diff --git a/workloads/network-perf-v2/run.sh b/workloads/network-perf-v2/run.sh
index 0648c4e3..14cd1375 100755
--- a/workloads/network-perf-v2/run.sh
+++ b/workloads/network-perf-v2/run.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ log "###############################################"
 log "Workload: ${WORKLOAD}"
 log "###############################################"
 
-timeout $TEST_TIMEOUT time ./k8s-netperf --debug --metrics --all --config ${WORKLOAD} --search $ES_SERVER --tcp-tolerance ${TOLERANCE} --clean=true
+timeout $TEST_TIMEOUT ./k8s-netperf --debug --metrics --all --config ${WORKLOAD} --search $ES_SERVER --tcp-tolerance ${TOLERANCE} --clean=true
 run=$?
 
 # Add debugging info (will be captured in each execution output)