New LinkedIn study reveals the secret that a third of professionals are hiding at work

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ZDNET's key takeaways 

• AI's fast nature and the need to upskill are overwhelming workers.
• Learning about AI feels like a second job to workers.
• Forty-one percent say AI's pace impacts their well-being.

Staying up with AI's changing landscape is getting workers down. Forty-one percent of professionals report AI's current pace is impacting their well-being, and more than half of professionals say learning about AI feels like another job in and of itself, according to the latest research by LinkedIn. 

LinkedIn monitored conversations on the platform that included the words "overwhelm" or "overwhelmed," "burn out," and "navigating change" from July 2024 through June 2025, while also keeping an eye on AI topics and keywords around that same time. 

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