diff --git a/airbyte-workers/src/main/java/io/airbyte/workers/ApplicationInitializer.java b/airbyte-workers/src/main/java/io/airbyte/workers/ApplicationInitializer.java
index 858c8be3a6d..f2fefa4ca3b 100644
--- a/airbyte-workers/src/main/java/io/airbyte/workers/ApplicationInitializer.java
+++ b/airbyte-workers/src/main/java/io/airbyte/workers/ApplicationInitializer.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 package io.airbyte.workers;
 
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import datadog.trace.api.GlobalTracer;
 import datadog.trace.api.Tracer;
 import io.airbyte.commons.logging.LogClientManager;
@@ -273,9 +274,19 @@ private void registerSync(final WorkerFactory factory, final MaxWorkersConfig ma
   private WorkerOptions getWorkerOptions(final int max) {
     return WorkerOptions.newBuilder()
         .setMaxConcurrentActivityExecutionSize(max)
+        .setMaxConcurrentWorkflowTaskExecutionSize(inferWorkflowExecSizeFromActivityExecutionSize(max))
         .build();
   }
 
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  static int inferWorkflowExecSizeFromActivityExecutionSize(final int max) {
+    // Divide by 5 seems to be a good ratio given current empirical observations
+    // Keeping floor at 2 to ensure we keep always return a valid value
+    final int floor = 2;
+    final int maxWorkflowSize = max / 5;
+    return Math.max(maxWorkflowSize, floor);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Performs additional configuration of the Temporal service/connection.
    *
diff --git a/airbyte-workers/src/test/java/io/airbyte/workers/ApplicationInitializerTest.java b/airbyte-workers/src/test/java/io/airbyte/workers/ApplicationInitializerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0a535a46b38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airbyte-workers/src/test/java/io/airbyte/workers/ApplicationInitializerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2020-2024 Airbyte, Inc., all rights reserved.
+ */
+
+package io.airbyte.workers;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class ApplicationInitializerTest {
+
+  @Test
+  void testInferWorkflowExecSizeFromActivityExecutionSize() {
+    assertEquals(2, ApplicationInitializer.inferWorkflowExecSizeFromActivityExecutionSize(10));
+
+    assertEquals(2, ApplicationInitializer.inferWorkflowExecSizeFromActivityExecutionSize(5));
+
+    assertEquals(2, ApplicationInitializer.inferWorkflowExecSizeFromActivityExecutionSize(1));
+
+    assertEquals(20, ApplicationInitializer.inferWorkflowExecSizeFromActivityExecutionSize(100));
+  }
+
+}