Writing and recording

"I had a good time… I was in the studio with Scott Storch and we wanted to have a party record, a record that'd make you get up and dance. So we literally went out and we went to a club and partied and we got a little inspiration."

—Kelly Rowland, I Like Music Rowland recorded near completion in 2006 for the revamped version of My Story, the album's actual version. Conceived during a booked studio session in Miami, Florida; The team returned the next day for vocal recording.
   The singer has described the song as "actually very innocent [but] a little aggressive maybe:"
   Although Columbia Records intended to release "Work" as Ms. Kelly’s lead single in the beginning, The full track was leaked on May 31, 2007 onto the internet. It has since been remixed by several producers and DJs, among spawning official versions by duos Steve Pitron and Max Sanna, and the Freemasons, whose remix Rowland said gave the song new life. "I'm really grateful to the Freemasons for coming along [...], because it's something that I could have got. You always need an extra brain there and they just gave it a new vibe." For a review for the BBC, Gemma Padley also compared the track to Rowland's former band’s singles "Bug a Boo" and "Lose My Breath" due to "its jagged vocal and hip shaking beat." Rewind Magazine writer Emmanuel Ezugwu found "Work" a "high energy track that will undoubtedly be a future club banger. The constant cow bells adds to the frenzied pace of the record and Kelly’s vocals are fast and stuttered."
   Spence D. of IGN observed that the song flipped the early musical script of the album "for a hot minute, going for a more driven, throbbing thrust over which Rowland's flitters and flirts." In a preview, ThatGrapeJuice.net called "one of many highlights; with a pulsating beat and deliberately suggestive lyrics, Rowland doesn’t hold back."
   However, San Francisco Weekly writer Dan Leroy was less empathic with "Work", calling it "derivative," while Dotmusic's Jaime Gill considered the track a mis-step: "'Work' is a clear attempt to encroach on her old band mates' hyper-sexual territory, although it's hard to imagine Beyoncé resorting to as crass a single entendre as repeatedly demanding "put it in!" like a hooker on crystal meth."

Music video

The music video for "Work" was filmed in Los Angeles, California on July 26, 2007 "Work" was originally set to premiere during the September 10, 2007 episode of BET's Access Granted, along with "Ghetto", however, this didn't materialize as there was confusion over which would be Rowland's next single, as the artist now had three videos shot. After her record label rescheduled the air date to October 22, 2007, the release was further pushed back, and the video finally premiered on the December 5, 2007 at SoUrban.com, the record label website for the Sony Urban Music division in the United Kingdom..
   The imagery used in this video can be described as Rowland and her dancers posed in silhouette and shot against backdrops of vivid color and beam lighting. The beam lighting is used throughout the video to create a kaleidoscope effect which is used to break up each scene. During the last part of the clip the lighting schemes are reversed to show Rowland and her four dancer’s out of silhouette and performing a choreographed bollywood style routine against a black backdrop.
   The video has also been edited to fit the Freemasons' remix and has been sent out to music channels outside the US (Europe, Australia).

Chart performance

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