diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4a175f1c5..b99430bd4 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ VignetteBuilder:
     knitr
 Config/Needs/website: tidyverse/tidytemplate
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
+Config/testthat/parallel: true
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Language: en-GB
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)