Workforce Transformation: AI Impact on Enterprise Roles

A conversation we keep having with CEOs goes something like this. They ask, “Is AI going to cost us headcount?” What they are often hoping for is a clean answer — yes or no, this percentage, over this many years. The honest answer is messier: AI reshapes roles, but it reshapes them unevenly. Some functions compress dramatically. Some functions grow. Some stay almost unchanged. The enterprise-wide “AI displaces N percent of jobs” number is the wrong frame for almost every practical decision a lea