No Option to Work from Home After Patch

Question

My Meme Maker sim can no longer work from home after the last patch - she finished the work from home that had been saved before the patch, had her current child age up to toddler, gave birth to new child, came home and was forced to go into work when the work day started with no pop-up work from home option or the one from the phone menu.

Mods are all turned off and removed from the game (tried bringing back the updated ones as well just to see if that fixed it by some miracle but no)

Its not the end of the world, but it certainly is annoying

crinrict · Answer

Try resetting your user files as described in the factory reset described in this post: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4/FAQ-Troubleshooting-Steps-amp-Known-Issues/m-p/3621199

You won't loose anything. Just make sure to not delete any files &nbsp;and make a backup.

Try on a new game with nothing added back first (start new game). If it works, put back your save game and try again. If it still works, you can start putting stuff back.

Options.ini (or just re-set all your settings manually)
Tray Folder
Screenshots/Videos/Custom music
Rest of the save games (leave out slot_00000001.save which is the autosave)
Custom content like clothing, hair, skins, make up ....
Mods (one by one, making sure they all still work)

The rest does not need putting back, cause they are mostly cache files that recreate or log files that are not needed for the game.&nbsp;

crinrict · Answer

Tagging&nbsp;@edense&nbsp;for feedback

valerier17 · Answer

So I keep having trouble allowing my sims to work from home in the city living expansion pack. No cell notification to ask if I want to work from home and the option never appears on the sims cell. What do I do? No mods or nothing has been done before.

crinrict · Answer

Try resetting your user files as described in the factory reset described in this post: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4/FAQ-Troubleshooting-Steps-amp-Known-Issues/m-p/3621199

You won't loose anything. Just make sure to not delete any files &nbsp;and make a backup.

Try on a new game with nothing added back first (start new game). If it works, put back your save game and try again. If it still works, you can start putting stuff back.

Options.ini (or just re-set all your settings manually)
Tray Folder
Screenshots/Videos/Custom music
Rest of the save games (leave out slot_00000001.save which is the autosave)
Custom content like clothing, hair, skins, make up ....
Mods (one by one, making sure they all still work)

The rest does not need putting back, cause they are mostly cache files that recreate or log files that are not needed for the game.&nbsp;

edense · Answer

I had thought the issue was fixed after removing my cache files - but it later returned when my sim had her next kid. Rather than being an issue with mods or bad cache files, it seems to be linked to the ability to take family leave - even if you don't actually take the family leave, it disables the option to work from home (but not go into the office) until the family leave time frame ends.

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