For humans, the world is never merely a collection of unrelated objects. Contrarily, humans are in a meaningful and emotive relationship with the world, and the meaning of things arises from this relational state. The perception of the world, wherein things can serve as resources according to human needs and usage, has transformed in the modern era into an understanding that everything is merely a resource. This article problematizes the way modern technology enframes the world through calculation and measurement, turning everything within it, including humans, into resources to be utilized when necessary. New management ideologies, in the name of creating value from human resources, aim to subject the entire physical, mental, and emotional human existence (bios) to the work–labor space transformed by intelligent and flexible automation systems and algorithm technologies through discourses of "authenticity." In this context, we begin by examining the critique of modern technology in relation to the worldliness of the work–labor act through Heidegger’s discussion of the workshop (Werkstatt), and we deepen this analysis with the concepts of framing and standing reserve. However, unlike Heidegger, we squarely place the transformation of the workshop within a historical and social ground, focusing on the transition from the industrial period—where the Cartesian logic of ontology separated the human mind and action in the labor process—to the biopolitical post-industrial period, which targets the entirety of human life. Subsequently, Adorno's critique of the jargon of authenticity completes the critical axis of the article. The call to be authentic in a work–labor space where the distinction between work and non-work has become blurred does not bring about liberation from work and autonomy; conversely, it entails renewed subordination through and around work.