AI is reshaping work faster than many organisations can adapt. New models, tools and applications are changing how companies operate, make decisions and create value. As companies race to capture AI’s potential, a critical question remains: are their workforces equipped with the confidence, capabilities and judgement needed to keep pace? 

Access to AI tools alone will not elevate the workforce. Success increasingly depends on whether employees have the confidence, capabilities, and judgement to use AI responsibly, embed it into everyday work, and adapt as technology continues to evolve. Building AI-fluent workforces is therefore becoming a critical foundation for workforce resilience in the AI age.

As a long-term investor, Temasek journeys with its portfolio companies to strengthen their resilience and competitiveness, by fostering an agile, inclusive and future-ready workforce. 

The diversity of sectors in which Singapore-based Temasek Portfolio Companies (TPCs) operate presents a distinctive opportunity to turn individual company experiences into shared ecosystem intelligence. This includes identifying what is working across sectors, distilling those lessons into practical guidance, and guiding TPCs to adapt insights to their respective business contexts, workforce priorities and AI maturity. This led to the creation of the TPC Workforce AI Fluency Programme. 

The programme asked a different question: what if companies could share experiences, learn what works, and navigate AI’s impact on work together?

Collaborating with human resources and technology leaders from TPCs, Temasek co-created a practical Workforce AI Fluency Playbook grounded in real implementation experience. The Playbook draws on more than 100 case studies from TPCs and other leading organisations, complemented by NTUC case studies from its work with businesses through Company Training Committees to drive job redesign and business transformation in sectors highly disrupted by AI.

The TPC Workforce AI Fluency Programme reflects Temasek’s broader approach to workforce transformation: bringing stakeholders across the ecosystem together to exchange practical experiences, adapt proven approaches and navigate change collectively.

This includes initiatives such as the Temasek Tripartite Conversations, which convene employers, unions and policymakers around shared workforce priorities, as well as two AI immersion programmes under Temasek International Institute: an AI Leadership Programme with Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AI study trip to China. These brought together leaders from Temasek and its portfolio companies, alongside Singapore Government officials, to exchange insights on AI adoption and organisational transformation.

Together, these initiatives reflect a shared belief: realising AI's potential requires more than deploying technology. Ultimately, the organisations best positioned to capture AI's potential in a rapidly changing landscape will be those that invest in the confidence, capabilities, and resilience of their people.