A quiet but growing form of workplace exhaustion is sweeping through offices, and it has little to do with long hours, tight deadlines, or heavy workloads. Instead, it stems from the rapid spread of AI across white-collar jobs. AI fatigue, also called “AI burnout," is the psychological and cognitive strain workers feel when they must constantly adapt to AI-driven tools that are meant to make their work easier but often end up complicating it.

Employees across IT, finance, customer support, media, consulting, and even government-backed projects increasingly describe a new pattern of stress. They are not overwhelmed by automation replacing their work. They are overwhelmed by having to work around automation: fixing AI’s mistakes, reformatting outputs, switching between multiple interfaces,

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