An educational self-assessment inspired by the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach & Jackson): emotional exhaustion + depersonalization/cynicism + reduced personal accomplishment. It surrounds those three classic dimensions with a fourth — recovery capacity — because burnout is as much about whether you can refill as about how fast you drain. Items describe specific work and life-energy situations rather than vague traits. This is a reflective screening tool to help you see patterns in your own energy, not a clinical diagnosis.
Your result is broken down across 4 distinct dimensions rather than collapsing everything into a single number. Each dimension is scored from its own set of items, so you can see which specific pattern is driving your overall result.
Scores fall into one of 4 interpretive bands. Here is what each one means, what tends to sit underneath it, and what usually helps.
Running on Full
Your energy, engagement, sense of competence, and ability to recover are all in a healthy range. Work has its hard days, but it isn't draining you faster than you can refill.
What it suggests
Low scores across exhaustion, cynicism, and accomplishment loss usually mean your demands and your resources are reasonably matched — and crucially, your recovery is working: time off actually restores you. Burnout is a slow erosion, so the strongest protection is that you still bounce back. If one subscale sits noticeably higher than the others, treat it as an early-warning light rather than an alarm.
What helps
Keep doing what refills you — protected rest, boundaries around off-hours, and work you can take some pride in. Notice the specific conditions of your good weeks so you can recreate them. A periodic check-in like this one helps you catch drift before it becomes depletion.
Fraying at the Edges
You're carrying real strain. It shows up in moments — a short fuse, a flat day, a weekend that doesn't quite recharge you — rather than dominating everything, but the early signature of burnout is visible.
What it suggests
This range often means the math has tipped slightly: a bit more is going out than coming back in. Look at which subscale is pulling your score up. Rising Emotional Exhaustion with intact Recovery Capacity is the most workable pattern — you're tired but you can still refill. Exhaustion plus collapsing recovery is the combination to take more seriously, because that's the loop that deepens.
What helps
Act now, while it's still cheap to. Reclaim genuine downtime and guard it like an appointment. Trim or renegotiate one recurring drain. Reconnect with the part of your work that once felt meaningful. If your Recovery Capacity score is the low point, prioritize that first — rest that actually restores is the lever everything else hangs on.
Deep in the Red
Burnout is taking a real toll across several dimensions. You're likely exhausted in a way sleep no longer fixes, more detached or cynical than you'd like to be, and questioning whether your effort lands — even if you're still functioning on the outside.
What it suggests
Scores here typically mean depletion has shifted from occasional to patterned. Many people in this range are still high-performing and hide it well, which is its own kind of exhausting. The dimension to watch closely is Recovery Capacity: when exhaustion is high and recovery has stalled, willpower stops being enough, because the system can no longer refill itself between demands. That's a structural problem, not a personal weakness.
What helps
This is the point to change conditions, not just cope harder. Where you have any leverage, reduce the load — delegate, drop, or renegotiate. Rebuild recovery deliberately: real time off, sleep, movement, and contact with people and activities that aren't about work. Talking it through with a manager, mentor, or a doctor or therapist is well worth it here; sustained burnout affects mood, health, and judgment, and you don't have to push through it alone.
Burned Through
Across nearly every dimension this measures, you're running on empty — drained, detached, doubting your effectiveness, and unable to recover even when you stop. This is a heavy load, and it makes sense if you feel like there's nothing left.
What it suggests
Scores this high reflect burnout that has generalized — emotional, attitudinal, and physical — with recovery that's no longer doing its job. This is not a character flaw and it is not permanent. It's a signal that the gap between what's being asked of you and what you can resource has grown too wide for too long. People recover from burnout this deep, but it usually takes changing the conditions, not just gritting through them.
What helps
Please treat this as a real priority. Where it's possible, step back from the load and protect time to recover — even a short, genuine break can begin to reset things. Reach out for support: a trusted person, your manager, a doctor, or a therapist. Persistent burnout can blur into depression, so if you also feel hopeless, can't function, or have thoughts of not wanting to be here, treat that as urgent — in the US call or text 988, in the UK call Samaritans on 116 123, or elsewhere see findahelpline.com. You deserve support, and recovery is genuinely possible.
Burnout Assessment contains 31 items and takes about 6 minutes. Responses are combined using a sum method across the dimensions listed above, then mapped to the interpretive bands above. Your percentile is an interim estimate that sharpens as more people take the test, and is labelled as provisional in your result.
This assessment also includes hidden validity items that detect inattentive or socially-desirable answering. When they trigger, your result carries a lowered confidence rating and we tell you — rather than presenting a skewed score as fact.
The test ships in 5 parallel forms that rotate between takes, so repeat visitors do not simply memorise the same items.
This is an educational, self-reflective assessment — not a diagnosis. A questionnaire can describe a pattern and point you toward language for it, but it cannot account for your history, context, or circumstances, and it is not a substitute for evaluation by a qualified professional. If a result concerns you, treat it as a reason to talk to someone rather than as a verdict.
Your answers are scored on your device. Taking this test requires no account, no email address, and no payment, and your full result — every band, every dimension — is shown to you immediately and in full.