AI is redefining the workforce — and most planning models aren’t ready

Presented by SAPHR tracks employees and skills. Finance owns headcount targets and cost. Procurement manages contractors and services spend. Together, they leave executives unable to answer basic questions about how workforce decisions actually translate into business outcomes.Fragmented planning creates workforce blind spotsEach function has its own systems, its own planning cadence, and its own assumptions about how work gets done. Recent SAP research found that 62% of C-suite executives are dissatisfied with their current level of integration between people and business performance data. The same research found that while 50% of organizations are planning for AI’s impact on productivity and capacity, only 21% are planning for AI’s impact on job design and organizational structure. That gap matters because the two are inseparable. You can’t make a sound decision about where to automate without understanding how it will affect the teams, roles, and skills connected to that work. Most organizations are trying to do exactly that, and discovering, usually too late, that the pieces don’t fit together.The workforce has quietly expanded — and planning hasn’t caught upThe definition of …