diff --git a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/nodes.py b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/nodes.py
index 5d4a3980a..950f8e739 100644
--- a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/nodes.py
+++ b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/nodes.py
@@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ class Node(BASE_NODE, ORMMixin):
     def could_shrink_scaleset(self) -> bool:
         if self.scaleset_id and ShrinkQueue(self.scaleset_id).should_shrink():
             return True
+
+        if self.pool_id and ShrinkQueue(self.pool_id).should_shrink():
+            return True
+
         return False
 
     def can_process_new_work(self) -> bool:
diff --git a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/pools.py b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/pools.py
index 91c7de5f3..409b9f833 100644
--- a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/pools.py
+++ b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/pools.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from ..azure.queue import create_queue, delete_queue, peek_queue, queue_object
 from ..azure.storage import StorageType
 from ..events import send_event
 from ..orm import MappingIntStrAny, ORMMixin, QueryFilter
+from .shrink_queue import ShrinkQueue
 
 NODE_EXPIRATION_TIME: datetime.timedelta = datetime.timedelta(hours=1)
 NODE_REIMAGE_TIME: datetime.timedelta = datetime.timedelta(days=7)
@@ -98,6 +99,11 @@ class Pool(BASE_POOL, ORMMixin):
             for x in Scaleset.search_by_pool(self.name)
         ]
 
+    def peek_work_queue(self) -> List[WorkSet]:
+        return peek_queue(
+            self.get_pool_queue(), StorageType.corpus, object_type=WorkSet
+        )
+
     def populate_work_queue(self) -> None:
         self.work_queue = []
 
@@ -106,11 +112,13 @@ class Pool(BASE_POOL, ORMMixin):
         if self.state == PoolState.init:
             return
 
-        worksets = peek_queue(
-            self.get_pool_queue(), StorageType.corpus, object_type=WorkSet
-        )
+        worksets = self.peek_work_queue()
 
         for workset in worksets:
+            # only include work units with work
+            if not workset.work_units:
+                continue
+
             work_units = [
                 WorkUnitSummary(
                     job_id=work_unit.job_id,
@@ -126,6 +134,7 @@ class Pool(BASE_POOL, ORMMixin):
 
     def init(self) -> None:
         create_queue(self.get_pool_queue(), StorageType.corpus)
+        ShrinkQueue(self.pool_id).create()
         self.state = PoolState.running
         self.save()
 
@@ -216,6 +225,7 @@ class Pool(BASE_POOL, ORMMixin):
         nodes = Node.search(query={"pool_name": [self.name]})
         if not scalesets and not nodes:
             delete_queue(self.get_pool_queue(), StorageType.corpus)
+            ShrinkQueue(self.pool_id).delete()
             logging.info("pool stopped, deleting: %s", self.name)
             self.state = PoolState.halt
             self.delete()
diff --git a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/scalesets.py b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/scalesets.py
index 08255bd6f..dfb02ab58 100644
--- a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/scalesets.py
+++ b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/workers/scalesets.py
@@ -378,6 +378,9 @@ class Scaleset(BASE_SCALESET, ORMMixin):
                 if ShrinkQueue(self.scaleset_id).should_shrink():
                     node.set_halt()
                     to_delete.append(node)
+                elif ShrinkQueue(pool.pool_id).should_shrink():
+                    node.set_halt()
+                    to_delete.append(node)
                 else:
                     to_reimage.append(node)