As a whole, the article shows how attention – the ability to clear one’s mind in order to fully embrace the object or being to which one is paying attention – is the essential virtue of work for Simone Weil. More specifically, it demonstrates the correlation between the practice of discursive attention – which is exercised in reasoning – and the practice of intuitive attention – which is exercised in paying attention to others, a practice associated here with the work of care. The article then details the working conditions which make it possible, according to Simone Weil, to develop such attention to others.