Workers are rewriting their LinkedIn histories to add AI skills. Here’s what they’re dropping.0

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• August 24, 2026

Workers are retrospectively adding AI skills to their LinkedIn profiles — while remote-work and DEI language is falling out of favor. That is the finding of a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, which analyzed monthly snapshots of 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles. Nearly a fifth of those accounts had retroactively changed the