diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/WriteFiles.java b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/WriteFiles.java
index 6b45044d2138..530ead673a7b 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/WriteFiles.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/WriteFiles.java
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.TupleTagList;
 import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.base.Objects;
 import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.collect.ArrayListMultimap;
+import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 import org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v26_0_jre.com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
@@ -462,7 +463,24 @@ public PCollection<List<ResultT>> expand(PCollection<ResultT> input) {
         // iterable to finalize if there are no results.
         return input
             .getPipeline()
-            .apply(Reify.viewInGlobalWindow(input.apply(View.asList()), ListCoder.of(resultCoder)));
+            .apply(
+                "AsPossiblyEmptyList",
+                Reify.viewInGlobalWindow(
+                    // Insert a reshuffle before taking the view to consolidate the (typically)
+                    // one-output-per-bundle writes.
+                    // This avoids producing a huge number of tiny files in the case that side
+                    // inputs are materialized to disk bundle-by-bundle.
+                    input.apply("Consolidate", Reshuffle.viaRandomKey()).apply(View.asIterable()),
+                    IterableCoder.of(resultCoder)))
+            // View.asIterable() can be (significantly) cheaper than View.asList(), as it does not
+            // create a backing indexable view, but we must return a list to maintain update
+            // compatibility for consumers that are shared between this path and the streaming one.
+            .apply(
+                "IterableToList",
+                MapElements.via(
+                    new SimpleFunction<Iterable<ResultT>, List<ResultT>>(
+                        x -> ImmutableList.copyOf(x)) {}))
+            .setCoder(ListCoder.of(resultCoder));
       }
     }
   }