diff --git a/packages/devkit/src/executors/read-target-options.ts b/packages/devkit/src/executors/read-target-options.ts
index a83d7193e720e0..e4d8f21e887a5a 100644
--- a/packages/devkit/src/executors/read-target-options.ts
+++ b/packages/devkit/src/executors/read-target-options.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import type { ExecutorContext } from 'nx/src/config/misc-interfaces';
 import { combineOptionsForExecutor } from 'nx/src/utils/params';
 import { requireNx } from '../../nx';
 
-const { Workspaces, getExecutorInformation, calculateDefaultProjectName } =
+const { getExecutorInformation, calculateDefaultProjectName, relativeCwd } =
   requireNx();
 
 /**
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ export function readTargetOptions<T = any>(
   ).projects[project];
   const targetConfiguration = projectConfiguration.targets[target];
 
-  const ws = new Workspaces(context.root);
   const [nodeModule, executorName] = targetConfiguration.executor.split(':');
   const { schema } = getExecutorInformation(
     nodeModule,
@@ -42,6 +41,6 @@ export function readTargetOptions<T = any>(
     targetConfiguration,
     schema,
     defaultProject,
-    ws.relativeCwd(context.cwd)
+    relativeCwd(context.cwd, context.root)
   ) as T;
 }
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/command-line/generate/generate.ts b/packages/nx/src/command-line/generate/generate.ts
index 57b4c901f3830f..f895581d398898 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/command-line/generate/generate.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/command-line/generate/generate.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import { getLocalWorkspacePlugins } from '../../utils/plugins/local-plugins';
 import { printHelp } from '../../utils/print-help';
 import { workspaceRoot } from '../../utils/workspace-root';
 import { NxJsonConfiguration } from '../../config/nx-json';
+import { relativeCwd } from '../../config/relative-cwd';
 import { calculateDefaultProjectName } from '../../config/calculate-default-project-name';
 import { findInstalledPlugins } from '../../utils/plugins/installed-plugins';
 import type { Arguments } from 'yargs';
@@ -366,7 +367,7 @@ export async function generate(cwd: string, args: { [k: string]: any }) {
         projectsConfigurations,
         nxJsonConfiguration
       ),
-      ws.relativeCwd(cwd),
+      relativeCwd(cwd, workspaceRoot),
       verbose
     );
 
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/command-line/run/run.ts b/packages/nx/src/command-line/run/run.ts
index e6fd53a211b5b5..9714d3e57c07a1 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/command-line/run/run.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/command-line/run/run.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import {
 } from '../../project-graph/project-graph';
 import { ProjectGraph } from '../../config/project-graph';
 import { readNxJson } from '../../config/configuration';
+import { relativeCwd } from '../../config/relative-cwd';
 import {
   getLastValueFromAsyncIterableIterator,
   isAsyncIterator,
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ async function runExecutorInternal<T extends { success: boolean }>(
     targetConfig,
     schema,
     project,
-    ws.relativeCwd(cwd),
+    relativeCwd(cwd, root),
     isVerbose
   );
 
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/config/relative-cwd.ts b/packages/nx/src/config/relative-cwd.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c8d196bfe3d09b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/nx/src/config/relative-cwd.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import { relative } from 'path';
+
+export function relativeCwd(cwd: string, root: string): string | null {
+  return relative(this.root, cwd).replace(/\\/g, '/') || null;
+}
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/devkit-internals.ts b/packages/nx/src/devkit-internals.ts
index f5448d0381cf65..936cca8404df65 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/devkit-internals.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/devkit-internals.ts
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 export { createTempNpmDirectory } from './utils/package-manager';
 export { getExecutorInformation } from './command-line/run/executor-utils';
 export { calculateDefaultProjectName } from './config/calculate-default-project-name';
+export { relativeCwd } from './config/relative-cwd';