenish goods
  • budget advertising to attract more customers

All these aspects boil down to 3 types of measurements to check to see how well your company is doing: Popularity, Efficiency, and Environment

Popularity

Popularity is the percent of your weekly income compared to the highest weekly income of your company type, regardless of ratings.

I.E. If you make $5,000,000 compared to the best company which made $10,000,000, your popularity would be 50%. It's just a quick tool to see how you compare to other companies of that type, which will be useful for the new 10 star ranking system in the future. - Chedburn [1]

Efficiency

Efficiency is probably the most important bar to keep an eye on. This displays how efficient your employees are on average. Ideally, you would want to keep this at 100% as much as possible. The efficiency itself is capped at 100%. However, the true value may be above this if you have over-performing employees: potentially hiding the ineffectiveness of other employees.

Things that adversely affect an employee's efficiency are:

  • inactivity - solved by having them log in Torn at least once a day
  • drug addiction - solved through rehabilitation in Switzerland or other means

Environment

Environment is based on the size of the staff room and the number of employees. Drug users and inactive employees will lower your environment score. To compensate, buy bigger staff rooms or hire cleaners and managers, since a low environment score can lower income by up to a third.

Cleaners will boost environment more. Depending on how critical they are to the success of the company, they also might generate profit. The amount of environment that is boosted depends on the Cleaner's / Manager's effectiveness.

Having less employees than the staff room's capacity will increase your environment very slightly as they will have more space to work. Larger companies will struggle more to keep their environment score high, but it's not the end of the world if it drops slightly. You may find it's better to keep an employee in a vital job position rather than making up a few environment points by setting them to a cleaner or manager.

Special Positions

Special Positions are roles that are available to every single company that help boost an aspect of a company. They are positions to give the company a boost in areas that many not directly be related to the product the company is selling, but affect the employee, environment, or advertising instead.

These roles may also generate profit depending on the company.

Special Positions
Position Effect
Cleaner Helps keep your environment up
Manager Increases your employee effectiveness
Marketer Increases the effectiveness of your advertising budget
Secretary Shows you how much your employees are earning you in detail
Trainer Gives you extra trains

Company Ranking

The Company Ranking is a 10 star ranking system based on how well your company has been doing quantified by gross profits. In order to improve a company, you should strive for the best profits because profits only come by running a company efficiently. The company can only rank up to a certain cap depending on it's age: if the company is in operation for longer, it has the ability to gain a higher rank.

Company Ranking can effect how many job points are granted (1 job point per 1 star), and how many stats a company director gains. Company directors gain working stats based on how high the company has ranked:

  • 1 star - 5 units of every working stat daily
  • 2 stars - 10 units
  • 3 stars - 20 units
  • 4 stars - 35 units
  • 5+ stars - 50 units

Your employee pay does NOT affect your company's ability to star up (a common misconception).

Employee

When applying for a company, your Working Stats will help the director determine your position. The director of the company decides the amount of pay for each employee. All positions have different working stat requirements (primary and secondary) and will aid the company in different ways. The primary and secondary work stats are the stats which will help the company you join: the higher they are, the more effective you will be at that role i.e getting more customers, keeping the workplace clean, building hardware faster, etc. The secondary stat is half as influential as your primary stat at the rank.

While in a company, you exist. Your participation is automatically determined by other factors (work stats, drug addiction, and minimum daily activity). Most of the work is done on the director's side (see above).

Directors can train you to increase your work stats by 50 and 25 for your primary and secondary stat respectively. Job Specials and Director Trains will be locked for a newly hired employee for 3 days.

Job Specials

Job Specials are special abilities that can either be actively obtained (by spending Job Points obtained at Closing Hour), or passively used (no cost). To unlock the use of Job Specials, the company must reach the required level of stars in it's Company Ranking.

Energy-based Job Specials repeatability is limited to 100 uses per day

Closing Hour

At the end of the Company day (at approximately 6:00 PM TCT), the company's performance is calculated. This can be seen in the amount of customers that day and the amount of gross income made. At the same time, working stats gains are automatically applied, job points are granted (one point for every one star in Company Ranking), employee pay is automatically divvied out, and employee trains are generated to be used by the director. This operation can take up to 15 minutes before the results are reflected.

While an inactive employee is a big detriment to the company, the company can float by itself without an active director; the employee trains will just stack up to the cap, and not be distributed, and stocks can eventually run out.

Stocks & Education Affecting Companies

Director

The Stock Market has various stocks that can help a company director if a benefit block is held. The stocks that directly benefit companies are:

  • Tell Group Plc. (TGP) - gives you a significant boost in company advertising effectiveness.
  • TC Media Productions (TCP) - gives your company a 10% increase in profits.
  • Crude & Co. (CNC) - gives Oil Rig companies a profit boost (+25% profits).
  • Syscore MFG (SYS) - protects your company from being hacked by players with the Intricate Hack company benefit (good for companies that store a lot of money).

Below are stocks that can indirectly help a Director:

  • Messaging Inc. (MSG) - allows free advertisements in the newspaper which can help recruit employees.
  • Yazoo (YAZ) - gives free advertisement banners in the newspaper which can help recruit employees.

Education courses studied, besides the passive working stat gains from each course, also can have an effect on companies that you own (as a director). These include:

  • All Business Management courses in various ways.
    • BUS2200
      Statistics
      • Gain 2% productivity for your company
      • Gain 5 manual labor upon completion
      • Gain 60 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 25 endurance upon completion
      ,
      BUS2500
      Corporate Finance
      • Gain 2% productivity for your company
      • Gain 80 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 20 endurance upon completion
      ,
      BUS2800
      Logistics
      • Gain 2% productivity for your company
      • Gain 25 manual labor upon completion
      • Gain 50 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 15 endurance upon completion
      ,
      BUS2100
      Business Ethics
      • Gain 2% productivity for your company
      • Gain 60 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 15 endurance upon completion
      ,
      BUS2120
      E-Commerce
      • Gain 2% productivity for your company
      • Gain 50 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 40 endurance upon completion
      - Gain 2% productivity for your company
    • BUS2300
      Communication
      • Gain 5% employee effectiveness for your company
      • Gain 65 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 20 endurance upon completion
      - Gain 5% employee effectiveness for your company
    • BUS2400
      Marketing
      • Gain an increase in advertising effectiveness for your company
      • Gain 15 manual labor upon completion
      • Gain 75 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 15 endurance upon completion
      - Gain an increase in advertising effectiveness for your company
    • BUS2600
      Corporate Strategy
      • Gain 7% employee effectiveness for your company
      • Gain 95 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 10 endurance upon completion
      - Gain 7% employee effectiveness for your company
    • BUS2700
      Pricing Strategy
      • Gain the ability to increase product prices by 10% without losing customers
      • Gain 75 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 20 endurance upon completion
      - Gain the ability to increase product prices by 10% without losing customers
    • BUS2900
      Product Management
      • Gain the ability to increase product prices by 5% without losing customers
      • Gain 10 manual labor upon completion
      • Gain 60 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 15 endurance upon completion
      - Gain the ability to increase product prices by 5% without losing customers
    • BUS2110
      Human Resource Management
      • Gain a passive bonus to employee working stats in your company
      • Gain 20 manual labor upon completion
      • Gain 50 intelligence upon completion
      • Gain 15 endurance upon completion
      - Gain a passive bonus to employee working stats in your company
    • BUS3130
      Bachelor of Commerce
      • Unlock new size, storage size & staff room upgrades for your company
      • Gain 100 intelligence upon completion
      - Unlock new size, storage size & staff room upgrades for purchase
  • The course
    MTH2280
    Probability
    • Gain 1% productivity for your company
    • Gain 75 intelligence upon completion
    • Gain 20 endurance upon completion
    helps increase company productivity by 1%.
  • The course
    LAW2100
    Media Law
    • Gain an increase in advertising effectiveness for your company
    • Gain 85 intelligence upon completion
    • Gain 20 endurance upon completion
    gain an increase in advertising effectiveness for your company

Employee

As an employee, completing Education courses can grant you various amounts of Work Stats. You can increase how quickly you complete Education courses via:

Upgrades

Companies have various Upgrades that can be applied to help the company work faster.

Company Size

Company size upgrades increase the number of employees your company can hold. Each upgrade costs an additional 10% of the initial startup costs and increases the number of employees you can hold by 25% with each upgrade. The final two company size upgrades are only available if the company director has completed

BUS3130
Bachelor of Commerce
  • Unlock new size, storage size & staff room upgrades for your company
  • Gain 100 intelligence upon completion


Company Size Upgrades
Company Size Company Cost
Starting Size Start up cost
125% starting size 10% of company start-up cost
150% starting size 20% of company start-up cost
175% starting size 30% of company start-up cost
200% starting size 40% of company start-up cost
225% starting size 50% of company start-up cost
250% starting size 60% of company start-up cost

Staff Room

Staff Room upgrades help keep your environment at 100%. You need larger staff rooms when you have more employees. The final two staff room upgrades are only available if the company director has completed

BUS3130
Bachelor of Commerce
  • Unlock new size, storage size & staff room upgrades for your company
  • Gain 100 intelligence upon completion
Staff Room Upgrades
Size Cost
No Staff Room -
Small Staff Room 2.5% of company start-up cost
Standard Staff Room 5% of company start-up cost
Large Staff Room 7.5% of company start-up cost
Very Large Staff Room 10% of company start-up cost
Huge Staff Room 12.5% of company start-up cost
Colossal Staff Room 15% of company start-up cost

Warehouse

Warehouses hold inventory. Not all companies need warehouses and the number of items a warehouse can hold depends on the company.

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Historical Notes

  • Prior to the update on 27/01/2014 advertising costs used to be divided between 'cheap' 'standard' and 'expensive' advertising costs. The respective costs of which would be that of half, equivalent or double that of their respective companies or free if the director had a stock benefit in TGP. The advertising would last for a single week at which point it would have to be re-initiated at the same costs. The purpose of advertising was to increase popularity which caused an increase in profit. Popularity now is merely a marker of performance and has no direct influence on income.
  • Prior to the Jan/2014 update, company owners also had to use the 1-5 daily trains (based on company stars) to prevent Efficiency from dropping. Reportedly this is no longer the case. This makes some sense since subsequent to the update, a company can now save up to 20 trains. The company earns trains daily equal to the stars of the company IE a 1* company will get 1 train per day while a 5* will get 5 trains per day. This can be increased by appointing some employees as Trainers.
  • Along with medical 2.0 update on the 25th Feb 2015 it was announced by Ched that five and ten star companies will be added in the upcoming weeks.
  • As per Chedburn's bulletin the Private Security Firm bonus 'Regulation' was announced to be changed from 10% to 25%.
  • As per Chedburn's comment Job Point limits are now 'per torn day' as opposed to 24 hours.

See Also