Enterprises focused on the headcount-reduction half of agentic-AI transformation are systematically under-budgeting the retraining cost for the residual workforce, and programmes that ship the cuts without simultaneously shipping the upskilling produce a 6-12 month productivity dip that erases the early ROI.

60-day cadence. The primary claim depends on residual-team productivity-curve evidence from the next round of Gartner I&O tracking, LinkedIn Workforce reports, and named-vendor enterprise case data. Secondary interpretation (that WEF's 39% skill-change figure, not the 92M displacement figure, is the planning-relevant number for CIOs and CHROs) is reviewable alongside.