What this measures
Burnout rarely announces itself. It shows up as the colleague you used to enjoy now grating on you, as Sunday-night dread that starts on Friday, as the strange flatness of completing work that should have felt good. Most people read these signals as evidence that they need more discipline. Occupational psychology reads them as the three-dimensional construct Christina Maslach has spent five decades documenting: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment, each measurable and each pulling in a slightly different direction.
How it works
The questions are adapted from the Maslach Burnout Inventory, developed by Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson at UC Berkeley and validated across more than four decades of occupational research. Twelve items measure how often you experience each of the three dimensions on a six-point frequency scale, from 'never' to 'every day.' Personal accomplishment items are scored inversely, since competence buffers exhaustion. Your highest dimension reveals which part of the burnout cascade is hitting hardest right now.
What you'll get
You'll see a percentile breakdown across all three dimensions, a written profile of your dominant pattern, and a research-backed action plan tied to that specific dimension. Emotional exhaustion gets a recovery-load protocol. Depersonalization gets autonomy interventions. Reduced efficacy gets a scope-shrinking strategy. The output reads in under two minutes.
The Burnout Score Calculator
Measure the three dimensions of occupational burnout
Based on the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), developed by Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson at UC Berkeley — the most widely validated burnout assessment in occupational psychology.
Takes about 2 minutes