... according to a work trend index published Wednesday by Microsoft
Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb here and call bullshit. No one is turning to AI to alleviate burnout. The only tasks these LLM tools can reliability accomplish aren't worth using an LLM for.
Not a day goes by where I don't use our company's internal LLM instance to generate or debug some code. It isn't due to burnout, it's due to convenience.