  We study the process of assisted work distillation. This scenario arises when
two parties share a bipartite quantum state $\rho_{AB}$ and their task is to
locally distil the optimal amount of work when one party is restricted to
thermal operations whereas the other can perform general quantum operations and
they are allowed to communicate classically. We demonstrate that this question
is intimately related to the distillation of classical/quantum correlations. In
particular, we show that the advantage of one party performing global
measurements over many copies of $\rho_{AB}$ is related to the non-additivity
of the entanglement of formation. We also show that there may exist work bound
in the quantum correlations of the state that is only extractable under the
wider class of local Gibbs-preserving operations.
