One in five LinkedIn users rewrites jobs they have already left, to better match their future career path
Using 2020 to 2026 Revelio Labs data, economists found 19.7% of U.S. LinkedIn users retroactively edit past jobs, often around switching employers. The rewrites add AI language after 2022, drop remote-work and DEI terms, and show a post-ChatGPT surge in LLM-style writing.
