Is AI Causing Employee Burnout – Or Curing It?

Is AI Causing Employee Burnout – Or Curing It?

From UC Today by UC Today

April 27, 2026 · 11 min

About this episode

The episode discusses AI's impact on employee burnout and its potential to enhance the employee experience.

In this interview, Christopher Carey sits down with Snorre Kjesbu from Cisco to unpack AI’s real impact on the employee experience. Snorre makes the case that AI is an antidote to burnout, not a cause of it – freeing employees from busy work so they can focus on strategy, creativity, and the harder intellectual challenges. He also introduces the concept of “connected intelligence,” where collaboration is no longer just people-to-people but now includes people-to-AI and AI-to-AI interactions....

People in this episode

Host: Christopher Carey

Guest: Snorre Kjesbu

Topics covered

  • AI
  • employee experience
  • burnout
  • connected intelligence
  • collaboration
  • productivity

Keywords

  • AI
  • employee burnout
  • productivity
  • connected intelligence
  • collaboration
  • Cisco

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Organizations: Cisco

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