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Employer context
Select a tracked employer, an unlisted employer, or choose not to say. A listed company adds current Corporate Stress Index context.
Free job security test · Seven questions
Job Threat Check.Is your job at risk?
Get a clearer view of the pressure around your role.
Make sense of changes around your company, team and role. Answer seven questions about the past 90 days and get a workplace-pressure score, the strongest signals behind it and practical next steps.
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About two minutes. No email required to see your result.
Seven questionsCompany context and your own observations.
Your result explainedA score, explanation and action plan.
Clear meaningWorkplace pressure, not a layoff probability.
Free · Seven questions · No email required
My Job Threat Check
See whether the changes happening around your company, team, and position form a meaningful pattern of workplace pressure.
0–100 pressure signal score
Plain-English explanation
Practical next steps
Answer based on what you have observed over the past 90 days.
Question 1 of 7
Past 90 days
Your Job Pressure Signal Score
Why you received this result
What may still be working in your favor
Evidence notes
What not to do
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What the assessment looks at
Seven questions. One connected picture.
A company announcement and a change to your own responsibilities are different kinds of evidence. The check brings them together without assuming every employee faces the same situation.
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Your role
Choose the closest role category. This helps describe your work alongside the changes you have observed.
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Company decisions
Review the strongest cost-cutting or restructuring signal, from general discussions to confirmed reductions affecting your division.
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Team staffing
Consider unfilled roles, frozen hiring, combined jobs, a team merger or a headcount-reduction target.
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Pressure directed at you
Identify changes in monitoring, feedback, performance documentation, formal warnings or pressure to leave.
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Responsibilities and access
Review whether your projects, clients, authority, access or involvement in decisions have been reduced.
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Where your work is going
Consider whether your work is being documented or transferred to another person, vendor, offshore team or automated system.
Know what you will receive
A result you can understand and act on.
The score comes with an explanation, the strongest contributing signals, the limits of the available information and suggested next steps.
Sample assessment
An employee reports company-wide cost cutting, several unfilled roles and repeated negative feedback. They are included in fewer decisions, and work transfer has been discussed. They choose not to identify their employer.
The current assessment calculates the example shown here. It is not a customer testimonial or a result assigned to you.
Understand your result
How the Job Threat Check works.
The check considers changes you report about your company, team and role, alongside public company context when your employer is tracked. Your result explains the main signals and practical steps to consider.
Read the score as workplace pressure. A higher score reflects more or stronger warning signs. It is not a percentage chance of losing your job.
Use the explanation alongside the number. It highlights contributing signals, factors that may still be working in your favour and gaps in the available information.
How it differs from the Layoff Tracker + Corporate Stress Index
The tracker follows public signals around employers. The Job Threat Check adds what you report about your immediate team, responsibilities and personal employment pressure. Two employees at the same company can therefore receive different results.
Read the Corporate Stress Index methodology and explore its dated company snapshots.
Who is behind it
Built around the employee’s view.
The Grind Hotline is a worker-first global media and workplace intelligence platform. Its reporting connects company decisions with questions employees can ask about their own work.
Founder Harj Singh is an ex-banker and former global sales leader who lost his job twice in five years. That experience informs the platform’s focus on warning signs, preparation and career options.
Before you start
Questions about your job security.
Can this tell me whether I will be laid off?
It can help you assess the pressure visible around your job. It cannot see confidential staffing plans or calculate your probability of losing your job. A score of 36/100 means 36 points of workplace pressure, not a 36% chance of a layoff.
What if my employer is not listed?
Choose “My employer is not listed” in the assessment. You can still get a result from your answers. The result will identify the missing company context rather than treat it as proof that your employer is safe.
Is this useful if I am worried about being fired?
Yes. Questions cover increased monitoring, written negative feedback, formal warnings, a performance-improvement plan and direct pressure to leave. The result helps you organise those observations. It does not determine an employer’s intention or your employment rights.
Does the test assess AI risk to my job?
It asks about work being transferred to an automated system, vendor, offshore team or another employee. It does not forecast which occupation AI will replace or when. Actual changes to your work matter more here than a prediction based only on your job title.
Do I need to provide my name or email?
No name, account or email is required to see your result. You can also choose not to identify your employer. Assessment answers and results are recorded as described in the data notes below.
When should I take the check again?
Retake it after a material change, such as a team merger, responsibilities being removed or a formal performance action. Retaking it repeatedly without new information does not add evidence.
What happens to my assessment answers?
Your answers are sent to The Grind Hotline’s assessment service to calculate your result. The tool records employer selection, role category, answer choices, the score, result level and information-confidence label.
You do not need to provide a name or email to receive a result. You can select an unlisted employer or choose not to identify your employer. That does not mean the assessment runs only on your device or that no response data is stored.
Contact The Grind Hotline with questions about response data.
Put the signals in context
Read more about what changed.
Start with what you can observe
Check the pressure around your job.
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