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71% -- percentage of employees reporting burnout for full-time staffers (2026)
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Upwork
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https://fortune.com/2024/08/01/ai-dilemma-bosses-ai-drive-productivity-employee-workload-burnout/ ↗
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Bosses want to use AI to boost productivity—but 77% of employees say it just creates more work | Fortune
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Employers have long been touting that AI will make workers’ jobs easier by cutting out their busywork and freeing time up for other more engaging pursuits. But as it turns out, the new tech may be only making their lives harder.
While the vast majority of C-suite leaders believe AI wil…
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full-time staffers: 71% percentage of employees reporting burnout. Source: Upwork (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/employees-report-burnout
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