diff --git a/pkg/util/workloadrepo/BUILD.bazel b/pkg/util/workloadrepo/BUILD.bazel
index 9b910c112a453..054bafb971ff7 100644
--- a/pkg/util/workloadrepo/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/pkg/util/workloadrepo/BUILD.bazel
@@ -41,10 +41,11 @@ go_library(
 
 go_test(
     name = "workloadrepo_test",
-    timeout = "long",
+    timeout = "short",
     srcs = ["worker_test.go"],
     embed = [":workloadrepo"],
     flaky = True,
+    shard_count = 13,
     deps = [
         "//pkg/domain",
         "//pkg/infoschema",
diff --git a/tools/tazel/util.go b/tools/tazel/util.go
index 5e2158b89590c..4b58d9d882f43 100644
--- a/tools/tazel/util.go
+++ b/tools/tazel/util.go
@@ -46,5 +46,6 @@ func skipShardCount(path string) bool {
 			!strings.HasPrefix(path, "pkg/util/admin") &&
 			!strings.HasPrefix(path, "pkg/util/chunk") &&
 			!strings.HasPrefix(path, "pkg/util/topsql") &&
-			!strings.HasPrefix(path, "pkg/util/stmtsummary"))
+			!strings.HasPrefix(path, "pkg/util/stmtsummary") &&
+			!strings.HasPrefix(path, "pkg/util/workloadrepo"))
 }