npcs waiting outside lot

groups of NPCs wait outside my sims home lot and stay there without moving, preventing the super speed from activating during sleep and work hours. I have tried using the send home action and using the reset debug cheat but neither of them are working. I used a workaround I saw from a previous post a few years ago, creating a group and travelling to a different lot and then disbanding and returning home, but it is inconvenient to do multiple times a session