diff --git a/openpype/tools/workfiles/window.py b/openpype/tools/workfiles/window.py
index 907598e9df..5bf6df35ca 100644
--- a/openpype/tools/workfiles/window.py
+++ b/openpype/tools/workfiles/window.py
@@ -101,11 +101,12 @@ class SidePanelWidget(QtWidgets.QWidget):
         # NOTE: we tried adding "win32security" module but it was not working
         # on all hosts so we decided to just support Linux until migration
         # to Ayon
-        if platform.system() != "Windows":
-            import pwd
+        if platform.system().lower() == "window":
+            return None
+        import pwd
 
-            filestat = os.stat(file)
-            return pwd.getpwuid(filestat.st_uid).pw_name
+        filestat = os.stat(file)
+        return pwd.getpwuid(filestat.st_uid).pw_name
 
     def set_context(self, asset_id, task_name, filepath, workfile_doc):
         # Check if asset, task and file are selected