diff --git a/modin/config/__init__.py b/modin/config/__init__.py
index 26d759324fd..5a2aa1a68cb 100644
--- a/modin/config/__init__.py
+++ b/modin/config/__init__.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     CIAWSAccessKeyID,
     CIAWSSecretAccessKey,
     CpuCount,
+    DaskThreadsPerWorker,
     DoUseCalcite,
     Engine,
     EnvironmentVariable,
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@
     "RayRedisPassword",
     "TestRayClient",
     "LazyExecution",
+    # Dask specific
+    "DaskThreadsPerWorker",
     # Partitioning
     "NPartitions",
     "MinPartitionSize",
diff --git a/modin/config/envvars.py b/modin/config/envvars.py
index c865e07a358..6ae033d9ba2 100644
--- a/modin/config/envvars.py
+++ b/modin/config/envvars.py
@@ -830,6 +830,13 @@ class LazyExecution(EnvironmentVariable, type=bool):
     default = False
 
 
+class DaskThreadsPerWorker(EnvironmentVariable, type=int):
+    """Number of threads per Dask worker."""
+
+    varname = "MODIN_DASK_THREADS_PER_WORKER"
+    default = 1
+
+
 def _check_vars() -> None:
     """
     Check validity of environment variables.
diff --git a/modin/core/execution/dask/common/utils.py b/modin/core/execution/dask/common/utils.py
index 3eda2a50375..a2909e2d320 100644
--- a/modin/core/execution/dask/common/utils.py
+++ b/modin/core/execution/dask/common/utils.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
     GithubCI,
     Memory,
     NPartitions,
+    DaskThreadsPerWorker,
 )
 from modin.core.execution.utils import set_env
 from modin.error_message import ErrorMessage
@@ -54,12 +55,17 @@ def _disable_warnings():
 """,
         )
         num_cpus = CpuCount.get()
+        threads_per_worker = DaskThreadsPerWorker.get()
         memory_limit = Memory.get()
         worker_memory_limit = memory_limit // num_cpus if memory_limit else "auto"
 
         # when the client is initialized, environment variables are inherited
         with set_env(PYTHONWARNINGS="ignore::FutureWarning"):
-            client = Client(n_workers=num_cpus, memory_limit=worker_memory_limit)
+            client = Client(
+                n_workers=num_cpus,
+                threads_per_worker=threads_per_worker,
+                memory_limit=worker_memory_limit,
+            )
 
         if GithubCI.get():
             # set these keys to run tests that write to the mock s3 service. this seems