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The New AI Workforce: Pressure, Productivity, and the Perception Gap

The people closest to AI trust it least — and your CEO probably isn’t the one setting AI strategy.

Futurum surveyed 775 technology leaders and practitioners on how AI is actually landing inside the enterprise. The findings cut against the prevailing narrative: nearly a third of leaders report pressure to overstate AI success, the most AI-fluent employees are the most worried about displacement, and strategy ownership has shifted decisively to the technical C-suite.

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Synopsys Q3 FY 2026: AI Design Demand Drives EDA Growth

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HP Q3 FY 2026: Can Premium PCs Offset Memory Cost Pressure?

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NVIDIA Q2 FY 2027: AI Infrastructure Demand Extends Into FY 2028

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The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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