diff --git a/lint-staged.config.js b/lint-staged.config.js
index 39d0b6f62b71a..0a64c208cbe57 100644
--- a/lint-staged.config.js
+++ b/lint-staged.config.js
@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@ const commands = {
   lint: 'node ./scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint',
 };
 
+const nonJsExtensions = [
+  prettierSupportedFileExtensionsByContext.stylesheets,
+  prettierSupportedFileExtensionsByContext.markdown,
+  prettierSupportedFileExtensionsByContext.others,
+].flat();
+
 // https://www.npmjs.com/package/lint-staged
 module.exports = {
-  [`**/*.{${[].concat(
-    prettierSupportedFileExtensionsByContext.stylesheets,
-    prettierSupportedFileExtensionsByContext.markdown,
-    prettierSupportedFileExtensionsByContext.others,
-  )}}`]: [commands.format],
-  [`**/*.{${prettierSupportedFileExtensionsByContext.js}}`]: [commands.format, commands.lint],
+  [`**/*.{${nonJsExtensions}}`]: [commands.format],
+  [`**/*.{${prettierSupportedFileExtensionsByContext.js}}`]: [/* commands.format, */ commands.lint],
 };
diff --git a/scripts/lint-staged/package.json b/scripts/lint-staged/package.json
index 6857f42407935..780b52b673daa 100644
--- a/scripts/lint-staged/package.json
+++ b/scripts/lint-staged/package.json
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
     "type-check": "just-scripts type-check"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@fluentui/scripts-monorepo": "*"
+    "@fluentui/scripts-monorepo": "*",
+    "@fluentui/scripts-utils": "*"
   },
   "devDependencies": {}
 }
diff --git a/scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint-for-package.js b/scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint-for-package.js
index e992ab9d9669d..831dd98346fac 100644
--- a/scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint-for-package.js
+++ b/scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint-for-package.js
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 // @ts-check
 
+const fs = require('fs');
 const path = require('path');
 
 const { eslintConstants } = require('@fluentui/scripts-monorepo');
 const { ESLint } = require('eslint');
-const fs = require('fs-extra');
 const micromatch = require('micromatch');
 
 /**
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ const micromatch = require('micromatch');
 async function run() {
   // Get information needed to determine whether files in this package should be linted
   const packagePath = process.cwd();
-  const packageJson = fs.readJSONSync(path.join(packagePath, 'package.json'));
-  const lintScript = packageJson.scripts.lint || '';
+  /** @type {{scripts?:Record<string,string>}} */
+  const packageJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(packagePath, 'package.json'), 'utf-8'));
+  const lintScript = packageJson.scripts?.lint ?? '';
   /** @type {import('eslint').ESLint} */
   let eslint;
   /** @type {string} */
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ async function run() {
     eslint = new ESLint({ fix: true, cache: lintScript.includes('--cache') });
   }
 
-  // files are provided by @see `./eslint.js` via cli
+  // files are provided by @see `file://./eslint.js` via cli
   const cliFiles = process.argv.slice(2);
   // Filter out files with non-linted extensions
   const files = cliFiles.filter(file => micromatch.isMatch(file, includePattern));
diff --git a/scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint.js b/scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint.js
index d127501da4e19..69f13146ef7e2 100644
--- a/scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint.js
+++ b/scripts/lint-staged/src/eslint.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const os = require('os');
 const path = require('path');
 const { promisify } = require('util');
 
-const { getWorkspaceProjects, workspaceRoot } = require('@fluentui/scripts-monorepo');
+const { findConfig } = require('@fluentui/scripts-utils');
 const { default: PQueue } = require('p-queue');
 const exec = promisify(child_process.exec);
 
@@ -16,44 +16,37 @@ const exec = promisify(child_process.exec);
  */
 const eslintForPackageScript = path.join(__dirname, 'eslint-for-package.js');
 
-const files = process.argv.slice(2);
-
 /**
  * Since we have an eslint config file per package we need to respect this when running
  * eslint for staged files. To do this we group the files per package name. This function takes
  * a list of package names and returns an object with the package root as the key and the files
  * in that package as the value.
+ *
+ * @param {string[]} files
  * @returns {{ [packagePath: string]: string[] }}
  */
-function groupFilesByPackage() {
+function groupFilesByPackage(files) {
   /** @type {{ [packagePath: string]: string[] }} */
   const filesByPackage = {};
 
-  const packagesWithEslint = [];
-  const projects = getWorkspaceProjects();
-  for (const [, projectConfig] of projects) {
-    const absoluteRootPath = path.join(workspaceRoot, projectConfig.root);
-    if (fs.readdirSync(absoluteRootPath).some(f => f.startsWith('.eslintrc'))) {
-      packagesWithEslint.push(absoluteRootPath);
+  for (const file of files) {
+    const packagePath = findConfig('project.json', file)?.replace('/project.json', '');
+
+    if (!packagePath) {
+      continue;
     }
-  }
 
-  for (const file of files) {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line no-shadow
-    const packagePath = packagesWithEslint.find(packagePath => {
-      // if file lives within searched package we will get only shortened absolute path `/src/abc.ts`
-      // we add `.` to make it relative and thus have match pattern to check upon
-      const normalizedFilePath = file.replace(packagePath, '.');
-      return normalizedFilePath.startsWith('./');
-    });
+    const hasEslintConfig =
+      fs.existsSync(path.join(packagePath, '.eslintrc.json')) || fs.existsSync(path.join(packagePath, '.eslintrc.js'));
 
-    // Exclude files in a package without an eslintrc (or not in a package at all)
-    if (packagePath) {
-      if (!filesByPackage[packagePath]) {
-        filesByPackage[packagePath] = [];
-      }
-      filesByPackage[packagePath].push(file);
+    if (!hasEslintConfig) {
+      continue;
     }
+
+    if (!filesByPackage[packagePath]) {
+      filesByPackage[packagePath] = [];
+    }
+    filesByPackage[packagePath].push(file);
   }
 
   return filesByPackage;
@@ -61,24 +54,26 @@ function groupFilesByPackage() {
 
 /**
  * Runs eslint for the staged files in the packages that require it.
+ * @param {string[]} files
  */
-async function runEslintOnFilesGroupedPerPackage() {
-  const filesGroupedByPackage = groupFilesByPackage();
+async function runEslintOnFilesGroupedPerPackage(files) {
+  const filesGroupedByPackage = groupFilesByPackage(files);
 
   // Log an empty line on error to make the eslint output look better
-  console.log('');
+  console.log('', filesGroupedByPackage);
 
   const queue = new PQueue({ concurrency: os.cpus().length / 2 });
   let hasError = false;
 
   await queue.addAll(
     // eslint-disable-next-line no-shadow
-    Object.entries(filesGroupedByPackage).map(([packagePath, files]) => async () => {
+    Object.entries(filesGroupedByPackage).map(([packageRootAbsolutePath, files]) => async () => {
       // This script handles running eslint on ONLY touched files for each package.
       const cmd = `node ${eslintForPackageScript} ${files.join(' ')}`;
+      console.log(`${cmd}`);
 
       return (
-        exec(cmd, { cwd: packagePath })
+        exec(cmd, { cwd: packageRootAbsolutePath })
           // Log severity:error lint reports including severity:warn
           // this will also result in killing the process
           .catch((/** @type {{ stdout: string, stderr: string }} */ err) => {
@@ -106,7 +101,12 @@ async function runEslintOnFilesGroupedPerPackage() {
 }
 
 function main() {
-  runEslintOnFilesGroupedPerPackage().catch(err => {
+  /**
+   * Files that are staged for commit - Absolute paths
+   */
+  const files = process.argv.slice(2);
+
+  runEslintOnFilesGroupedPerPackage(files).catch(err => {
     console.error(err);
     process.exit(1);
   });