This brief overview of differing theories concerning the nature and value of work can now provide us with a helpful way to conceptualize the ethical responsibilities that business has to make work meaningful. The classical model would argue that, to the degree that work is necessary and physical, work can¬not be made meaningful and therefore employers have little responsibility to make it so. To the degree that work can be intellectual, leisurely, and free, work can be meaningful; but it would be unlikely that employment and wage labor can ever attain these conditions.