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AI continues to reshape how people work, the nature of their jobs, and the skills requiredāprompting organizations to rethink their strategic workforce planning (SWP). As practitioners help their organizations navigate AIās implications, this new article outlines five best practices to prepare for the disruptions and opportunities AI and other technological advances bring to the workplace.Ā One key practice is planning for multiple business scenarios.Ā The article highlights how a North American software company sought to understand AIās impact on its workforceāspecifically, how it could free up resources to build new products.Ā āTo do this, it forecasts supply and demand across tech, product, and operations roles by incorporating expected AI impact, including developing the top AI use cases in those three areas. It also identified projects that could be stopped or frozen to help reallocate resources to critical products.āĀ The company then modeled multiple scenarios to determine the pace and scale of adoption and adjusted workforce plans accordingly. While sophisticated tools and methodologies exist to assess AIās impact on work, here isĀ my simple one-page templateĀ (also featured in this issue in the AI section) to help teams evaluate AIās potential effects on work tasks and the extent of change required.