The findings suggest that India’s AI advantage is not limited to adoption. Workers are using AI to create new capacity, rethink processes and undertake work that was previously difficult or impossible, while placing greater emphasis on human judgement and quality control.

The India findings of the Microsoft Work Trend Index (WTI) 2026 paint a rosy picture about AI adoption in the country. However, it puts the onus on leaders to scale up the…

India has the highest share of Frontier Professionals, with 32% of AI users employing agents in multi-step workflows, twice the global average.