In 2019, the world was hit by the pandemic of the respiratory disease COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Since the disease spread very quickly, various social distancing measures were taken to prevent it. This was also reflected in the aspect of education, where shortly after the declaration of the pandemic, classic contact classes were replaced by distance classes. At that time, teachers and students had to find their way very quickly in the teaching form of the educational process, which they had not practiced before. Such a form of teaching, among other things, required the teacher to possess various information and communication competencies. In that period, we started to think a little more about the workload of the teachers themselves. This paper deals with the workload of teachers of the Croatian language, who even before the pandemic had a wide scope of work, which became even more complex with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this research was to examine how much the teachers of the Croatian language were really burdened during distance learning. The workload of teachers of the Croatian language was examined through the categories of self-assessment of their own competences and workload with teaching (preparation for teaching, performance of teaching, evaluation of students) and non-teaching work tasks. The obtained results were compared considering to gender, place of work (primary or secondary school) and length of service. The results of this research showed that teachers of the Croatian language during the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e. distance learning, were very burdened - both with teaching and non-teaching work tasks, regardless of the fact that they rate their own competencies as high. It turned out that women are more burdened than men, and people with less work experience are more burdened than those with more years of work experience. Differences in the workload of Croatian teachers in primary schools compared to Croatian teachers in secondary schools were not noticed.