diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/687-fix-redfish-payload-decode-python35.yml b/changelogs/fragments/687-fix-redfish-payload-decode-python35.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93b3ed2512
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/687-fix-redfish-payload-decode-python35.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - redfish_info, redfish_config, redfish_command - Fix Redfish response payload decode on Python 3.5 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/686)
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/redfish_utils.py b/plugins/module_utils/redfish_utils.py
index 09adeabb6f..e1bef84e72 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/redfish_utils.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/redfish_utils.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import json
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import http_client
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import URLError, HTTPError
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ class RedfishUtils(object):
                             force_basic_auth=True, validate_certs=False,
                             follow_redirects='all',
                             use_proxy=True, timeout=self.timeout)
-            data = json.loads(resp.read())
+            data = json.loads(to_native(resp.read()))
             headers = dict((k.lower(), v) for (k, v) in resp.info().items())
         except HTTPError as e:
             msg = self._get_extended_message(e)