Alienation; alienation is the state of being an outsider or the feeling of being isolated, from society or from work. The causes of alienation involve many factors such as loneliness, the difficulty of identifying in a particular environment; adaptation to the environment. The pressure to meet certain expectations and meet them leads to withdrawal. The article written by W. Peter Archibald examines several popular claims that suggest that certain social and technical organizational changes related to globalization have reduced alienation for factory workers in fully industrialized societies ("FICs") of the northern and western regions of around the world, and has increased it among high-status workers and professionals. The article takes the theories into consideration and tests their accuracy by dividing them into three different scenarios. With all these new changes and developments in our time, it is reasonable to update Marx's theory of alienation, but it still continues to be used with its original thrust. Job insecurity, downsizing, job dissatisfaction and many others are all factors linked to alienation. The author examines the truth behind these theories and how strong the evidence is for them. One theory states that globalization has now reversed status differences into alienation, but how true is this statement? The Author also examines what are the impacts of alienation and what are the factors that cause it. Can downsizing be a positive thing or does it always have a negative impact? Do survivors feel relieved and safe or stressed and insecure? What is the impact of downsizing on victims? Other factors of alienation discussed are job dissatisfaction and work intensification, which usually causes...... middle of paper ......g was less devastating for survivors than one might think. It is sometimes necessary and will have a positive impact if properly designed. The response to downsizing is commonly anger and weakening of the survivor's productivity. On the other hand, sometimes downsizing will give relief to the survivors and increase their productivity. One of the key findings suggests that the most appropriate scenario is that globalization and competition have increased distrust of owners and managers and job insecurity more generally, which has then made work difficult. to predict and influence both one's employers and co-workers, and thus increasing objective helplessness and subjective alienation. The central question of the article is whether or not it is necessary to update Marx's theory of alienation at work. Since many developments in the modern world are different from Marx's era.