diff --git a/crates/bevy_tasks/src/task_pool.rs b/crates/bevy_tasks/src/task_pool.rs
index c517ae245abed..47890a3adc50e 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_tasks/src/task_pool.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_tasks/src/task_pool.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 use std::{
     future::Future,
     mem,
-    pin::Pin,
     sync::Arc,
     thread::{self, JoinHandle},
 };
 
-use futures_lite::{future, pin, FutureExt};
+use futures_lite::{future, FutureExt};
 
 use crate::{Task, TaskGroup};
 
@@ -303,8 +302,13 @@ impl TaskPool {
                 let shutdown_rx = shutdown_rx.clone();
                 make_thread_builder(&builder, "Compute", i)
                     .spawn(move || {
+                        let future = async {
+                            loop {
+                                compute.tick().await;
+                            }
+                        };
                         // Use unwrap_err because we expect a Closed error
-                        future::block_on(compute.run(shutdown_rx.recv())).unwrap_err();
+                        future::block_on(shutdown_rx.recv().or(future)).unwrap_err();
                     })
                     .expect("Failed to spawn thread.")
             })
@@ -322,7 +326,7 @@ impl TaskPool {
                             }
                         };
                         // Use unwrap_err because we expect a Closed error
-                        future::block_on(future.or(shutdown_rx.recv())).unwrap_err();
+                        future::block_on(shutdown_rx.recv().or(future)).unwrap_err();
                     })
                     .expect("Failed to spawn thread.")
             })
@@ -341,7 +345,7 @@ impl TaskPool {
                             }
                         };
                         // Use unwrap_err because we expect a Closed error
-                        future::block_on(future.or(shutdown_rx.recv())).unwrap_err();
+                        future::block_on(shutdown_rx.recv().or(future)).unwrap_err();
                     })
                     .expect("Failed to spawn thread.")
             })
@@ -436,12 +440,8 @@ impl TaskPool {
 
             f(&mut scope);
 
-            if scope.spawned.is_empty() {
-                Vec::default()
-            } else if scope.spawned.len() == 1 {
-                vec![future::block_on(&mut scope.spawned[0])]
-            } else {
-                let fut = async move {
+            future::block_on(async move {
+                let get_results = async move {
                     let mut results = Vec::with_capacity(scope.spawned.len());
                     for task in scope.spawned {
                         results.push(task.await);
@@ -450,32 +450,14 @@ impl TaskPool {
                     results
                 };
 
-                // Pin the futures on the stack.
-                pin!(fut);
-
-                // SAFETY: This function blocks until all futures complete, so we do not read/write
-                // the data from futures outside of the 'scope lifetime. However,
-                // rust has no way of knowing this so we must convert to 'static
-                // here to appease the compiler as it is unable to validate safety.
-                let fut: Pin<&mut (dyn Future<Output = Vec<T>>)> = fut;
-                let fut: Pin<&'static mut (dyn Future<Output = Vec<T>> + 'static)> =
-                    unsafe { mem::transmute(fut) };
-
-                // The thread that calls scope() will participate in driving tasks in the pool
-                // forward until the tasks that are spawned by this scope() call
-                // complete. (If the caller of scope() happens to be a thread in
-                // this thread pool, and we only have one thread in the pool, then
-                // simply calling future::block_on(spawned) would deadlock.)
-                let mut spawned = local_executor.spawn(fut);
-                loop {
-                    if let Some(result) = future::block_on(future::poll_once(&mut spawned)) {
-                        break result;
-                    };
-
-                    executor.try_tick();
-                    local_executor.try_tick();
-                }
-            }
+                let tick_forever = async move {
+                    loop {
+                        local_executor.tick().or(executor.tick()).await;
+                    }
+                };
+
+                get_results.or(tick_forever).await
+            })
         })
     }