NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — JA (Junior Achievement) Asia Pacific, JA Institute, and Ecosystm today launched Workforce Blueprint for AI, a position paper calling for coordinated action to ensure Asia Pacific’s workforce is prepared for an AI-enabled future. The report cautions that, although AI adoption is accelerating across the region, work readiness is not keeping pace, creating a growing gap likely to widen inequality and constrain economic opportunity for youth.

Developed under the guidance of the JA Asia Pacific AI Council, the paper introduces a “three horizons” framework that examines how work is likely to evolve in phases through 2035, from AI-assisted productivity and role redesign to AI-orchestrated operations and, ultimately, interconnected human-AI ecosystems. It argues that work readiness cannot be defined solely by AI literacy or via proficiency with individual tools.