Worker cooperatives tend have the problem that it's hard to compare contributions of labour. The coop model tends to work best when most or all the workers are

Worker cooperatives tend have the problem that it's hard to compare contributions of labour. The coop model tends to work best when most or all the workers are of a similar sort. More cohesion and less resentment that way. That's probably why the company has everyone do every job. Specialists are hard to employ like that, but the trick is that you don't need to hire them. Rather than keeping an accountant in house, you can just contract an accounting firm to handle it. You might not have an in-house lawyer, but you'll be a client for a law firm. That being said, there may be some soul searching when Jim the Janitor complains he's basically a second-class employee because technically he just works for the company you're leasing the building from.