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Work song
A work song is a song sung to pace, coordinate, or accompany physical labor, keeping workers in rhythm and easing tedium, from field hollers to sea shanties.
Work spouse
Work spouse (work wife, work husband): a close, platonic, emotionally intimate bond with a coworker resembling marriage without romance; studied academically since McBride and Bergen's 2015 survey of 269 participants, with about a third of U.S. workers reporting one.
Work stealing
Work stealing is a load-balancing scheduling strategy for parallel computing in which idle processors take queued tasks from busy processors, reducing overhead compared with work sharing.
Work-class ROV
A work-class ROV is a heavy tethered underwater robot controlled from a surface vessel, used for subsea construction, drilling support, and pipeline repair at depths up to about 3 km.
Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance (WLB) is the state of engaging effectively in both work and nonwork life with minimal conflict between their social roles, linked to job satisfaction, performance, and well-being.
Work-to-rule
Work-to-rule, also known as the Italian strike or white strike, is industrial action in which employees do exactly what contracts and rules state, slowing production without walking off the job.
Work–energy theorem
The work–energy theorem states that the net work done on a particle equals the change in its kinetic energy, W = ΔK, and holds for constant or variable forces.
Work–life interface
The work–life interface is the relationship between a person's work and nonwork domains, studied through work–family conflict, work–family enrichment, and work–life balance, with long hours and blurred remote-work boundaries linked to poorer balance.
Workaholics
Workaholics is an American Comedy Central sitcom (2011-2017, 7 seasons, 86 episodes) created by and starring Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, and Anders Holm with Kyle Newacheck, about telemarketer roommates; adapted from the web series 5th Year by Mail Order Comedy.
Workato
Workato is a US enterprise automation and iPaaS company founded in 2013 by Vijay Tella and others, known for its recipe-based workflows, repeated Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader placements, $415M funding, and Enterprise MCP for AI agents.
Workday
Workday is an American enterprise cloud software company, co-founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, that sells human capital management and financial applications on subscription from Pleasanton, California.
Workday, Inc.
Workday, Inc. is an American enterprise software company headquartered in Pleasanton, California, founded in 2005 by Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield, selling cloud-based HR and finance applications.
Worker bee
A worker bee is a non-reproductive female honey bee that performs nearly all of a colony's work, from brood rearing and comb building to defense and foraging.
Worker cooperative
A worker cooperative, also called a worker co-op, is a firm owned and democratically governed by its workers, with one-person-one-vote elections and earnings allocated by work rather than capital investment.
Worker placement game
A worker placement game is a board game genre in which players place a limited pool of workers on shared action spaces, with Caylus (2005) and Agricola (2007) defining titles.
Worker policing
Worker policing: eusocial insect workers kill worker-laid eggs or attack reproductive nestmates to enforce queen reproduction. Documented in Apis honeybees, Vespula vulgaris, ants, and termites; explained by kin selection and colony efficiency.
Worker-Peasant-Soldier Students
Worker-Peasant-Soldier Students (工农兵学员) were students admitted to Chinese universities by recommendation rather than examination from 1970 to 1976, under a Cultural Revolution policy that admitted about 950,000 students in seven cohorts.
Workers and Soldiers
Workers and Soldiers: two-player abstract board game, a simplified 3X game created for Alek Ericson's Realm variants contest; workers produce bases and new pieces, soldiers capture by replacement; implemented in Ludii (DLP.Games.1641).
Workers of the world, unite!
Workers of the world, unite! (German: Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!) is the closing slogan of the 1848 Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, popularized in English and emblematic of proletarian internationalism.
Workers Party of Britain
Workers Party of Britain (WPB), also Workers Party: socialist, socially conservative UK party founded 2019, led by George Galloway; won Rochdale by-election February 2024, 210,252 votes (0.73%) at the 2024 general election, no seats.
Workers United
Workers United is an SEIU-affiliated labor union formed March 21, 2009, representing 86,000+ workers in apparel, laundry, food service, hospitality, and related industries in the US and Canada, and known for the Starbucks Workers United organizing campaign.
Workers' and Peasants' Inspection
The Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, known as Rabkrin, was the Soviet state control organ from 1920 to 1934, created on Lenin's initiative and merged with the party's control commission.
Workers' compensation
Workers' compensation is state-regulated no-fault insurance in the United States paying medical, wage-loss, and rehabilitation benefits for occupational injuries in exchange for limited employer liability. It began with Bismarck's 1884 German laws, a 1908 federal act, and Wisconsin's 1911 program.
Workers' Defence Committee
The Workers' Defence Committee (Komitet Obrony Robotników, KOR) was a Polish democratic opposition organization founded in Warsaw in 1976 to aid workers repressed after the June 1976 protests.
Workers' Party (Brazil)
Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT), Brazilian left-wing party founded 10 February 1980 in São Paulo from the metalworkers' union movement under Lula; held the presidency 2003–2016 and from 2023.
Workers' Party (Singapore)
Workers' Party (WP), Singapore opposition party founded 1957 by David Marshall. Only non-PAP party to win GRCs (Aljunied 2011, Sengkang 2020); holds 10 seats; led by Pritam Singh.
Workers' Party of Belgium
Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA, Partij van de Arbeid), a Marxist, populist radical-left party founded in 1979 out of AMADA; Belgium's only nationwide bilingual unitary party, holding 15 Chamber seats after 2024.
Workers' Party of Korea (조선로동당)
Workers' Party of Korea (조선로동당), North Korea's ruling communist party founded in 1945, led by General Secretary Kim Jong Un; revised its charter at the February 2026 Ninth Congress, dropping unification goals and adopting a 2026–2030 five-year plan.
Workers' Party of Turkey (1961)
Workers' Party of Turkey (Türkiye İşçi Partisi, TİP), socialist party founded 13 February 1961 by trade unionists; first legal socialist party to win parliamentary seats (1965, about 3 percent, 15 deputies); closed by Constitutional Court 20 July 1971.
Workers' Party of Turkey (2017)
Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP, Türkiye İşçi Partisi), socialist party founded 2017 from the HTKP, led by Erkan Baş; revived the name of the 1961 party dissolved by Law 2533; won 1.73% and 4 seats in 2023.