The COVID-19 pandemic has had many impacts on Canadian society, particularly in the world of employment. The democratization and popularization of telework has challenged certain canons of labour law. Based on the observation that the traditional contractualist approach to labour law cannot explain the profound upheavals that workers and employers have been confronted with over the last two years, the authors propose to re-examine the employment relationship from a republican perspective. Articulating their reflections around three main axes (place of work, time of work, and nature of work), they argue that today’s worker is in search of autonomy, flexibility and meaning. This questioning of the place of work in our society in a post-pandemic context opens the way to a paradigm shift in our conception of work management to ensure greater freedom for the worker.