Ideas
I am experiencing this issue on xbox with the newest patch (Nov 4 2025) installed. It has presented itself in two different ways, with two different households in my rotational save. The first instance took place when a Culinary career sim went to work from a community lot. After the loading screen, I was brought back home like normal, but the sim I sent to work was paid $1 and loaded at his home lot with no option to click the "Go to Work" button on the career screen. I guess the game counted the day as finished. The second instance was with a tech guru career sim. I sent them to work successfully, but after about four hours decided to visit a gym lot with that sim's husband (alone, I selected no other sims). After the loading screen, I was paid out as if the tech guru finished his day, but it was 4 hours too early. In this situation, the sim who was supposed to be at work didn't spawn on the community lot. They simply were available to call to the locale from home. Again with no ability to click "Go to Work"