Barit, something about your logic seems flawed.
Consider a turbine in a power plant. Since it isn't physically moving, or translating, by your definition, it's doing zero work. However, we know there is all that electrical energy being generated. Take the power output of the plant, multiply by the time, and you'll get the work done in producing that power. Actual value will be a bit more, due to inefficiencies.
Hawk