diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c3964d27..db12b5b1 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Fixes
   - Fix the dE method in u_nk2series to use the difference between two
     lambda columns instead of using the next lambda column or the previous
     column for the last window (issue #299, PR #300).
+  - work around hanging tests on Mac M1 by using Path.glob instead of glob.glob
+    in ABFE workflow (issue #309, PR #310).
 
 
 12/12/2022 xiki-tempula, orbeckst
diff --git a/src/alchemlyb/workflows/abfe.py b/src/alchemlyb/workflows/abfe.py
index 7b3bff00..df58b893 100644
--- a/src/alchemlyb/workflows/abfe.py
+++ b/src/alchemlyb/workflows/abfe.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import logging
 import os
-from glob import glob
 from os.path import join
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import numpy as np
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ def __init__(
             f"{suffix} under directory {dir} produced by "
             f"{software}"
         )
-        reg_exp = dir + "/**/" + prefix + "*" + suffix
-        self.file_list = list(glob(reg_exp, recursive=True))
+        reg_exp = "**/" + prefix + "*" + suffix
+        self.file_list = list(map(str, Path(dir).glob(reg_exp)))
 
         if len(self.file_list) == 0:
             raise ValueError(f"No file has been matched to {reg_exp}.")