diff --git a/docs/docs/index.md b/docs/docs/index.md
index 7413d000..ab717c52 100644
--- a/docs/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/docs/index.md
@@ -471,6 +471,31 @@ To learn about workers, see the [workers][w] documentation.
 [w]: {{site.baseurl}}workers/
 
 
+## Suspending and Resuming
+
+Sometimes you may want to suspend RQ to prevent it from processing new jobs.
+A classic example is during the initial phase of a deployment script or in advance
+of putting your site into maintenance mode. This is particularly helpful when
+you have jobs that are relatively long-running and might otherwise be forcibly
+killed during the deploy.
+
+The `suspend` command stops workers on _all_ queues (in a single Redis database)
+from picking up new jobs. However currently running jobs will continue until
+completion.
+
+```bash
+# Suspend indefinitely
+rq suspend
+
+# Suspend for a specific duration (in seconds) then automatically
+# resume work again.
+rq suspend --duration 300
+
+# Resume work again.
+rq resume
+```
+
+
 ## Considerations for jobs
 
 Technically, you can put any Python function call on a queue, but that does not
diff --git a/rq/job.py b/rq/job.py
index cf95c8ac..c09f0f4c 100644
--- a/rq/job.py
+++ b/rq/job.py
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ class Job:
         return job
 
     @classmethod
-    def fetch_many(cls, job_ids: Iterable[str], connection: 'Redis', serializer=None) -> List['Job']:
+    def fetch_many(cls, job_ids: Iterable[str], connection: 'Redis', serializer=None) -> List[Optional['Job']]:
         """
         Bulk version of Job.fetch
 
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ class Job:
             serializer (Callable): A serializer
 
         Returns:
-            jobs (list[Job]): A list of Jobs instances.
+            jobs (list[Optional[Job]]): A list of Jobs instances, elements are None if a job_id does not exist.
         """
         parsed_ids = [parse_job_id(job_id) for job_id in job_ids]
         with connection.pipeline() as pipeline: