diff --git a/.github/ci-gradle.properties b/.github/ci-gradle.properties
index a810452a5..16013fe3c 100644
--- a/.github/ci-gradle.properties
+++ b/.github/ci-gradle.properties
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 # CI build workers are ephemeral, so don't benefit from the Gradle daemon
 org.gradle.daemon=false
 org.gradle.parallel=true
-org.gradle.workers.max=2
 org.gradle.configuration-cache=true
 
 kotlin.incremental=false