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This paper proposes to address the problem of work organization design in human-machine systems with the help of multiagent systems techniques. The organization, defined as the structure supporting tasks attribution, coordination and communication, is the subject of many studies in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). Three organization modes are presented. These modes are seen as foundations on which a global organization including humans and intelligent machines can be built, with some restrictions due to the characteristics of humans. Althought its simplifying aspect, this could be a step toward the application of multiagent concepts to address some of the humans-machines cooperation problems.