diff --git a/platform-sdk/swirlds-common/src/main/java/com/swirlds/common/concurrent/internal/DefaultExecutorFactory.java b/platform-sdk/swirlds-common/src/main/java/com/swirlds/common/concurrent/internal/DefaultExecutorFactory.java
index dc500571dbe5..0a1208b4fc41 100644
--- a/platform-sdk/swirlds-common/src/main/java/com/swirlds/common/concurrent/internal/DefaultExecutorFactory.java
+++ b/platform-sdk/swirlds-common/src/main/java/com/swirlds/common/concurrent/internal/DefaultExecutorFactory.java
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public ForkJoinPool createForkJoinPool(int parallelism) {
         if (parallelism <= 0) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("parallelism must be greater than 0");
         }
-        return new ForkJoinPool(parallelism, forkJoinWorkerThreadFactory, handler, false);
+        return new ForkJoinPool(parallelism, forkJoinWorkerThreadFactory, handler, true);
     }
 
     @Override