2026 People Readiness Report: Workforce readiness and AI - Kyndryl

Your competitors aren't winning with AI because they bought better tools. They're winning because their teams actually use them. A new Kyndryl report shows 57% of companies now have AI embedded in co

Your competitors aren't winning with AI because they bought better tools. They're winning because their teams actually use them.

A new Kyndryl report shows 57% of companies now have AI embedded in core business processes. Last year that number was 35%. That's not a trend — that's a gap widening every quarter.

But here's what the headline misses: adoption isn't about the software. It's about whether your people trust it enough to change how they work.

That "AI tool nobody uses" sitting in your tech stack? It didn't fail because AI doesn't work. It failed because nobody on your team was shown a clear reason to use it on a Tuesday afternoon when they're already behind on three other things.

The businesses pulling ahead right now picked ONE repetitive task — a report, a first draft, a customer response template — and built a simple habit around it. No ripping out systems. No retraining everyone. Just one task, measurably faster.

Start there. One task. Thirty days. Measure the time saved. That's your proof of concept — and your team's first reason to trust it.

What was the last AI tool your business bought that quietly died on the shelf?

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57% say AI is embedded in core business processes or deployed broadly across the enterprise; last year, 35% said AI was fully integrated across their ...