Headquarters

Your headquarters holds a department for each executive function. Each one exists to do at group level what would otherwise be done firm by firm.

CEO’s Office

In a game with inflation enabled, the CEO’s office can automatically adjust product prices and advertising budgets to keep pace with it — so you are not repricing by hand every year.

The CEO's office with the automatic inflation adjustment options

Chief Technical Officer’s Office

Acquire technologies from other companies. The CEO’s office offers the same option, so a CTO is not required for it.

The CTO's office, where technologies are acquired from other companies

Chief Marketing Officer’s Office

Set a new advertising budget across all your advertising units at once, or across a selection of them — rather than one at a time.

The CMO's office, setting advertising budgets across many units at once

Real Estate Department

Two options:

Auto Manage Apartments
Auto Manage Commercial Buildings

Enabled, the computer manages every apartment or commercial building the corporation owns, setting rents from the HQ settings instead of leaving you to price each building individually.

The Real Estate department with its auto-manage options

Human Resources Department

Adjust training levels for all your firms, or for a selection of them.

The HR department, setting training levels across firms

You can also run an intensive training program to raise the productivity of all your employees.

The intensive training program in the HR department

With the Digital Age DLC enabled, HR can also adjust team lead salaries regularly in line with inflation.

The HR department with the View Talents button

View Talents

The View Talents button shows the talent available in each city — which is what you want to know before deciding where to build an R&D center or a software company, not after.

The talent list, comparing available talent city by city

Public Relations Department

The Public Relations department and its budget

Only worth funding under a Corporate Brand strategy. That strategy is what public relations effort feeds into — a budget here supports it directly.

Investor Relations Department

Funds allocated here can improve your company’s stock performance.

The Investor Relations department and its budget

Community Engagement Department

Set a budget for ongoing civic donations, as a percentage of operating profit.

The Community Engagement department, setting civic donations as a share of profit

Figure	What it measures
Lifetime civic donations	Cumulative donations towards civic building construction and running costs.
Lifetime donations as a % of lifetime operating profit	The same total, against the company’s whole-history pre-tax operating profit.
Ongoing donations as a % of operating profit	Continuing support for the running costs of civic buildings you funded, against pre-tax operating profit.

HQ department display mode

Departments are shown as icons. Click the view mode icon at the bottom right of the 3×3 layout area to switch to text.