Large corporations have this sort of structure where you're a node in a graph performing a niche service(s) in a series of steps where there are dependencies and you are also a dependency for later stage services. Working every second of the day and working really hard, doesn't actually do anything since you're just one cell in a slime mold. Rather, you wait for another node to deliver some sort of task, do your part on it, and send it further off in the appropriate direction. The most meaningful parameter here is time. A soul being in the right time and place, filling a spot, communicating and working on the right thing at the right time. Sure you can fill the rest of the time if you wish or for political reasons but the important stuff happens at unpredictable timing and often isn't very abstract, only specific.