Often one ant is a supervisor - his role is to guide and direct, so he still makes his own contribution!

https://supersimple.com/article/ants-the-power-of-cooperation/

Find some ants outside and watch them. Put a couple of crumbs of food down for them and see what they do. When a worker ant finds some food, she takes a piece back to the nest, leaving an invisible trail that the other workers can smell. They follow the trail to the food and help collect it too.

Ants teach other ants how to find food using a poking and prodding technique called "tandem running," a new study reveals.
Ants work together and use their combined strength to move things around and come together to defend their nests against common enemies.

They work together as a team because they know that working together will give better results than working as individuals.

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