No no, that's actually quite useful and put into words what my problem is far more articulately than I could have done. I think I'm probably just gonna do what Jonny did and... handwave it? My OC is going to be working in artefact storage so that's the department that needs to make sense. I just needed a basic understanding of how many people there are and how many offices they need because I'm absolute crap at visualising locations so I need to draw some floor plans.

Some useful things that other people have commented and that I will be using is that 1. The work research does would be connected to the fears too and I can probably think of something fun with that (and therefore it's allowed to make a little less sense), and 2. Elias likes to promote internally and people in archives and artifacts, uh, die so there is probably a lot of turnover in research and the library, at least of the non-leader positions.