# Jobs vs Roles - could work be managed very differently? By:: [[Steven Denman]] 2023-06-12 There is a huge difference in how people think about staffing home projects and how large corporations staff teams. When I think about a home project, it is a time/sweat vs. buy decision, but I would never hire an electrician part-time to mozy around my house every day looking for work to do that fits their job description. At the scale of a large corporation, there are certain functions (e.g., IT or possibly legal) where contract and project-specific labor are typical. Still, otherwise, people are hired into jobs. In my experience, it is viewed as bad if a project-based role is hired. That makes sense under one way of thinking: "People should have jobs where they own and are accountable for something." Specialists only exist in certain fields under this approach, and start-ups get the best talent for more specialized folks in common commercial roles, such as marketing. Is there a world where the best generalist employees and administrators primarily manage the system, the hub of content and development, information and history management, and the needed interconnection between teams and functions? Then, are all primary work and development handled as time-bound projects with specific teams and goals and some freedom? Are the requirements for these teams to get the right people, for the right amount of time, to solve the problem, to make sure it pipes into the existing system, and to document learning and new ideas? #### Related Items [[Work]] [[Management]] [[Project Management]] [[Hiring]] [[Organization]] [[Organizational Analytics]] [[Learning]]