Are You a Modern Professional?

Here are six suggested best practices-in alphabetical order- to hire and retain the modern tech professional.

- By Raju Chellam

Max was a rising star in the corporate world. He had all the gear—dual monitors, noise-canceling headphones, a smartwatch that tracked everything from his heart rate to his caffeine intake, and a standing desk that adjusted via app—a posterchild of the modern professional.

The CEO had given him one task: Present the quarterly corporate results to the leadership team. This Monday morning Max strutted into the office and proudly showed off his new smartwatch. “It’s got AI that tells me when I'm stressed,” he announced. “It even buzzes when I need to breathe.”

Max adjusted his tie and announced he had synced the Q2 report “to the cloud.” The CEO nodded. Minutes into his presentation, the screen went blank. “No worries,” Max said, tapping his watch. “I uploaded it last night... to my fridge.” Turns out, he emailed the report to his fridge’s internal storage. The team spent an hour trying to retrieve the data from a kitchen appliance while his smartwatch kept buzzing: “Elevated stress detected.”

If that anecdote made you wonder, these statistics should make you ponder: Worldwide end-user spending on GenAI models is set to reach US$14.2 billion this year, while end-user spending on specialized GenAI models, which include DSLMs (domain-specific language models), will cross US$1.1 billion, says Gartner Inc.

Specialized GenAI models are trained or finetuned on industry or business process specific data. By 2027, more than 50% of GenAI models used by enterprises will be domain-specific, or specific to an industry or business function, up from 1% in 2024.

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