Non-project work

How do you call work or activities that are not done as a project?

Examples

Name	Notes
Area	This is the first A in PARA from Building a Second Brain
Business as Usual - BAU	[1]
Continuous activities	Source: Quora
Department - Afdeling	Like the department of a company. Seems to fit at times and to completely not fit at other times
Going concern	Sounds like a bookkeeping term, but is quite apt. How does the abbreviation GC look like?
Non-project work	Description, rather than a name. And quite an ugly one [2]
Ongoing processes	[3]
Operations	Maybe this is it - Quite simple source
Operationals	Worse than Operations
Operational activities	Let's a description, not really a useful or attractive name
Retainer	Source

I'm undecided about what term to use. My top-3:

I think that it depends on the context what is the best term ⇒ Let go of it: Use whatever fits the situation and time will tell what it will be.

Names for both these kinds together, aren't that difficult to find:

It seems that projects usually live within operations in an hierarchical way
Maybe incorporate such a hierarchical relation in TaskAlot?
Operations can have loose non-project tasks. Actually, they can have a lot of it. Changes are, that within most operations most work is done outsides of projects. E.g. in the finance department of a company, there may rarely be projects (maybe once a decade when changing software and once a year to organise the department's party and maybe once a year to create the annual financial report)

Are there 'loose tasks' outside operations?

I have the impression that in practice, tasks always belong to an operation
Example: Within a government, there are a bunch of departments. The department of the prime minister is called (In NL) something like general business (algemene zaken). I think that any task that doesn't fit anywhere else, automatically ends up at this department
I can't find an example of a recent task that I did for a customer, that didn't fit in a operation
The most unusual task I recently did for a customer: A customer asked me for the invoiced amount over the last couple of years (they needed an estimate of the value of their IP and this was how they would estimate it). I think I would have filed it under Coordination, simply because there was no more obvious place - And that was just fine.