What is humane work? What does such work look like in a business context? This paper articulates two ways of thinking about humane work using an Aristotelian and a Confucian virtue ethics approach. This approach reveals the need to think about (1) work’s connection not merely with autonomy but also with self-refinement and self-perfection, with craft, and with the production of genuinely good goods; (2) possible dangers (e.g., the risk of generating envy) of focusing too much on pay issues in connection with humane work; (3) the relation between humane work and political regimes; and (4) the role played by stakeholders other than managers in the humanizing of work. The paper makes two original contributions. First, it identifies some aspects of humane work not previously identified using other ethical frameworks. Second, the paper specifies with greater rigor what qualifies as humanizing work within a virtue ethics framework, an approach that has largely been neglected when it comes to this topic.