I love the game and I've been playing it for a while though I figured its kind of an issue that you can't tell people where they are supposed to work . When I play on the map with multiple islands and I get to the Landing Pad I start to focus on mass farming things so i can get to a point where I'd be sure that I unlocked everything. I finished the stone farm but soon noticed my people that were supposed to live near it went through their Teleporters to work on the opposite side of the map at a mass food farm. In conclusion I think it would make getting resources a lot more efficient if you could tell houses where their people are supposed work because right now the job priority thing doesn't really work too great. Or you could also add advanced variants of every workplace that can house their workers at their work place.
I agree that this could be better, but I don't have an idea how to do this intuitively right now. But maybe I'll figure something out!