Academic interests in the concept of placelessness, the weakening of significance in places, has grown as post-COVID-19 workplaces are becoming more mobile and are increasingly situated in multiple places. Despite calls from scholars, little is known about how employees use organisational space and sense of place as resources for identity work. This study addresses this gap by investigating employees’ identity work in a French banking organisation that transformed into a placeless workspace. Finding reveal that the placeless workspace threatened employee’s self-esteem and distinctiveness. In response to these identity-threats employees engaged in three forms of identity work: place-making, creating a place to dwell, and re-embedding. This enabled them to initially protect aspects of themselves and eliminate the threats, and begin a process of restructuring these aspects that includes the development of an open sense of place. In so doing, the paper reconsider the relationship between placelessness and place, seeing it as a dynamic one that can be managed through identity work.