diff --git a/.circleci/bazel.common.rc b/.circleci/bazel.common.rc
index 6de5ad3021..09b45f2ae8 100644
--- a/.circleci/bazel.common.rc
+++ b/.circleci/bazel.common.rc
@@ -14,13 +14,7 @@ test --flaky_test_attempts=2
 # More details on failures
 build --verbose_failures=true
 
-# We have seen some flakiness in using TS workers on CircleCI
-# https://angular-team.slack.com/archives/C07DT5M6V/p1562693245183400
-# > failures like `ERROR: /home/circleci/ng/packages/core/test/BUILD.bazel:5:1:
-# > Compiling TypeScript (devmode) //packages/core/test:test_lib failed: Worker process did not return a WorkResponse:`
-# > I saw that issue a couple times today.
-# > Example job: https://circleci.com/gh/angular/angular/385517
-# We expect that TypeScript compilations will parallelize wider than the number of local cores anyway
-# so we should saturate remote workers with TS compilations
-build --strategy=AngularTemplateCompile=local
-build --strategy=TypeScriptCompile=local
+# Utilize remote strategy for AngularTemplateCompile and TypeScriptCompile to take
+# advantage of caching of outputs
+build --strategy=AngularTemplateCompile=remote
+build --strategy=TypeScriptCompile=remote
diff --git a/modules/playground/src/relative_assets/BUILD.bazel b/modules/playground/src/relative_assets/BUILD.bazel
index b72a4e3f65..3bf9f769dd 100644
--- a/modules/playground/src/relative_assets/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/modules/playground/src/relative_assets/BUILD.bazel
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ package(default_visibility = ["//modules/playground:__subpackages__"])
 ng_module(
     name = "relative_assets",
     srcs = glob(["**/*.ts"]),
+    assets = [
+        "app/style.css",
+        "app/tpl.html",
+    ],
     # This example demonstrates how external resources can be loaded relatively, so we
     # need to disable resource inlining.
     inline_resources = False,