State of IT jobs: AI boosts salaries but also burnout and the gender gap

Companies are offering higher salaries to recruit workers with specialized artificial intelligence skills. Daily use of these tools has doubled employee burnout, and women secure only 26 percent of new AI positions. Human resources teams must now manage employee exhaustion alongside unequal hiring outcomes.

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