The workplace is evolving from basic digital tools to smarter, human-centric experiences. As organizations advance through successive horizons of transformation, from productivity-focused digitalization to artificial intelligence (AI)-first, sentient enterprises, the focus is shifting toward harmonizing work, workforce, and workspace around the human experience. This evolution is powered by agentic systems, human-AI collaboration, and sustainable, connected environments that together define the future of work.
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H1 — Cloud-powered collaboration
H2 — AI-powered collaboration
H3 — AI-first collaboration
Multiagent collaboration focuses on the enterprise application of distributed AI agents working alongside humans to automate complex processes and accelerate decision-making. By distributing intelligence across specialized agents, organizations can enable dynamic workflows, real-time adaptability, and advanced problem-solving that go beyond traditional single-agent approaches.
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Task-centric work hubs bring together collaboration tools, workflow automation, and intelligent agents within a single digital environment. Rather than switching between disconnected applications, employees can access tasks, approvals, and knowledge in context, improving decision-making speed and execution quality across hybrid workplaces.
View moreH1 — End-user computing
H2 — Cloud-managed endpoints
H3 — AI-powered endpoints
Sustainability is becoming a cornerstone of device life cycle management strategies. Organizations are increasingly prioritizing hardware that supports circularity, meaning devices are designed for reuse, refurbishment, and recycling. Leading hardware providers like Apple, HP, Dell, and Lenovo are embedding sustainability into their product lines by offering modular designs, energy-efficient components, and extended device lifespans.
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The integration of AI into endpoint management is upgrading traditional reactive support into proactive and predictive operations. AI-powered tools now enable real-time anomaly detection, identifying potential issues before they impact end-user productivity.
View moreH1 — Secure workplace with policy-driven controls
H2 — Zero trust-enabled hybrid workplace
H3 — Elevated security with composite AI
Browser security has progressed from static, rule-based methods to proactive, intelligent protection. Traditional browser controls relied on whitelisting and blacklisting, which offered limited defense against modern web threats. Browser isolation introduced a stronger model by executing web content in remote containers, preventing malware and phishing from reaching user endpoints. However, it often affected performance and integration.
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Incident response has evolved from manual processes to automated, intelligence-driven systems. In earlier models, security teams relied on alerts from firewalls and antivirus tools, managing incidents through basic workflows that slowed detection and limited visibility. The adoption of security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platforms improved automation and collaboration, yet the growing complexity of cyberattacks now demands faster, more predictive responses.
View moreH1 — Point and packaged employee experience solutions
H2 — Digital, unified, and sentient experience
H3 — AI-first employee experience
Enterprises are looking to create AI-first experiences that place employees at the center, responding to their questions and supporting them with their tasks. Intelligent knowledge networks turn structured and unstructured data into findable, actionable knowledge that adapts to user needs. As workplaces advance toward H3, tools will evolve from basic collaboration between humans and siloed AI bots to unified digital avatars and AI assistants that enhance human potential across core enterprise functions.
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While AI-driven interfaces unify digital interactions, immersive technologies like mixed reality (MR) are reshaping physical engagement. MR is transforming how employees and visitors interact with modern workplaces by blending physical and digital environments into a smooth experience. For employees, MR enables immersive collaboration beyond traditional screens. Virtual meeting spaces allow teams across geographies to interact, as if they were in the same room, fostering creativity and reducing communication barriers.
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H2 — Collaborative workplace
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H3 — AI-led hyperpersonalized, secure, and immersive collaboration
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UC is entering an AI-driven era with real-time call quality monitoring and self-healing capabilities. UC systems can autonomously detect issues such as latency and packet loss, trigger diagnostics, and optimize configurations or network paths to maintain call quality. This shift from reactive maintenance to proactive service assurance reduces downtime, enhances user experience, and transforms UC operations.
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Voice AI is transforming enterprise operations — from customer service to internal communications through agentic, human-like conversations and hyperpersonalized self-service that lowers contact center costs. Evolving from reactive support to proactive experience hubs, voice AI powered by generative AI enables intelligent interactions. As AI agents handle routine tasks, human agents focus on complex, empathy-driven engagements, redefining customer experience and positioning contact centers as strategic growth drivers.
View moreH1 – Standalone solutions
H2 – Integrated workspaces
H3 – Smart and sustainable workspaces
To facilitate collaboration among teams, offices should be designed with agile spaces that encourage formal, informal, and remote interactions. Design elements like studios and café-style seating enhance creativity and teamwork. Organizations can leverage data analytics and real-time sensor technology to maximize space utilization, optimize building operations, manage energy usage efficiently, and enhance the overall office experience for employees.
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Today’s businesses leverage smart technologies like energy utilization dashboards, smart lighting, and real-time monitoring to pursue carbon neutrality. They integrate these tools for energy forecasting and operational optimization. Internet of things (IoT)-connected building assets provide ongoing health updates, while technicians equipped with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) tools swiftly diagnose and resolve issues.
View moreH1 — Human-centric service desk
H2 — User-centric service desk
H3 — AI-first service desk
In today’s globalized and hybrid work environment, service desks are increasingly supporting users across geographies, cultures, and languages. To meet this demand, organizations are leveraging real-time language translation technologies to enhance service desk efficiency, inclusivity, and user satisfaction. AI bots can now converse in multiple languages using NLP and machine translation, automatically detecting the user’s language and responding accordingly.
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As enterprises face the limitations of traditional IVRs and flow-based conversational platforms, agentic voice AI is redefining voice interactions with smooth, autonomous, and human-like conversations at scale. These agents leverage advanced LLMs to manage real-time decision-making, proactively address user needs, and handle complex, multistep interactions.
View moreH1 — Digital learning
H2 – Hybrid learning
H3 – AI-first approach to learning
Agentic AI is redefining enterprise learning by enabling personalized, scalable, and adaptive learning through technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), LLMs, and intelligent learning agents. Unlike static content, these systems respond dynamically to each learner’s performance, preferences, and goals. Real-time data analytics and cloud-native platforms further enhance learning outcomes by delivering contextually relevant, interactive experiences.
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Generative AI is transforming experiential learning by creating realistic, scenario-based simulations that allow learners to practice skills in safe, interactive environments. These simulations replicate complex, real-world conditions — helping learners make decisions, experiment, and improve retention. The integration of AI with animation, domain expertise, and contextual data is enabling scalable, high-fidelity simulation experiences across industries.
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Generative AI is revolutionizing learning content delivery by tailoring modalities to individual cognitive styles, preferences, and goals. Moving beyond static e-learning modules, it enables dynamic experiences through conversational dialogues, storytelling, active recall, and real-time summarization. AI tutors adapt content based on performance and feedback, enhancing motivation and retention.
View moreH1 – Employee surveys and self-service
H2 — DEX tools and automation
H3 — Integrated experience management
The DEX strategy began with measuring device experiences and gradually expanded to cover digital employee experiences across devices, applications, networks, and other services. With foundational DEX programs in place, organizations are now asking: “How do we make sense of the wealth of data collected? What actionable insights can we derive?” AI assistants and workplace agents are playing a pivotal role in this shift, enabling organizations to drive decisions, orchestrate workflows, and enhance employee experiences.
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Experience management offices (XMOs) are increasingly central to shaping workplace experiences. By owning, managing, and aligning workplace experience initiatives, XMOs identify pain points, prescribe improvement actions, and track outcomes. Realizing the value of these initiatives requires a structured change and adoption strategy that works hand in hand with the XMO.
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