LinkedIn data suggests over half the workforce in the UAE is “overwhelmed”

There’s not much going on for the UAE in the foreign press — but LinkedIn’s head of MENA and EMEA discussed a workforce sentiment survey in an interview with CNBC (watch, runtime: 1:58), showing that some 67% of professionals in the UAE and Saudi Arabia — 4% higher than the global average — are feeling “overwhelmed” at work.

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