AI workplace redesign reaches only 10%, Lenovo says

Only 10% of surveyed IT leaders report fundamentally redesigning the digital workplace for AI, even though 80% say it is critical to successful AI-led transformation, Lenovo said.

Lenovo said its sixth Work Reborn report, The AI-ready workplace, was based on an August 2026 survey of 1,200 IT leaders at organisations with at least 1,000 employees across 12 countries. The company said 76% of respondents ranked AI-led transformation among their organisation's top IT priorities, while only 27% said AI had been scaled across business functions.

The report measures AI workplace readiness across architecture, operations, trust, workforce and value. Lenovo said organisations with AI embedded across core business functions averaged 4.1 out of 5 on its readiness index, compared with 2.7 among organisations still evaluating AI opportunities.

Lenovo said the relationship between workplace readiness and reported AI progress is correlational and does not establish causation. It said only 12% of organisations measure AI adoption and effectiveness at individual or team level and use the findings to refine training, employee personas and technology decisions.