Three ways agents may reshape the org chart

Focus: Agents for Everyone
Date: October 28, 2026
Topics: Agent roles, Decision rights, Workflow boundaries
Evidence: Publisher Authored
Availability: Available

Three organizational scenarios place agents beneath a human role, beside a human team, or between executives and worker roles; the comparison is explicitly not a forecast.

Summary: OpenAI’s Intelligence Age essay outlines three possible placements for agents inside firms: beneath employees as supervised deputies, beside teams as colleagues, and between executives and workers as coordinators. The authors stress these are illustrative scenarios, not forecasts, and flag unresolved questions about adoption, worker agency, monitoring, firm size and pay.

Why it matters: Managers can test the framework without granting autonomy: map one bounded workflow to a beneath, beside or between role, record human decision rights, and compare coordination burden, exceptions and worker impact before expanding the experiment.

Source: The future of the firm

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