The rise of the agentic workforce: Redefining how India works

By Gautam Goenka, SVP Engineering & Site Head at UiPath

For much of the past decade, discussions around AI in the workplace have been dominated by a single question: Which jobs will automation replace? In India, where enterprises operate at a significantly large scale and across complex regulatory and operational environments, this question often comes with understandable anxiety. But it is also the wrong question. The shift now underway is not about replacing people with machines. It is about redesigning the workforce itself, where humans, AI agents, and automation work together as an integrated system.

This is the emergence of the agentic workforce.

From task execution to intelligent orchestration

Traditional workforce models are built around static roles and manual coordination. Work is assigned to people, automation is bolted on to improve efficiency, and AI is deployed in pockets to solve narrow problems. While this approach delivered incremental ...