diff --git a/scripts/bench/README.md b/scripts/bench/README.md
index f8235dd23f..8345552b03 100644
--- a/scripts/bench/README.md
+++ b/scripts/bench/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 In most cases, the only two commands you might want to use are:
 
 - `yarn start`
-- `yarn build core,dom-client --type=UMD_PROD && yarn start --skip-build`
+- `yarn --cwd=../../ build core,dom-client --type=UMD_PROD && yarn start --skip-build`
 
 The first command will run benchmarks with all the default settings. A local and remote build will occur on React and ReactDOM UMD bundles, both local and remote repos will be run against all benchmarks.
 
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ yarn start --headless
 
 # runs only specific string matching benchmarks
 yarn start --benchmark=hacker
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```