Digital transformations have gone in the direction of flexibility, of agile work, of a new vision of work that in some cases creates a hybrid model. "In 2018 there were 480 thousand 'agile' workers in our country out of a total of about 23 million workers (INPS data): this means that only 2% of workers were operating in a condition approaching the concept of Smart Working" (Pesenti, Scansani, 2021, p. 24). Undoubtedly the pandemic has been an accelerator in this sense, and while it is true that during the pandemic period there were between 4 and 8 million remote workers, there has been and remains a cultural and organisational resistance that does not give hope for a total transition; rather, there has been a return to classic models even for those jobs that could have continued 'remotely'. But that is not all. Because it is precisely in this groove that a particular hybridisation is taking shape: shelling work. This is how we define any work that, as a result of an evolution, transformation, hybridisation, reacquires its original characters not in a total manner. From the fruit of making (poiein), as with the fruit of the pomegranate, some part is removed (shelled). This is the first image. The second, on the other hand, finds reference in photography to grainy images; the reasons for this almost always relate to poor lighting conditions. Thus, a grainy work, because it is transformed and at times incomplete, is conditioned by the shadows rather than the light, by the stretches of opacity that constitute its new character, by the as yet unrefined definition of each individual portion. In fact, this represents the start and construction of a new pedagogical model of work to reflect upon.