Signal Professional services and TMT lead in pursuing AI-driven productivity gains

Summary

McKinsey's 2026 survey finds professional services (64 percent) and technology, media, and telecommunications (62 percent) concentrate most on building an AI-savvy workforce for exponential productivity gains, against a 53 percent average across other industries.

Classification

Main topicIndustry & Supply Chains

Secondary topicsLabor & Future of Work AI & Computing

Region menusGlobal

Occurrencescope:global

Impactscope:global

Time horizon0-3 years (2026-07-26)

Last updated2026-07-29 04:49:53

Evidence 1

The State of Organizations 2026 McKinsey & Company page=18;section=Technology disruption: Humans and AI agents - Building a new world of collaboration / Benefits of getting it right 2026-02 accessed 2026-07-26

Part of trends 1

TrendShift 2: work is redesigned around human-agent collaboration rather than agent insertion14 signals

Directly linked issues 0

No objects.

Relation types: supports

Public id: fm-1d1295a07328