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AI-AUGMENTED WORKFORCE

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AI and the workforce: The opportunities and challenges of introducing AI in manufacturing

The AI-augmented workforce is becoming an increasingly defining trend, with enterprises adopting intelligent agents and copilots to maximise human productivity and unlock new business value. Microsoft’ s approach highlights this shift: rather than simply automating tasks, the company is redesigning work processes to fully integrate AI into day-to-day operations. Employees are transitioning to roles requiring skills in prompt engineering and AI supervision, while independent AI agents are being deployed to handle meetings, document editing and routine communications autonomously.

48 December 2025