Motyv: Work Motivation Test

There's a tiredness that sleep doesn't fix. Nothing is obviously wrong — you simply can't name what's off. Most advice asks you to change: sleep more, meditate, practice gratitude. Motyv looks at the other half of the equation. It measures the job, not you. In about three minutes, you rate five aspects of the work you actually do. You get a single number from 0 to 100, and a clear picture of exactly which part is dragging the rest down. The model behind it is the Job Characteristics Model, developed by Hackman and Oldham in 1975 and used in organizational psychology for fifty years. It looks at five things: Task Significance, whether your work changes anything for anyone; Skill Variety, whether it draws on more than one skill you have; Task Identity, whether you ever finish something whole rather than a fragment of it; Autonomy, how much say you have in how the work gets done; and…