Check your burnout score
Free resource
How burnt out are you, really?
Most people do not notice burnout arriving. They notice it once it has already changed how they work, sleep and speak to the people they love.
This questionnaire gives you a way to look at it honestly. It uses the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, a free and widely used research measure, and it scores itself as you go.
Your answers stay on your device. They are not sent anywhere, not saved, and not seen by me or anyone else. At the end I will ask for your email address so I can send you the anxiety chapter from my book alongside your results. That is the only thing that leaves this page.
- 19 questions
- About 4 minutes
- Answers stay on your device
- Free chapter with your results
Before you start
Burnout shows up in three places: in your life generally, in your work, and in the people you work with. The last set only applies to some jobs.
Does your work involve dealing directly with other people?
Where should I send your chapter?
Your results are ready. Pop your email address in below and they will appear on this page straight away.
- Your three scores, explained, on this page now
- The anxiety chapter from When Life Sucks, emailed to you free
- My weekly newsletter on how people hold up at work, if you want it
Your answers are not sent with this. They have stayed on your device the whole way through and they stay there. The only thing that leaves this page is your email address. Read the privacy statement.
The anxiety chapter is on its way to . If it does not arrive within a few minutes, it is worth checking your junk folder.
Your results
Each score runs from 0 to 100, from full vitality to complete exhaustion. Higher means more exhaustion. There are no bands, categories or pass marks here, and that is deliberate: the researchers who built this measure did not set any, because burnout sits on a continuum rather than in a box.
Whatever your numbers, the useful next step is the same. Take them to your GP and talk them through.
What tends to help
Burnout is a workplace problem more than a personal failing, so the useful moves are usually not more discipline. In my keynote work I come back to three:
- Speak. Say the true version out loud to one person who can do something about it, or at least who will not manage you. Burnout that nobody knows about does not get any easier.
- Support. The person on a team most likely to burn out is often the one who looks like they are coping best. If that is you, ask. If that is someone near you, notice out loud.
- Settle. Your nervous system needs regular, short returns to calm during the working day, not one big holiday nine months from now.
Take something with you
- Download the anxiety chapter from my book When Life Sucks, free, no charge and no catch.
- Subscribe to Human Foundations, my weekly newsletter on how people actually hold up at work.
- See the keynotes, including Beyond Heroics, if burnout is a problem across your organisation rather than only in your own week.
If things are difficult right now
In New Zealand you can free call or text 1737 at any time to talk with a trained counsellor. In an emergency, call 111. Elsewhere, your local crisis line or emergency number applies.
