2 lines · 60 statements · 4 conditions
Burnout test You on one axis, what is burning you on the other
Burnout is not an illness and not a diagnosis: the World Health Organization describes it as a state resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed, and files it under factors influencing health rather than under diseases. In plain words, the resource has run out: no energy in the morning, a smirk instead of interest in the work, and rest that has stopped restoring. You answer 60 statements about the past three months — and get not one score but a map of two lines: how spent you are, and how much the environment around the work is demanding. Plus 20 facets and an honest checklist of the four conditions that get checked before the word is used at all. This test gives no diagnosis and takes none away, names no stages and promises no sick leave: it shows what exactly is pronounced in you and what else could explain the same picture. 60 questions, 9–10 minutes; taking the test is free, no sign-up.
Your map, lines and four conditions — right after the answers, free · Full analysis — 790 ₽
- Exhaustion and body
- Distance and response
- What stops working
- The environment
- How long and what it costs
- 60statements, 9–10 minutes
- 2independent lines
- 20facets inside five groups
- 4conditions before the word
Demo
Four statements out of sixty
The full test shows six statements per screen and five frequency steps — from «never» to «almost always». Answer about the past three months and about how it actually is.
These four come from the exhaustion line. There are no right answers.
Exhaustion
Answer about the past three months and about how it is, not how it should be.
Four items measure almost nothing — that is why the band is this wide. In the full test it is narrowed by 60 statements, 20 facets and reversed items. There are no percentiles here: this test has no normative sample, and we will not invent one.
The honest frame
One score says almost nothing
Free burnout tests answer with a number: «moderate level», «high level». After that the person is exactly where they started — because a number answers neither of the two questions that matter: what is burning, and why.
We score two lines apart. The first is what is happening to you: energy, distance, response to people, attention, reactions. The second is what the environment demands: volume, influence, reward, people, fairness, values. Their combination is the answer: the same exhaustion in a calm environment and in a demanding one are two different conversations and two different first steps.
2 lines
instead of one score. Both can be high, both can be low, and all four combinations mean different things. The most important of them: heavy exhaustion with a calm environment is a reason to look for the cause not in the work but in sleep, the body or mood.
20 of 60
items are reversed, one in every facet. They break the automatic «yes, that is me» and stop the test from agreeing with you simply because you came looking for confirmation.
Zero stages
We will not tell you «you are at stage three of twelve». No staged model of burnout has ever been confirmed by research — follow-up observations find that a regular «burnout process» does not exist. Putting a person on a rung would mean inventing a measurement.
What the test sees
Two lines, twenty facets
The signs are visible right here: ten facets describe your state — exhaustion and the body, distance and response, what stops working. Six facets are the environment around the work, the «what is burning». Four more are not signs but conditions: how long this has lasted, whether it lets go away from the work, what it costs and what else might explain it.
Line: state
Exhaustion and body
Energy: how much is left by midday and whether there is any in the morning. Emotional emptiness: is there still a response inside, or nothing. Recovery: does rest work at all. And the body — sleep, head, back, stomach, a clenched jaw.
Facets inside
- energy
- emotional emptiness
- rest does not restore
- signals from the body
What matters here. The key facet here is not «how much energy» but «does it come back». Tiredness passes after a couple of days off; what does not pass is a different conversation, and this scale is exactly what tells them apart.
Line: state
Distance and response
Distance: autopilot, counting hours, a smirk instead of interest. Meaning: has the answer to «what for» left. And, separately, response to people: have they turned into functions, does someone else's difficulty still register.
Facets inside
- distance and cynicism
- loss of meaning
- loss of response to people
What matters here. Distance is not rudeness or a spoiled character: when engagement costs too much, the mind reduces it by itself. And the loss of response to people is the most specific part of the picture — it is what separates this from what it is most often confused with.
Line: state
What stops working
Attention and memory: re-reading the same thing, simple decisions that jam, things forgotten that used to stay on their own. Reactions: snapping and tears out of proportion to the cause. And the sense that effort goes nowhere.
Facets inside
- attention and memory
- control over reactions
- a sense that effort leads nowhere
What matters here. These facets are what separates depletion from «just being tired»: a tired person works slower, while here what changes is HOW the head works. And it usually lands not on whoever caused it but on whoever is closest.
Line: environment
The environment around the work
Workload: does the arithmetic of volume and time add up. Influence: are decisions made without you. Reward: does what you put in come back — in money, words, trust. People: is there support nearby, and is there someone poisoning it. Fairness, and alignment with your own values.
Facets inside
- workload
- influence over the work
- reward and recognition
- the people around
- fairness
- alignment with values
What matters here. This is the most useful part of the test: the cause gets a name. And here comes the counter-intuitive part — the strongest predictor of burnout is not volume of work but toxic behaviour nearby. In a cross-country survey of 15,000 employees, those who met it often were nearly eight times more likely to show symptoms.
Not a line — the conditions
How long and what it costs
Four facets scored apart from the signs: has this run for months, does it ease away from the work and return with it, what does it cost — in the quality of the work, in relationships, in health — and is there another explanation for it.
Facets inside
- how long it has lasted
- bound to the work
- cost in life
- other explanations
What matters here. The most informative of them is the bond to the work. Heaviness that lets go nowhere and never points not at burnout but at what gets checked before it. The thresholds for these conditions are ours, not clinical cut-offs, and we say so right where we show the result.
Scoring
How the result is calculated
- Step 1
60 statements, five frequency steps
From «never» to «almost always»: twenty facets inside five groups. What counts is how often this happens — there are no right answers.
- Step 2
Some items are reversed
20 of 60 are phrased «the other way round» and flipped when scored — one in every facet, conditions included. They break automatic answers and protect the result from drifting towards whatever the person came for.
- Step 3
The two lines are scored apart
Your state and the environment are different things, not two ends of one ruler: both can be high. That is exactly why the result is a map, not a single score — the point on it shows where to act.
- Step 4
The four conditions are scored apart from the signs
The signs are strong · it has lasted for months · it is bound to the work · it has a real cost. Four matches is not a diagnosis (there is none to give here) and zero matches is not «all fine»: these are your answers brought onto one scale, not clinical cut-offs.
Why there are no percentiles and no «95% accuracy» here
This test has no normative sample and no sensitivity study, so «more burnt out than 72% of people» and any claimed accuracy would be inventions. The scales show how often each sign appears in YOUR answers — enough to see the shape of the profile and to know where to start.
How it goes
How the test goes
Sixty statements about yourself is a conversation with yourself, and we built it so it never turns into an exam: you can stop at any moment and come back.
- 01
One flow, no «Next»
Every statement in a single flow: after you answer, the page glides to the next unanswered one by itself. Five frequency steps, from «never» to «almost always».
- 02
Progress always in sight
The «N of 60 answered» counter and the progress bar stay pinned to the top; unanswered items light up if you try to submit too early.
- 03
Stop and come back
A draft saves itself: close the tab and you will return to the same spot. Before the start we ask one thing only — what you are carrying right now, because it changes both what the load costs and the ways out of it.
The result
What you will see after the test
On the right is a sample result page with the real block structure. The numbers are illustrative — yours will be your own.
Free, right after the test
- Your point on the map of two lines — your own state and what the environment demands
- The checklist of four conditions: what your answers meet and what they do not
- The «something else may explain this» flag — you always see it, payment or not
- The loudest facet of each line, and what genuinely works for you
Full analysis — 790 ₽
- What your pair of lines means: how much has been spent and what is spending it
- What is burning in your case — across the six areas of the environment, with the cause named
- What else produces the same picture: depression, anxiety, sleep loss and apnoea, anaemia and B12, the thyroid
- What is genuinely fine about you — from the reversed items, honestly and specifically
- Where to start given your point on the map — and why exactly there
- Ready-made words: how to ask for conditions to change, and what to answer to «everyone is tired»
- A PDF with your profile and answers — something to show a specialist instead of recalling from memory
Not a subscription and not a course: one payment — a finished reading that stays yours for good. Mir, Visa, Mastercard.
Why this works
What the test stands on
Burnout is a rare case where a product's honesty matters more than its confidence: this state has no diagnosis, no laboratory test and no validated stages. We take what is genuinely established and state the limits plainly.
Not an illness
In the WHO classification burnout is described as a phenomenon arising from chronic workplace stress and placed among factors influencing health — with the explicit note that it is not a medical condition. Hence the first rule of this product: there is no diagnosis here and there cannot be one, in either direction.
3 dimensions
The same classification names three components: exhaustion, increased mental distance from one's work, and a sense of falling effectiveness. All three are measured here by separate groups of facets rather than merged into one score.
6 areas
The causes are conventionally sorted into six areas of working life: workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values. In a meta-analysis of 65 longitudinal studies it is workload, fairness and reward that relate most strongly to exhaustion. That is our second line.
No test for it
A systematic review of 38 biomarkers — cortisol, blood pressure, inflammatory markers and others — found none usable for burnout. So we will never say «take a test, it will show your burnout». Tests exist here for something else entirely: ruling out the states that produce the same picture.
One in two
Among 622 people who described their own state as burnout, 57% had a history of, or a concurrent, mental disorder. That is the typical case rather than the rare one — which is why the «what else explains this» block here is not a footnote but a required part of the reading, and it is free.
No stages
Twelve-stage schemes are popular, but no phase model has ever been confirmed by research: follow-up observations find no regular «burnout process». So this test will not name you a stage or put you on a rung.
60 items
Every statement is written by us. The construct frame is free; the specific items of the well-known questionnaires are not — they are protected and licensed, and we will not copy them. We also have a short free screener, and it stays free: these are different instruments for different jobs.
What the test measures
How often the signs of the two lines appear in your answers about the past three months — and how the four conditions look by those same answers.
What it does not measure
A diagnosis — for burnout none exists at all. And it cannot rule out depression, an anxiety disorder or a physical cause: that is for a clinician, not a questionnaire.
Adults only
The test is written for an adult answering about themselves and their work — a job, studies, their own project or caring for family.
Honest limits. This is an educational tool, not diagnostics and not a consultation. The test has no normative sample — there will be no percentiles, no sensitivity and no «±N accuracy» here, and the thresholds of the four conditions were chosen by us rather than taken from clinical cut-offs. Science still argues about where the line between burnout and depression runs: the correlations are high and a questionnaire cannot reliably separate them — so we will not claim to. The reading prescribes no treatment, discusses no medication and is not grounds for sick leave or any other document. If things are severe right now, what is needed is a live specialist, not a test.
Sounds familiar?
If this rings a bell
Nothing left — from first thing in the morning
Constant tiredness that is not about last night: the day starts in deficit and everything after is done on credit. «Just rest» does not work here, because rest no longer gives it back — and that is a separate measurable facet, not a shade of mood.
The holiday did not help
You came back and within a week it was all as before. That is not a peculiarity of yours: in a meta-analysis of holiday studies, the improvements in wellbeing had vanished within a week of returning to work. A holiday restores energy but does not change what spends it — and the test shows exactly what does.
Apathy and «I do not want anything»
No joy, no anger — just empty, and something done well no longer pleases. One fork matters here: has the joy gone only from the work, or from everything. The answer changes everything, and the test asks it directly.
I hate the work and do not understand why
Irritation at people, counting the hours, «what does it even matter». Distance is not a spoiled character but a protection. The test shows what switches it on: volume, no influence, no gratitude, someone nearby, or a gap with your own values.
I snap at people close to me
A trifle derails the whole day, tears or anger arrive out of proportion, and it lands on people who had nothing to do with it. That is a measurable facet — control over reactions — and the reading shows what is occupying it.
Burnout at home and in caring for family
People burn out outside jobs too: parental and caregiver burnout work the same way, and have fewer exits. That is why every statement in this test is about «the work» rather than «the job», and why we ask at the start what exactly you are carrying.
The method
About the test in detail
What exactly the test measures, how the two lines and 20 facets work, what the four conditions are and why their thresholds are ours, what you get in the reading and what we do not promise — for anyone who wants to understand before taking it.
The test scores two things SEPARATELY, and that is the point of it. The state line is what is happening to you: exhaustion and signals from the body, distance and loss of meaning, loss of response to people, attention and memory, control over reactions, the sense that effort leads nowhere. The environment line is what your work demands: workload, influence over the work, reward and recognition, the people around, fairness, and alignment with your own values.
Four more facets are not signs but conditions, without which the signs cannot be read: how long this has lasted, whether it eases away from the work and returns with it, what it costs, and whether the picture has another explanation. Sixty statements in all, with five frequency steps, of which 20 are reversed — one in every facet. Reversed items break automatic answers and stop the test from agreeing with a person simply because they came for confirmation.
- Signs of the state: nothing left from first thing in the morning, constant tiredness, rest that does not restore, emotional emptiness, apathy, irritation and snapping, brain fog, a sense that effort leads nowhere.
- Signs of the environment: more volume than the time allows, decisions made for you, what you put in not coming back, someone nearby poisoning the work, rules that do not apply equally, having to do what goes against your sense of what is right.
- Conditions: lasting for months · bound to the work · with a real cost · plus a separate «something else may explain this» flag.
The honest answer: the word is not a diagnosis and cannot be given — not by a questionnaire and not by a clinician. But the question has a workable form. Before this state is called burnout, four things are checked: are the signs strong enough; has this run for months rather than a couple of hard weeks; is it bound to the work — does it ease away from it and return with it; and does it cost something real, in the quality of the work, in relationships, in health.
The most informative of the four is the bond to the work. Heaviness that lets go nowhere and never points not at burnout but at what gets checked before it: depression, an anxiety disorder, chronic sleep loss, deficiencies and the thyroid. The thresholds we use are ours, not clinical cut-offs, and we say so right on the result page.
Twelve-stage schemes are popular, but no phase model of burnout has ever been confirmed by research. A review covering more than fifteen thousand scientific publications states it plainly: follow-up observations find no regular «burnout process», and the stages themselves are almost nowhere operationalised — they cannot be told apart in any measurable way.
So this test will not name you a stage or put you on a rung: that would mean inventing a measurement. Instead of a rung there is a point on a map of two lines and four regions: calm, depletion, pressure, and depletion under pressure. These are areas of a map, not degrees of severity, and each implies a different first step.
- Your point on the map of two lines and the region it landed in — with an honest caveat if the point sits near a border.
- All 20 facets with zones: not present, noticeable, strongly present.
- The checklist of four conditions: what your answers meet, what they do not, and what a miss means.
- The «something else may explain this» flag — free and always: depression, anxiety, sleep loss and apnoea, anaemia, low B12 and the thyroid produce exactly the same picture.
- A reading of what is doing the burning: which of the six areas of the environment sounds loudest — given what you are actually carrying.
- What is genuinely fine about you — from the reversed items: that is the material recovery is built from.
- Where to start given your own point on the map, ready-made words for a conversation about conditions, and the route to a live specialist. Plus a PDF with your profile and answers.
It gives no diagnosis and takes none away: there is no diagnosis called burnout, and whatever resembles it is determined by a specialist, not a questionnaire. It names no stages or degrees. It does not separate burnout from depression and does not rule depression out: science itself cannot do that reliably — the correlations are high, and saying so plainly is more honest than feigning confidence.
It prescribes no treatment and discusses no medication or supplements. It provides no grounds for sick leave, a certificate or any document for an employer — and promises none. It does not compare you with other people: the test has no normative sample, so there will be no percentiles and no «±N accuracy» here. And it will not point you at a test that «shows burnout»: no such test exists — laboratory tests are for something else, ruling out what produces the same picture.
Questions
Frequently asked
The things people ask most: how burnout differs from depression and from tiredness, whether there are stages, whether it gets you sick leave, what to do with the result and what exactly you pay for. Answered straight — no small print.
Strictly speaking you cannot: no diagnosis by that name exists — it is a description of a state, not a disease. But the question has a workable form. Four things are looked at: how strong the signs are, whether this has lasted for months, whether it eases away from the work, and what it costs you. The test shows how each of the four looks by your own answers, and separately what in the environment around the work sounds loudest. That is not a yes/no answer but a picture that makes the next step clear.
The honest answer: there is no reliable line, and we will not pretend there is. Meta-analyses find a strong association, and some researchers consider burnout a form of depression outright. The one practical distinction people rely on: burnout is bound to the work and eases away from it, while depression eases nowhere — the joy is gone from what used to bring it too. That is why the test has a facet and a flag for exactly this. But no questionnaire can rule depression out: if nothing brings joy anywhere, that is a reason to see a specialist, not to study a test result.
They are two different instruments, and both live here. The free screener is six questions and a single 0–100 level: a minute to see whether there is anything to look into. This test is 60 statements of our own, two independent lines, 20 facets, four conditions and an AI reading built on your numbers: what exactly is pronounced, what is burning, what else produces the same picture and where to start. One score tells you how bad it is; a map tells you where to act. If in doubt, start with the free screener.
Stages are a popular scheme, not science: no phase model of burnout has been confirmed by research, and follow-up observations find no regular «burnout process». So we will not put you on a rung — that would be an invented measurement. Instead of a stage the test gives you a point on a map of two lines: how much has been spent and what is spending it. Unlike a stage number, that implies a concrete action.
Because we have no right to reproduce it. The Maslach inventory is a commercial instrument: the publisher holds the rights, the licence is paid (around $2.75 per administration), and publishing its items on the open web is explicitly forbidden. The same goes for the areas-of-worklife questionnaire. Translations do not lift the copyright, and the fact that dozens of sites post them is a violation, not a permission. So all 60 statements here are written by us: from other instruments we took only the STRUCTURE of the construct, which is free. We do host a free scale too: the short screener at /oprosniki/vygoranie is built on the Copenhagen inventory, which is in the public domain.
There is no laboratory test for burnout: a systematic review of 38 biomarkers, cortisol included, found none usable. So we will never say «take a cortisol test, it will show your burnout». Tests are for something else, and it matters: ruling out the states that produce the same picture — the thyroid, anaemia and iron deficiency, low B12 and vitamin D. If that is what you want to check, we have a separate lab-result reading that goes through every marker.
No: burnout is not a disease and in itself is not grounds for a medical certificate. Our report is not a medical document either and grants no rights. If things are severe, the place to go is a doctor or a psychotherapist, and the question is settled with them, on what they find. The PDF of this test helps in that conversation in exactly one way: it collects your answers into a single document so the appointment is not spent recalling things from memory.
Because a holiday restores energy but does not change what spends it. Research shows the same: in a meta-analysis, improvements in wellbeing after a holiday had vanished roughly a week after returning to work, and a long holiday worked no better than a short one. That is precisely why the test measures a second line — the environment: if everything comes back within a week, the issue is not the amount of rest but what you are returning to. The reading shows which of the six areas burns hardest.
Yes, and the picture is the same. Formally the WHO classification limits the term to the occupational context, so parental and caregiver burnout is not «burnout by the classification» but the same state in a different environment, and it measures much alike. We built for that: every statement in the test is about «the work» rather than «the job», and before the start we ask what exactly you are carrying — a job, your own business, studies, caring for family, or several loads at once. The answer changes both what the load costs and which ways out even exist.
Laziness is not an explanation we use: it explains nothing and helps no one. Tiredness is a real explanation, and the difference between it and what the test measures is measurable: tiredness passes after a rest, while the key facet here is «rest does not restore». Also, a tired person works slower, whereas here what changes is HOW the head works, and a distance to the work appears that mere tiredness does not produce. If your answers look like ordinary tiredness, the test will say so — that is a result too.
Free: your point on the map of two lines and its region, both lines with zones, the checklist of four conditions and the «something else may explain this» flag — you always see the last one, even if you never buy the reading: we do not earn on protection. For 790 ₽ the full reading opens: what your pair of lines means, which of the six areas of the environment burns hardest, what else produces the same picture, what is fine about you and where to start given your own point. Plus a PDF. One payment, no subscription.
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60 statements, 9–10 minutes. Taking it is free, the map and the four conditions show right away; the full reading is 790 ₽.
Related
Other tests and materials
The burnout profile is one of the section's instruments: alongside it are the character test, the adult ADHD test and the relationship readings. If you need a quick free screener, there is a short six-question scale. What this page rests on is in the source list below.
Sources
- WHO (2019): burn-out in ICD-11 (QD85) — an occupational phenomenon, NOT a medical condition; three dimensions
- Danhof-Pont M. B. et al. (2011): systematic review of 38 burnout biomarkers — none usable, J Psychosom Res
- Tavella G., Parker G. (2024): 57% of people with self-diagnosed burnout had a history of mental disorder, Australasian Psychiatry
- Hillert A. et al. (2020): review across >15,000 publications — no diagnostic criteria for burnout exist, phase models unvalidated, Front Psychiatry
- Koutsimani P. et al. (2019): meta-analysis of burnout with depression and anxiety — different constructs sharing common features, Front Psychol
- Shoman Y. et al. (2022): meta-analysis of 65 longitudinal studies — workload, fairness and reward as predictors of exhaustion, IJERPH
- de Bloom J. et al. (2009): meta-analysis of vacation effects — improvements fade within about a week of returning to work, J Occup Health
- Schaufeli W., Desart S., De Witte H. (2020): Burnout Assessment Tool — the four core dimensions of the construct, KU Leuven
This test is educational: it gives no diagnosis and takes none away — in the WHO classification burnout is not an illness, and no diagnosis for it exists. The reading names no stages, prescribes no treatment, discusses no medication and is not grounds for sick leave or any other document. The same picture is produced by depression, anxiety disorders, chronic sleep loss and sleep apnoea, anaemia and low B12, and thyroid problems — worth checking with a doctor.