Burnout check
Burnout is not one thing, which is why a single score for it tells you almost nothing. Twelve questions, and you get back which of its three parts is loudest for you at the moment.
Two minutes. Free, no account, and nothing you write here is stored or sent anywhere.
1.I wake up tired, even after a full night.
2.I have started caring less about work I used to care about.
3.I finish the day feeling I got something real done.
4.By the evening I have nothing left for the people at home.
5.I find myself going through the motions with people I work with.
6.I can see the difference my work makes.
7.Ordinary tasks take more out of me than they used to.
8.I have become more short-tempered or more distant than I want to be.
9.I still feel competent at the thing I do.
10.The weekend is not long enough to recover in.
11.I feel detached from things that used to matter to me.
12.I handle problems at work without them flattening me.
The three parts burnout is made of
Burnout research has converged on three dimensions, and most people have one that is much louder than the others. Knowing which one is yours is the difference between a rest that helps and a rest that does not touch it. If it turns out this is where you are, there is more in what we have written about burnout.
Exhaustion
This is the part most people mean by the word burnout, and it is the part that responds to rest the way you would expect. Not a weekend. Exhaustion of this kind is a deficit built over months, and it takes more than two days off to move, which is why the weekend keeps failing and why that failure feels like proof that something is wrong with you.
Work out what is actually recovering you and what is only distracting you. They feel similar in the moment and only one of them is still working the next day.
Distance
Pulling back from the work and from the people in it is the part that tends to get read as a personality change, by you and by everybody around you. It is worth knowing that it is usually protective: caring costs something, and when there is not enough to pay with, caring less is what the system does to keep going. That makes it a signal about the load rather than about who you are.
Find the one relationship at work that has gone quiet and put something ordinary back into it this week. Distance is easier to reverse early.
The sense that it does not land
This is the quietest of the three and often the most painful, because it attacks the reason for doing any of it. It also lies more than the other two. When you are depleted, the evidence that you are effective becomes hard to see rather than absent, so the conclusion arrives as a feeling and presents itself as an assessment.
Write down what you actually finished in the last fortnight before you decide how it is going. Not to cheer yourself up. To read the real record rather than the one exhaustion wrote.
One thing worth saying plainly: burnout is usually a fact about a job rather than a fact about a person. Most of what produces it sits in the load, the control somebody has over it, and whether the effort is recognised. A check like this can tell you where it is landing. It cannot fix a workload, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise.
Questions people ask about this
Is burnout a medical diagnosis?
Not in the usual sense. The World Health Organization classifies it in ICD-11 as an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical condition, specifically something that arises from workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. That is part of why this page gives you a picture rather than a score with a verdict attached.
Why three parts instead of one number?
Because the three parts need different things. Exhaustion responds to recovery. Distance responds to reconnection. The sense that nothing lands responds to evidence. A single percentage blurs all of that into one figure that tells you how bad things are and nothing about what to do, which is the least useful thing a check like this could offer.
Is this the Maslach Burnout Inventory?
No. The MBI is a copyrighted instrument that has to be licensed, and we have not licensed it, so using its items here would be both wrong and illegal. This is our own set of questions, written around the same three dimensions that burnout research has consistently described. Treat it as a mirror rather than a measurement.
What if it is not burnout?
Then this will say so, and that is worth knowing. Exhaustion, flatness and detachment are not exclusive to burnout, and looking for them under the wrong heading can keep somebody from finding what is actually going on. Depression in particular overlaps heavily and is a different thing that a doctor should hear about.
Are my answers saved?
No. The scoring happens in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Reload the page and it is gone, because there was never a copy.
This is the part a page cannot do
A tool can name what is happening. It cannot remember that you were here last Tuesday, or notice that the same thing has come up three times this month, or ask you the question that only makes sense because of what you said before. Aura does that, free, for as long as you want to keep talking.
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Written by The Calm AI Therapy editorial team. Not reviewed by a licensed clinician, and not a substitute for one. This is a reflection tool, not an assessment, and it does not diagnose anything. How we research and write.