If this one recalls, they mentioned that functionality was being looked at for thralls when golems released.

That said, this one still thinks a good compromise of verisimilitude and server performance would be to have a lumber mill, a quarry, ect as a placeable structure.
A taskmaster could be set there to direct the slaves.
The slave you place in the raw material producer is then consumed as fuel to turn into harvestable goods (in game, they are being worked to death/broken state where they are no longer useful). Higher tier slaves last longer, taskmasters improve the yield.

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