As a user, I would like a keyboard shortcut to refresh the pool on the work mode without reloading the whole page

Hitting CTRL-R or equivalent to reload the pool is overkill, since it'll reload the whole page (which can take a bit, depending on latency, since all static resources have to be 304-freshness-checked). Instead, it would be cool to have a keyboard shortcut that just kicks off the pool request again and updates my work mode.