India, Sept. 16 -- For a few years now, every HR technology conversation has run on the same script: generative AI will make your team faster. Job descriptions in seconds. Performance reviews summarized in a click. Resumes found with a plain-English prompt. All true, all useful. And all of it, if we're honest, incremental.

What's arriving now is a paradigm shift in comparison. Agentic AI doesn't assist work. It does the work - on its own, around the clock, across the whole enterprise. That sounds like vendor talk, I know. It isn't. The move from assisted to agentic changes what software actually is within an organisation, and I think it's the biggest inflection point HR leaders will deal with this decade.

HR productivity used to mean on...