diff --git a/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/integrate_batch_group.py b/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/integrate_batch_group.py
index da9553cc2a..032de99540 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/integrate_batch_group.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/flame/plugins/publish/integrate_batch_group.py
@@ -324,5 +324,7 @@ class IntegrateBatchGroup(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
         project_doc = instance.data["projectEntity"]
         asset_entity = instance.data["assetEntity"]
 
-        return get_workdir(
-            project_doc, asset_entity, task_data["name"], "flame")
+        workdir = get_workdir(
+            project_doc, asset_entity, task_data["name"], "flame"
+        )
+        return os.path.normpath(workdir)
diff --git a/openpype/lib/applications.py b/openpype/lib/applications.py
index f46197e15f..dafc3b479b 100644
--- a/openpype/lib/applications.py
+++ b/openpype/lib/applications.py
@@ -1638,6 +1638,7 @@ def prepare_context_environments(data, env_group=None):
             "Error in anatomy.format: {}".format(str(exc))
         )
 
+    workdir = os.path.normpath(workdir)
     if not os.path.exists(workdir):
         log.debug(
             "Creating workdir folder: \"{}\"".format(workdir)