diff --git a/.github/workflows/automatic_versioning.yml b/.github/workflows/automatic_versioning.yml
index 3fd2e02b..e9daaa45 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/automatic_versioning.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/automatic_versioning.yml
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ jobs:
             find $HOME/.local
 
             # make sure we are not in the source directory
-            work_dir = $PWD
             cd $HOME
 
             echo "Checking if file 'eessi/testsuite/_version.py' was generated by setuptools_scm":