Issue Running after the wave: short-term takeouts crowd out workforce transformation
Summary
McKinsey contrasts organizations chasing initial cost takeouts and short-term productivity with those investing ahead of the curve in workforce transformation for domains where human-agent collaboration is the only route to full value.
Classification
Main topicLabor & Future of Work
Region menusGlobal
Impactscope:global
Time horizon0-3 years (2026-07-26)
Last updated2026-07-29 04:49:52
Evidence 1
- The State of Organizations 2026 McKinsey & Company page=19;section=Technology disruption: Humans and AI agents - Building a new world of collaboration / Issues to address 2026-02 accessed 2026-07-26
Constituent trends 1
Directly linked signals 2
Relation types: constitutes · direct_urgent
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