diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index ea3142cdb1..c364838016 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   before_action :store_user_location!, if: :storable_location?
   before_action :authenticate_user!
   before_action :set_current_user
+  before_action :set_timeout_duration
   before_action :set_current_organization
   after_action :verify_authorized, except: :index, unless: :devise_controller?
   # after_action :verify_policy_scoped, only: :index
@@ -101,6 +102,12 @@ def set_current_user
     RequestStore.store[:current_user] = current_user
   end
 
+  def set_timeout_duration
+    return unless current_user
+
+    @timeout_duration = current_user.timeout_in
+  end
+
   def set_current_organization
     RequestStore.store[:current_organization] = current_organization
   end
diff --git a/app/javascript/src/session_timeout_poller.js b/app/javascript/src/session_timeout_poller.js
index 155b27819d..a42478801a 100644
--- a/app/javascript/src/session_timeout_poller.js
+++ b/app/javascript/src/session_timeout_poller.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-const deviseTimeoutInMinutes = 180
-const twoMinuteWarning = deviseTimeoutInMinutes - 2
+const timeout = window.timeout || 180
+const twoMinuteWarning = timeout - 2
 const totalTimerAmount = twoMinuteWarning * 60 * 1000
-const deviseTimeoutInMilliseconds = deviseTimeoutInMinutes * 60 * 1000
+const deviseTimeoutInMilliseconds = timeout * 60 * 1000
 const startTime = new Date().getTime()
 let lastTime = new Date().getTime()
 let currentTime
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ setInterval(myTimer, 1000)
 function myTimer () {
   timeElapsed = Math.abs(lastTime - startTime)
   currentTime = new Date().getTime()
-  // console.log('Should go up by 1 second', timeElapsed)
   if (timeElapsed > deviseTimeoutInMilliseconds) {
     window.location.reload()
   } else if (timeElapsed > totalTimerAmount) {
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb b/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
index 55a69148a5..a8fe1fbebf 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
   <%= og_tag :image, content: image_url('login.jpg') %>
 
   <%= render 'shared/favicons' %>
+  <script>
+    window.timeout = <%= @timeout_duration.to_json %>
+  </script>
 
   <%= javascript_include_tag "application", "data-turbo-track": "reload", defer: true %>
   <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", "data-turbo-track": "reload" %>
diff --git a/spec/system/application/timeout_warning_spec.rb b/spec/system/application/timeout_warning_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bc6db8d4ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/system/application/timeout_warning_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+require "rails_helper"
+
+RSpec.describe "/*", type: :system do
+  context "when user is signed in" do
+    let(:user) { create(:volunteer) }
+    before do
+      sign_in user
+    end
+    it "renders the seconds before logout as a javascript variable" do
+      visit "/"
+      parsed_page = Nokogiri::HTML(page.html)
+      expect(parsed_page.at("script").text.strip).to include(user.timeout_in.in_seconds.to_s)
+    end
+  end
+end