- Published on September 3, 2025
- In IT Services
Future of Indian IT is Bright With New Job Roles: Microsoft’s Puneet Chandok
‘AI adoption is being driven by a young workforce, strong digital infrastructure, and a thriving ecosystem of startups and multinationals’
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By Siddharth Jindal
Puneet Chandok, president of Microsoft India and South Asia, said the rise of AI has changed the way work is experienced, breaking free from the endless repetition symbolised by the Greek myth of Sisyphus.
He said as per the myth, Sisyphus is condemned to push a rock uphill only to see it roll back down. That’s what work felt like for many of us. Endless, repetitive, never truly done. “But with AI and technology… we’re not Sisyphus anymore.”
At the Microsoft Work Trend Index event in Noida, Chandok said that Indian enterprises are preparing to adopt AI agents at scale. According to him, 93% of leaders believe these agents will become part of the workforce in the next 12 to 18 months.
He said that AI agents will soon become digital teammates. “It’s becoming a companio
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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