Free burnout test
A free, private burnout self-test based on the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) — the validated burnout questionnaire from KU Leuven. Answer 12 or 33 questions about how work feels lately and get a burnout score for exhaustion, mental distance, cognitive impairment and emotional impairment, compared against national norms. It is a proper scored self-check rather than a burnout quiz: every dimension is reported separately, against a published reference population.
This burnout test runs entirely in your browser, so JavaScript needs to be enabled to take it. Your answers are never sent anywhere.
Burnout is more than being tired. The Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) treats burnout as a syndrome with four core dimensions, and this test scores each one separately so you can see which part of burnout is showing up for you:
The full burnout test adds ten secondary burnout symptoms — sleep problems, worrying, tension, headaches, stomach complaints, palpitations, muscle pain and getting sick often — which frequently travel with burnout but are not specific to it.
Most people go looking for a burnout self-assessment because of what they have noticed, not because of a score. The burnout symptoms that show up first tend to look ordinary: needing the whole weekend to feel human and still starting Monday empty; going through the motions at work you used to care about; reading the same email three times without it landing; snapping at someone who did not deserve it. Physical burnout symptoms usually follow — broken sleep despite the exhaustion, headaches, an unsettled stomach, catching everything going round the office.
Any one of those on its own is a bad week. What this test looks at is the pattern: how often each experience applies to you, across all four dimensions at once, and how that compares with a working population. It is also why the ten secondary symptoms are scored separately and never folded into your core score — they are common in burnout but not specific to it, and they turn up in plenty of other conditions that deserve their own attention.
Each burnout symptom is rated from 1 (never) to 5 (always). Your average score per dimension is compared with two published reference sets from the BAT manual: the statistical norms for a representative working population (Netherlands or Flanders), which show whether your burnout score is low, average, high or very high compared with other working people; and the clinical reference values (Flanders), which compare you with people assessed as having severe burnout complaints and give a green / orange / red reading.
No. This is a burnout self-test, not a diagnosis. A high score means burnout complaints worth taking seriously and worth discussing — only a trained professional (in the Netherlands your huisarts or bedrijfsarts; elsewhere your GP or company doctor) can actually assess burnout. If that is the question you are weighing, burnout or depression? covers what a clinician is actually distinguishing between.
That is the question this burnout self-assessment is built to help you think about, and a score alone cannot settle it. The practical difference is recovery: ordinary tiredness lifts after a decent night's sleep, a weekend or a holiday, and burnout does not. Exhaustion that survives rest is the core signal, but it rarely travels alone. If you are also pulling away from the work mentally, losing the thread halfway through a task, or reacting emotionally in ways that feel unlike you, that combination is what the BAT scores as burnout rather than fatigue. The test reports all four dimensions separately, so you can see which ones apply to you and how strongly.
The quick burnout check is 12 questions and takes about two minutes. The full version is 33 questions, roughly five minutes, and gives a more reliable score. You can start with the quick check and upgrade afterwards without repeating answers.
Yes. It is free, needs no account or email address, sets no cookies and loads no trackers. Your answers are scored inside your browser and are never transmitted. The only thing that can ever leave the page is your anonymous average scores, and only if you tick the optional box to contribute them to the industry index.
The Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT), work-related version, developed by Wilmar Schaufeli, Hans De Witte and Steffie Desart at KU Leuven. The items, the Never→Always scale and all thresholds are used unmodified, as the free non-commercial licence requires.
No, and it is worth being clear about that. This is the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) from KU Leuven: a different instrument, with different items, a different four-dimension structure and its own norm and cut-off tables. The MBI — Maslach, Jackson and Leiter's Maslach Burnout Inventory — is the older and better-known burnout questionnaire, but it is a licensed commercial instrument. Its items and manual are sold through its publisher, so no free online burnout test can legitimately reproduce it, and any that claims to is not the real thing. The two are not interchangeable either: a score here is not an MBI score and should never be reported as one. If the MBI is specifically what you need, start with the official Maslach Burnout Inventory manual and licence it from the publisher.
You are welcome to share the link — it is free and needs no account — but treat it as an individual self-assessment rather than an organisational burnout survey. There is no team dashboard, no way to see who took it, and no way to see anyone's answers: every result is scored inside that person's own browser and is never sent anywhere. The only thing collected is the anonymous industry index, which people opt into one at a time and which reports averages by industry, country, age and gender — never by employer. If you need to measure burnout across a specific workforce, that is properly a job for an occupational health professional running the BAT under its own guidance.
Treat it as a prompt, not a verdict. Talk to your GP, company doctor or another health professional about the complaints the test highlighted. If you feel unable to keep yourself safe, contact your local emergency services. What to do about burnout goes through what tends to help and what does not, and who to talk to and what to ask for covers the conversations themselves.
Several, and they run the identical instrument — the items are never reworded for an audience, because that would break the norms the score is read against. What changes is the explanation around them: the student burnout test is honest about using a work-related instrument on coursework, the healthcare version covers moral injury and the disclosure worries clinicians have, and there are pages for teachers and social workers too. If you want the form itself rather than a self-test — the item structure, the scoring rules, what an employer may do with it — that is the burnout questionnaire page. And if you are not burnt out yet but can see it coming, the burnout risk assessment reads the same result for direction rather than verdict.
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