Work while exploring?

Why can't we send monsters to work while one is out exploring? If I can't use my ticks for work my workers feel kinda useless. I certainly don't want to have to make the long haul back to a town just to click a work button and have to go back to where my fighter needs to be. I'm hoping I've missed something here. This must have come up before but I couldn't find a topic, sorry if I'm repeating.

I think you can do it if you click the locale button, and then clicking explore will let you go back and pick your exploring monsters again. I've done that before, when someone turned off my computer which I had been leaving on for the sake of downloading/not losing where I was at in MonBre, and I think it doesn't affect your exploring at all.

It's been a while though, so my memory may not be 100% right.

Edit: You should be able to do it if you open up the forums then go to locale. My bad, but yeah, that seems like it works.

Edit edit: Yeah, nevermind. I tried to actually go to home/locale and both brought me back to the exploring screen.