diff --git a/bigquery_etl/cli/view.py b/bigquery_etl/cli/view.py
index 7ee7d90b56..fd5b39f431 100644
--- a/bigquery_etl/cli/view.py
+++ b/bigquery_etl/cli/view.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import re
 import string
 import sys
 from fnmatch import fnmatchcase
+from functools import partial
 from graphlib import TopologicalSorter
 from multiprocessing.pool import Pool, ThreadPool
 from traceback import print_exc
@@ -207,9 +208,11 @@ def publish(
         for view in views:
             view.labels["managed"] = ""
     if not force:
+        has_changes = partial(_view_has_changes, target_project)
+
         # only views with changes
-        with ThreadPool(parallelism) as p:
-            changes = p.map(lambda v: v.has_changes(target_project), views, chunksize=1)
+        with Pool(parallelism) as p:
+            changes = p.map(has_changes, views)
         views = [v for v, has_changes in zip(views, changes) if has_changes]
     views_by_id = {v.view_identifier: v for v in views}
 
@@ -220,9 +223,10 @@ def publish(
         for view in views
     }
 
-    client = bigquery.Client()
     view_id_order = TopologicalSorter(view_id_graph).static_order()
 
+    client = bigquery.Client()
+
     result = []
     for view_id in view_id_order:
         try:
@@ -238,6 +242,10 @@ def publish(
     click.echo("All have been published.")
 
 
+def _view_has_changes(target_project, view):
+    return view.has_changes(target_project)
+
+
 def _collect_views(name, sql_dir, project_id, user_facing_only, skip_authorized):
     view_files = paths_matching_name_pattern(
         name, sql_dir, project_id, files=("view.sql",)