2026 Research programme

Hum@ins at Work

What remains after AI?

A cross-sector research programme capturing how senior leaders are navigating the shift to AI-augmented operations across nine business functions and six core themes.

Each interview covers eight questions: three universal questions asked across every function, and five tailored to your specific role. Thirty minutes on Zoom. Questions shared in advance. Limited to 100 interviews across all nine functions for the 2026 report.

Find the questions for your function

Every interview is eight questions. Three are asked across all nine functions, and five are tailored to your role. Choose your function below to preview the full set.

People & culture

Target audience: CHROs, people directors, L&D leaders and heads of talent

People teams sit at the centre of AI adoption, responsible for workforce planning, skills development, change management and employee experience at a time when all four are being reshaped at once. The pressure to upskill quickly is real, but so is the risk of changing jobs faster than people can adapt.

Universal · asked in every interview

Three questions every leader answers

Function-specific · People & culture

Five questions tailored to your function

  1. 4

    How are you redesigning roles and career paths when AI takes on routine work that previously helped people learn the job?

  2. 5

    What does practical AI upskilling look like in your organisation, and how do you know whether it is actually changing how people work?

  3. 6

    How are you managing change fatigue when AI adoption sits on top of everything else your teams are already absorbing?

  4. 7

    How are you approaching workforce planning when demand for certain skills is shifting faster than your hiring or reskilling cycles can respond?

  5. 8

    Where are you drawing the line on AI use within the people function itself, for example in recruitment, performance management or pay decisions?

Ready to be interviewed for People & culture?

30 minutes on Zoom. Questions shared in advance. Your one-pager published on the TechPros insights platform and included in the 2026 report.

What participants receive

A full-page write-up

A polished one-pager of your perspectives, written by TechPros, for you to use as you wish.

Insights publication

Featured on the TechPros insights platform and shared with senior leaders via LinkedIn.

Early access to the 2026 report

See how your views compare to peers across nine functions before the report goes public.

Roundtable invitations

Invitation to relevant Challenge Forum roundtables with other senior leaders in your function.

Podcast option

Option to appear on the Enterprise Thought Leadership Podcast to expand on your one-pager.

The interview process

1

Optional briefing call

15 min

TechPros walks through the format, confirms which function-specific questions will be used, and answers any questions.

2

Interview

30 min

On Zoom, with the eight questions shared in advance. Recorded for write-up. Ends with a short anonymous poll that feeds the report’s infographics.

3

Sponsor follow-up

20 to 30 min

A representative from the campaign sponsor, CogniScale, asks three or four follow-on questions to surface concrete examples.

4

One-pager review

15 to 30 min

TechPros walks through the draft one-pager, captures your feedback and confirms the publication date.

5

Publication

Your one-pager is published on the TechPros insights platform. We email you a week before and on the day, with a draft LinkedIn post you can reshare.

Add your voice to the 2026 report

Nine functions. The reality from people running the businesses, not the conference slides.