Tushar Makhija
Co-Founder & CEO, TeamOhana
Tushar Makhija is the Co-Founder and CEO of TeamOhana, the AI-powered workforce planning platform trusted by companies like Vercel, Postman, Scale.ai and SeatGeek. With a background in SaaS, finance, and go-to-market strategy, Tushar helps CFOs and CHROs turn headcount planning into a lever for capital efficiency and business agility. He writes about the future of work, AI-native systems of action, and the evolving role of finance in strategic decision-making. Outside of work, he’s a dad, an Enneagram 8, and always chasing clarity—whether on a trail, in a deck, or through a hard conversation.
Your Next Hire Isn't Human: Managing the Second Workforce
Every company is becoming an employer of both humans and AI agents, but only one workforce gets planned, budgeted, and reviewed. The other shows up on the bill after the work is done, with no owner and no seat on the headcount plan. Agents are labor, budgeted against the alternative of a hire, and managing them is HR and Talent's next mandate. The leaders who claim the second workforce now will run the function everyone else reports to.