Burnout Check-in Tool
This Burnout Check-in Tool is a quick and confidential tool designed to help you understand the extent to which you’re experiencing burnout in your workplace, and what you can do about it.
How it works
We’ll give you 16 statements and ask you to rate them on a scale indicating your level of agreement or disagreement. This will take around 5-10 minutes.
Answer the questions honestly based on how you feel right now in relation to your work. The questions ask about the two main dimensions of burnout, which are:
Answer the questions honestly based on how you feel right now in relation to your work. The questions ask about the two main dimensions of burnout, which are:
exhaustion - meaning feelings of being emotionally drained and worn out, and
disengagement - meaning feeling cynical, detached, and negative towards work.
At the end of the questions, we’ll give you some recommendations based on your answers. Remember as you use this tool that burnout is not just an issue with you. It can be a systemic issue, where your workplace has a responsibility as well. Feelings of burnout aren’t judgements on you and it’s not just up to you to fix.
About your results
This tool can’t tell you for sure if you’re experiencing burnout, and it won’t give a full picture of your mental health.It’s a simple way to think about how your work is affecting you and offers some basic tips on what to do next based on how tired and disengaged you feel.
Your privacy is important to us
This Burnout Check-in Tool is anonymous. We don’t ask for your contact details and we don’t use any cookies that remember the answers you provided.We record how many people take the test. We also record the responses for each question and the results pages we displayed. This helps us review its accuracy and improve it over time.
For more information read our privacy policy.
Acknowledgements
This Burnout Check-in Tool is based on the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI)Demerouti, E. (1999). Burnout: A consequence of specific working conditions among human services, and production tasks. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/t01688-000
