Tim J. McGuire, former editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, speaking at a seminar entitled "Faith, Religion, and Values" at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, said:

Work is brutal. Work is a four-letter word. Most people don't think that work could possibly have anything to do with spirituality. … They assume that these two worlds cannot mesh. But if we bring our souls to work, then we can transform our work. That is when our work can begin to transform us. The problem for most people is that their work transforms them into something bad, something bitter and tired and broken.