The Workplace Fitness Burnout Index

The jobs that leave Americans with the least room for exercise.

Work can take up more than the hours on the clock. Bespoke Fit compared 155 jobs to see where long weeks, commuting and workplace sitting may leave the least room for exercise outside work.

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Architectural and engineering managers

88.78index score out of 100
44.4hours a week
26.4minute commute
86.5%of workday sitting

The headline finding

One ranking, two different pressures.

The highest-ranking jobs are not all desk based. Some combine long weeks with extensive sitting. Others involve long or demanding shifts that can leave less time or capacity for a separate workout.

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Top detailed job

Architectural and engineering managers

A long working week and a highly sedentary day place this role first overall.

  1. 02Firefighters86.58
  2. 03First-line supervisors of police and detectives85.70
  3. 04First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers85.62
  4. 05Construction managers84.81

What the score means: A higher score indicates greater potential time and sedentary barriers to exercise. It is not a measure of stress, health or clinical burnout.

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    Top industry

    Transportation and warehousing

    73.82

    It has the highest industry score, with 30.8% reporting no leisure-time exercise and an average working week of 41.1 hours.

    Top occupation group

    Construction and extraction

    73.00

    It ranks first among broad occupation groups. One in three report no leisure-time exercise, despite the work itself often being physical.

    Methodology

    How the index was built.

    The study brings together national data on working time, commuting, workplace sitting and leisure-time exercise. Only records with complete data were ranked.

    Detailed jobs

    The 155 detailed jobs were scored using average weekly hours, average one-way commute and the share of the working day spent sitting.

    • Weekly hours: 50%
    • One-way commute: 30%
    • Workday sitting: 20%

    Direct leisure-time exercise data were not available at this detailed job level.

    Industries and occupation groups

    The 18 industries and 21 broad occupation groups were scored using reported leisure-time inactivity, weekly hours and workday sitting.

    • No leisure-time exercise: 45%
    • Weekly hours: 35%
    • Workday sitting: 20%
    Scoring and sources

    Each metric was converted to a percentile rank. Weighted percentiles were combined and multiplied by 100. Higher scores indicate greater potential barriers to exercise.

    Sources: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey 2024; US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Requirements Survey 2025 preliminary and Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics May 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 1-Year PUMS.

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