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IMO:

Workflows = automations that use LLMs (or a sequence of LLM calls) at some point. Eg. "Classify this input and respond with JSON"

Is Siri or Google Assistant an "agent"? I would say no it's basically an LLM with function calling. Eg. "What's the weather -> uses predefined weather api"

Agents would need to be able to self integrate, which is impossible without giving them full computer use or admin permissions - which creates massive security risks nobody seems to be talking about.

By that definition, humans doing tasks are workflow automation.

Humans are autonomous and not task specific

Most people in large work environments are very task specific and deviation from playbook is punished.

That’s great. They’re still capable of doing other things

Sure, they're capable. They can be assigned to a new task after getting instructions and tools for that task ; )

What else do you want them to be?

I’d like it if we could trust agents to have agency but in practice they dont