AI agents are changing work - and Dell's John Roese says it's just beginning
To gain a better understanding of the longer-term impact that autonomous agents will have on the nature of work, Dell Technologies Inc. has been taking a closer look at how AI is already changing how work gets done. This has been a central focus for John Roese (pictured), Dell's global chief technology officer and chief [...
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- Dell Technologies is examining how autonomous agents are reshaping work, as enterprise AI deployment reveals shifts in job design and CapEx strategies.
UPDATED 11:31 EDT / JUNE 24 2026 AI AI agents are changing work - and Dell's John Roese says it's just beginning by Mark Albertson To gain a better understanding of the longer-term impact that autonomous agents will have on the nature of work, Dell Technologies Inc.
- "What is this going to do to work inside of companies and at the world level?
" Roese spoke with theCUBE's Dave Vellante for theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories - Data Centers of the Future interview series, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming studio.
- "And if your goal as you move into agentic is to rebalance work between those two things, if you're not even using the same language and you don't even define it the same way, you have no hope.
But if you do, it becomes really clear what parts of the jobs are going to move to agents, which ones aren't, and that for the first time gives you clarity about what the future of jobs looks like.
- "The consequence of that is that as you deploy agentic, there is a massive organizational design exercise that you have to think through because if you don't do an organizational redesign, you will have a whole bunch of jobs that used to have 100% work inside of them that now have 30%.
It just made it very clear to us that there's a profound change coming.
- CFOs now care about hybrid AI because they know that it's a way for them to control the economic expansion that could happen if they don't have an ability to selectively place where they consume their tokens.
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- #"The consequence of that is that as you deploy agentic, there is a massive organizational design exercise that you have to think through because if you don't do an organizational redesign, you will have a whole bunch of jobs that used to have 100% work inside of them that now have 30%.
Dell Technologies is examining how autonomous agents are reshaping work, as enterprise AI deployment reveals shifts in job design and CapEx strategies. UPDATED 11:31 EDT / JUNE 24 2026 AI AI agents are changing work - and Dell's John Roese says it's just beginning by Mark Albertson To gain a better understanding of the longer-term impact that autonomous agents will have on the nature of work, Dell Technologies Inc. has been taking a closer look at how AI is already changing how work gets done.
This has been a central focus for John Roese (pictured), Dell's global chief technology officer and chief AI officer. The company has been running fully autonomous agents for close to two years , and this has led to valuable insights, according to Roese. "For the last six months, the two topics I've spent most of my time on have been tokenomics and the impact of agents, primarily AI agents, on the composition of work inside of companies," he explained.
"What is this going to do to work inside of companies and at the world level? " Roese spoke with theCUBE's Dave Vellante for theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories - Data Centers of the Future interview series, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming studio. They discussed how AI is leading to major changes in job definitions and capital expenditures for organizations.
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