diff --git a/src/webviews/apps/plus/home/components/active-work.ts b/src/webviews/apps/plus/home/components/active-work.ts
index 687619fcc3d24..8d369e58acba3 100644
--- a/src/webviews/apps/plus/home/components/active-work.ts
+++ b/src/webviews/apps/plus/home/components/active-work.ts
@@ -124,6 +124,15 @@ export class GlActiveWork extends SignalWatcher(LitElement) {
 						} satisfies OpenInGraphParams)}
 						><code-icon icon="gl-graph"></code-icon
 					></gl-button>
+					<gl-button
+						aria-busy="${ifDefined(isFetching)}"
+						?disabled=${isFetching}
+						class="section-heading-action"
+						appearance="toolbar"
+						tooltip="Fetch"
+						href=${createCommandLink('gitlens.home.fetch', undefined)}
+						><code-icon icon="gl-repo-fetch"></code-icon
+					></gl-button>
 					${when(
 						this._homeState.repositories.openCount > 1,
 						() =>
@@ -229,15 +238,6 @@ export class GlActiveWork extends SignalWatcher(LitElement) {
 			);
 		}
 
-		// branch actions
-		actions.push(
-			html`<action-item
-				label="Fetch"
-				icon="gl-repo-fetch"
-				href=${createCommandLink('gitlens.home.fetch', branchRefs)}
-			></action-item>`,
-		);
-
 		if (!actions.length) {
 			return nothing;
 		}
diff --git a/src/webviews/home/homeWebview.ts b/src/webviews/home/homeWebview.ts
index 3b1cbe9535768..bdcdb5f817165 100644
--- a/src/webviews/home/homeWebview.ts
+++ b/src/webviews/home/homeWebview.ts
@@ -837,7 +837,13 @@ export class HomeWebviewProvider implements WebviewProvider<State, State, HomeWe
 		void RepoActions.switchTo(repo!.repo, getReferenceFromBranch(branch));
 	}
 
-	private fetch(refs: BranchRef) {
+	private fetch(refs?: BranchRef) {
+		if (refs == null) {
+			const repo = this.getSelectedRepository();
+			void RepoActions.fetch(repo);
+			return;
+		}
+
 		const repo = this._repositoryBranches.get(refs.repoPath);
 		const branch = repo?.branches.find(b => b.id === refs.branchId);
 		if (branch == null) return;