diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/admin/WorkspaceDetail.tsx b/components/dashboard/src/admin/WorkspaceDetail.tsx
index a6e003b3cc24fb..ff1dea0ccb4985 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/admin/WorkspaceDetail.tsx
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/admin/WorkspaceDetail.tsx
@@ -62,7 +62,12 @@ export default function WorkspaceDetail(props: { workspace: WorkspaceAndInstance
                 <div className="flex w-full mt-6">
                     <Property name="User"><Link className="text-blue-400 hover:text-blue-600" to={"/admin/users/" + props.workspace.ownerId}>{user?.name || props.workspace.ownerId}</Link></Property>
                     <Property name="Sharing">{workspace.shareable ? 'Enabled' : 'Disabled'}</Property>
-                    <Property name=""><div></div></Property>
+                    <Property name="Soft Deleted" actions={(!!workspace.softDeleted && !workspace.contentDeletedTime) && [{
+                        label: 'Restore & Pin',
+                        onClick: () => {
+                            getGitpodService().server.adminRestoreSoftDeletedWorkspace(workspace.workspaceId);
+                        }
+                    }] || undefined}>{workspace.softDeleted ? `'${workspace.softDeleted}' ${moment(workspace.softDeletedTime).fromNow()}` : 'No'}</Property>
                 </div>
                 <div className="flex w-full mt-12">
                     <Property name="Latest Instance ID">
diff --git a/components/gitpod-protocol/src/admin-protocol.ts b/components/gitpod-protocol/src/admin-protocol.ts
index 1137a045382989..61a6c4e9312b64 100644
--- a/components/gitpod-protocol/src/admin-protocol.ts
+++ b/components/gitpod-protocol/src/admin-protocol.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ export interface AdminServer {
     adminGetWorkspaces(req: AdminGetWorkspacesRequest): Promise<AdminGetListResult<WorkspaceAndInstance>>;
     adminGetWorkspace(id: string): Promise<WorkspaceAndInstance>;
     adminForceStopWorkspace(id: string): Promise<void>;
+    adminRestoreSoftDeletedWorkspace(id: string): Promise<void>;
 
     adminSetLicense(key: string): Promise<void>;
 
diff --git a/components/server/ee/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts b/components/server/ee/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts
index 956c0b94924cb0..854c24d8fbb2fd 100644
--- a/components/server/ee/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts
+++ b/components/server/ee/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts
@@ -506,6 +506,28 @@ export class GitpodServerEEImpl<C extends GitpodClient, S extends GitpodServer>
         await this.internalStopWorkspace({ span }, id, undefined,  StopWorkspacePolicy.IMMEDIATELY);
     }
 
+    async adminRestoreSoftDeletedWorkspace(id: string): Promise<void> {
+        this.requireEELicense(Feature.FeatureAdminDashboard);
+
+        await this.guardAdminAccess("adminRestoreSoftDeletedWorkspace", {id}, Permission.ADMIN_WORKSPACES);
+
+        const span = opentracing.globalTracer().startSpan("adminRestoreSoftDeletedWorkspace");
+        await this.workspaceDb.trace({ span }).transaction(async db => {
+            const ws = await this.internalGetWorkspace(id, db);
+            if (!ws.softDeleted) {
+                return;
+            }
+            if (!!ws.contentDeletedTime) {
+                throw new ResponseError(ErrorCodes.NOT_FOUND, "The workspace content was already garbage-collected.");
+            }
+            // @ts-ignore
+            ws.softDeleted = null;
+            ws.softDeletedTime = '';
+            ws.pinned = true;
+            await db.store(ws);
+        });
+    }
+
     protected async guardAdminAccess(method: string, params: any, requiredPermission: PermissionName) {
         const user = this.checkAndBlockUser(method);
         if (!this.authorizationService.hasPermission(user, requiredPermission)) {
diff --git a/components/server/src/auth/rate-limiter.ts b/components/server/src/auth/rate-limiter.ts
index 23499ef557e5f0..d185403a73989d 100644
--- a/components/server/src/auth/rate-limiter.ts
+++ b/components/server/src/auth/rate-limiter.ts
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ function readConfig(): RateLimiterConfig {
         "adminGetWorkspaces": { group: "default", points: 1 },
         "adminGetWorkspace": { group: "default", points: 1 },
         "adminForceStopWorkspace": { group: "default", points: 1 },
+        "adminRestoreSoftDeletedWorkspace": { group: "default", points: 1 },
         "adminSetLicense": { group: "default", points: 1 },
 
         "validateLicense": { group: "default", points: 1 },
diff --git a/components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts b/components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts
index c5793b12f502cd..495f16999830ce 100644
--- a/components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts
+++ b/components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts
@@ -1507,6 +1507,10 @@ export class GitpodServerImpl<Client extends GitpodClient, Server extends Gitpod
         throw new ResponseError(ErrorCodes.EE_FEATURE, `Admin support is implemented in Gitpod's Enterprise Edition`);
     }
 
+    async adminRestoreSoftDeletedWorkspace(id: string): Promise<void> {
+        throw new ResponseError(ErrorCodes.EE_FEATURE, `Admin support is implemented in Gitpod's Enterprise Edition`);
+    }
+
     async adminSetLicense(key: string): Promise<void> {
         throw new ResponseError(ErrorCodes.EE_FEATURE, `Admin support is implemented in Gitpod's Enterprise Edition`);
     }