“What I would tell you is, look, we expect it to grow across all markets. We don't have a specific number that we're giving you, but based upon the demand that we see, we expect our headcount to grow.”

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“with new policy changes. That's true in health care, and it's really true across the board. Angie Park: Thank you. Operator, we have time for one more question, and then Julie will wrap up the call. Operator: Absolutely. Our final question comes from Jim Schneider at Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead. Jim Schneider: Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Julie, I just wonder if you could follow on your comment that you expect headcount to grow during the course of the fiscal year across all regions. Can you maybe kind of frame for us the magnitude of that and the timing for it, given the context of some of the other business optimization actions you're seeing? Where would you expect headcount growth to land exiting the year, perhaps? Angie Park: I'll take that. Hey, Jim. Good morning. What I would tell you is, look, we expect it to grow across all markets. We don't have a specific number that we're giving you, but based upon the demand that we see, we expect our headcount to grow. Jim Schneider: Great. As a follow-up on that, if you could maybe talk about the net impact of AI you're using internally to optimize your own work, your own business, utilization. I think you mentioned earlier, 93%. That's basically hitting a new record. When would we expect to see that either reflected in even higher utilization or potentially gross margins, even though we know you don't manage directly to that? Julie Sweet: Yeah. Remember, right now, our utilization is really a reflection of the kind of momentum in demand that we're seeing. You saw the bookings, right? Our utilization, we would expect to continue to move around in the low 90%, so we don't have a structural change in utilization due to AI. We are already embedding AI, particularly in our big platforms like Gen AI, to dri”