diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/src/engines/ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer.ts b/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/src/engines/ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
index 4c165886a3..4b1307114a 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/src/engines/ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/src/engines/ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ export class ElasticSearchSearchEngineIndexer extends BatchSearchEngineIndexer {
           index: { _index: that.indexName },
         };
       },
-      refreshOnCompletion: options.skipRefresh !== true && that.indexName,
+      refreshOnCompletion: options.skipRefresh !== true,
     });
 
     // Safely catch errors thrown by the bulk helper client, e.g. HTTP timeouts