New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- Artificial intelligence is changing not just how work gets done, but how organisations structure teams, develop talent and measure performance. The shift is already visible in India: Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index found that 32% of Indian AI users surveyed qualified as "Frontier Professionals", employees actively redesigning work around AI agents, twice the global average of 16%.

The skills challenge is equally significant. PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer found that skills required in the most AI-exposed jobs are changing more than twice as fast as those in the least exposed jobs. Meanwhile, McKinsey's The State of AI in 2026 found that 40% of respondents from large organisations reported scaling AI agents, u...