The drastic transformations of the world of work affect all spheres of life. Growing competition tends to erode moral values as well as personal and spiritual integrity, instability and insecurity of working conditions negatively affect working motivations as does the ever greater trend to technological innovation makes human know-how superfluous replacing it through machines. This leads explicitly or implicitly to a questioning of the meaning of work. The Jesuit and paleontologist P. Teilhard de Chardin asked questions regarding the meaning of work more than a century ago. He warned that a strike in what he called the noosphere might a la longue affect the motivation of humans to work. In in a universe void of sense (telos) human activity becomes precarious, since it is anchored in the belief that life has an ultimate (individual) meaning. It is not primarily material energy which motivates men and women to act but trust and love. They are the basis for a mental framework which makes human progress possible.