Take the burnout test
Personal, work, and client scores with guidance on what the ranges mean and what to do next.
Resources
Everything on this site in one place: the test, the guide to the instrument behind it, comparisons with other tools, and articles on getting better.
Measure
How we measure burnout and how to decide which next steps fit your context.
The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory
A deep dive into the open CBI, including scoring, benchmarks, and why it underpins our assessment.
Burnout assessment tools compared
CBI, MBI, BAT, and OLBI side by side, to decide which instrument fits your team or research project.
Understand
For yourself, or for the people you support.
What is burnout?
The definition, the signals, and the differences from depression and compassion fatigue. Includes a manager checklist.
Articles
Practical pieces on workload, recovery, compassion fatigue, and manager playbooks.
Resources for teams
Templates and pulse surveys for measuring burnout across a team or department. Email us to ask.
Who writes and checks this
Guidance here is drawn from peer-reviewed research on stress and recovery. We name the studies we rely on and invite independent clinicians to review updates.
Last reviewed
- About Burnout Editorial Team Writers & researchers focused on occupational wellbeing
- Cross-disciplinary team that translates peer-reviewed burnout research into accessible guidance for individuals and organisations. Includes experience in organisational psychology, employee wellbeing programmes, evidence synthesis, and workload design.
- About Burnout Research & Insights Data and literature review contributors
- Responsible for maintaining the burnout assessment, reviewing validation studies, and curating emerging evidence on job demands and recovery. Monitors Copenhagen Burnout Inventory research, stress and resilience studies, and job demands-resources frameworks.
- Clinical review External clinical reviewers (in progress)
- We are actively recruiting licensed clinicians with stress and occupational health expertise to review new content. Reach out via editor@about-burnout.com if you are interested in contributing.
Studies referenced
- Kristensen TS, Borritz M, Villadsen E, Christensen KB (2005). The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory: A new tool for the assessment of burnout. Work & Stress, 19(3), 192–207. View study
- Milfont TL, Denny S, Ameratunga S, Robinson E (2008). Burnout and wellbeing among New Zealand secondary school teachers. Work, 30(4), 357–367.
- Schaufeli WB, Bakker AB (2004). Job demands, job resources, and their relationship with burnout and engagement. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25(3), 293–315.