Make idle workers (especially farmers) join the labor pool

[frontiersman]

Title says it all. Nothing more frustrating than farmers sitting around all winter, traders at the trading post, etc. Bonus points if there’s a “national guard” option where you can choose whether to have idle guards & soldiers work or stand at the ready in garrison.

I know this is not a new idea. My search resulted in at least 7 other topics with this. BUT, many of them were included in the anthology-style “1 million hours, here are my top 100 suggestions” type of posts, and I had not seen any mention of this as something being worked on in the last update, so I thought I would just simply make a 1-thread request

General Feedback after 63 hours
1. Warehouses 2. Idle Workers 3. Production Limits 4. Clear 5. Farms
Idle farmers do menial labour?
Wandering Unable to Work
Couple suggestions after 60 hours of play
Idle workers go into the Labour Pool
Idea collection

[ReconJack85]

This is a wonderful idea, having the ability to click on a worker of any type and check or uncheck a setting that says “assist labor/builder pool when idle”. There’s times I can see when certain people like soldiers may not benefit from being dragged away from their post to labor all of a sudden an attack happens. But the option would be nice.