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Detect: the two-week burnout read. One anonymous, research-grade survey across the teams you're watching, read back to you in the room fourteen days later. Where the risk sits, what's driving it, and an honest call on whether it's worth doing anything more.
In short
Detect is a 2-week burnout survey for leadership teams who want to know whether they have a burnout problem, and where. One anonymous, research-grade survey (built on the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory) goes to up to 300 people, and we read the results back to you in a 60-minute executive readout. It's $2,500, fixed, and the full fee counts toward the audit or Activate if you start within 90 days.
Length
2 weeks
Format
Survey + executive readout
Scope
15–300 people
Sponsor
CEO · GM · VP HR or Ops · HR Director
Investment
$2,500, fixed
Why Detect
A leader who used to argue in meetings has gone quiet. Two people on the same team asked about the PTO policy in the same month. The engineering manager keeps saying "we're fine" in a voice that isn't. None of it is enough to take to a budget conversation — and by the time it is, someone has taken a recruiter's call.
Burnout moves faster than annual instruments. Detect measures exhaustion and disengagement now, team by team, against published risk bands — not against how people felt in March.
The full Burnout & Retention Audit adds confidential listening sessions and a 90-day plan. Most organizations should start with the smaller question: is there a problem, and where? Detect answers that in two weeks for a fixed fee.
You leave the readout with three things to change first and a clear recommendation on what to do next — which is sometimes "nothing more than this."
How it works
Which teams, which segments, what you're already hearing. We tune the survey wording to your organization and agree how you'll ask people to take it — the announcement matters more than the instrument.
Ten to twelve minutes, anonymous, built on the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory — an open-access, research-grade instrument with published risk bands, not a wellness poll. Everyone in scope, up to 300 people. We handle the send, the reminders, and the participation tracking.
Scores by team and function against the published bands, then mapped to the four causes that actually drive burnout: workload design, priority clarity, recovery norms, and whether managers are reading early signals.
In the room or on video, with you and whoever needs to hear it. Where the risk is concentrated, what's driving it, three priorities, and an honest recommendation on what to do next.
What you get
If Detect says the deeper work is warranted, the full $2,500 credits toward the Burnout & Retention Audit or Activate, started within 90 days. If it says your system is healthier than you feared, that is exactly what the readout will say.
Detect only works if people believe their honesty can't come back on them. So the protections aren't fine print; they're the method:
Fit
Questions
Depth and time. Detect uses the same instrument and the same four-cause framework as the Burnout & Retention Audit — it's the first read, not a lighter method. What it leaves out is the confidential listening sessions and the prioritized 90-day plan, which is where the audit earns its price. Detect tells you whether and where; the audit tells you why and what to do about it. The $2,500 credits toward an audit that starts within 90 days.
Ten to twelve minutes for anyone taking the survey. Your sponsor spends roughly two hours in total: the set-up call and the readout.
Yes. The set-up call is the only prerequisite. Once scope and wording are agreed, the survey can go out within two to three business days — most of the lead time is your own internal announcement.
More than on an internal one. The survey is hosted and read by Brightwork, not your HR system; nothing is reported for groups under five; and nothing is attributable. Honesty also rises when leadership announces it as "help us fix the system," not "help us find problems people."
Only Brightwork. Your organization receives aggregated results by team and function, the four-cause map, and the written summary. Raw responses never leave our side, and we're glad to put the data-handling terms in the agreement.
$2,500, fixed, for up to 300 people in scope. Paid on signature. There are no per-seat fees or add-ons. If you go on to the audit or Activate within 90 days, the full $2,500 comes off that fee.
Where it leads
One path, three places to stop. Each step contains the one before it, and whatever you paid for the first step counts toward the next.
Adds confidential listening sessions and a full-day Findings Session where your leadership team turns the results into a 90-day action plan. Ends when the plan is handed to you. From $8,500; your Detect fee credits toward it.
Audit details →The audit and Findings Session, plus six bi-weekly sessions across the ninety days where Faye leads the plan's execution. $14,000; your Detect fee credits toward it.
How Activate works →Before you decide
Article
What each instrument measures, why a strong engagement score can hide high burnout risk, and when to use which.
Executive brief
The pattern, why experienced leaders hide it, the conditions that create it, and the questions to ask your leadership team this quarter.
Next step
Tell us which teams you're watching and what you're hearing. We'll tell you whether Detect will answer the question — and it can be in the field within a week of the call.