Findings of a three-year project carried out by the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service of Ohio State University indicated that area agent staffing in Extension may result in professional workers being more satisfied with their jobs and feeling more meaningfully involved in the organizational hierarchy. The role conflict that might be expected when a new role is introduced may not occur. Of the two major area staffing patterns in use in the United States, the better rated was the pattern that included three separate levels of workers--county, area, and State. The lower rated pattern involved workers at two levels only--multi-county and State. The county-only pattern was not rated poorly. In several ways it was rated by clientele as better than either area staffing pattern. County-only staffing pattern clientele were more satisfied with programing processes, with speed of response to requests for information, and with the helpfulness of the information they received from Extension. Statistical data are analyzed in tabular form and in the text. (Author/MDW)