Agilent Technologies, Inc. (A)
Lab instruments, consumables and services. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025, filed December 22, 2025. Ranked 26 of the 52 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
49%
Employees, annual report
18,100
Leading staffing pattern
Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202740%
- End of 202849%
- End of 203053%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 47%
- Becomes checking a model's work 42%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
18,100 employees counted by segment: 8,800 in the instrument and diagnostics segments, 7,400 in CrossLab services and consumables split between repair services and instruments, and 1,900 in global infrastructure at management of companies.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 40% at the end of 2027, 49% at the end of 2028, 53% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 53% desk work, 18% people work and 29% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 47% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 42% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
18,100 employees as of October 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts 7,100 employees in the Americas, 4,400 in Europe and 6,600 in Asia Pacific, and no U.S. count.
The filing: “As of October 31, 2025, we employed approximately 18,100 people worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing | 65% | The Life Sciences and Diagnostics Markets segment employs about 6,300 and the Applied Markets segment about 2,500 (a), the instrument, reagent and diagnostics businesses, with the consumables part of CrossLab's 7,400 read into the same pattern by description (c); analytical instruments sit in this group. |
| Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance | 25% | The Agilent CrossLab segment employs about 7,400 (a), services, consumables and software; the field service, support and repair work, the larger part of the segment by description (c), read at precision equipment repair. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 10% | The global infrastructure organization employs about 1,900 (a), the corporate functions, recorded under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: By segment: 6,300 in Life Sciences and Diagnostics Markets, 7,400 in Agilent CrossLab, 2,500 in Applied Markets, 1,900 in global infrastructure; by region 7,100 Americas, 4,400 Europe, 6,600 Asia Pacific; temporary workers used for flexibility; no hourly, part-time or union figures stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Medtronic plc (MDT, 95,000 employees)19% now, 43% by 2028
- Emerson Electric Co. (EMR, 71,000 employees)20% now, 48% by 2028
- Danaher Corporation (DHR, 60,000 employees)19% now, 45% by 2028
- GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC, 54,000 employees)19% now, 50% by 2028
- L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX, 45,000 employees)18% now, 48% by 2028
- Rockwell Automation, Inc. (ROK, 26,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
- Garmin Ltd. (GRMN, 23,000 employees)19% now, 49% by 2028
- AMETEK, Inc. (AME, 22,500 employees)18% now, 42% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
17 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in seventeen sentences: integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into its business operations, products and services, software and service offerings for a digitally connected lab that draws on data analytics, AI and robotics, and the risks it lists from developing and deploying AI.
- “Advancements in our offering of software and service solutions will help our customers more efficiently operate a digitally connected smart lab that can derive value out of data analytics, artificial intelligence and robotics.”
- “Issues in the development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence technologies in our business operations, services and products may result in reputational harm, regulatory action, or legal liability, and any failure to adapt to such technological developments or industry trends could adversely affect the competitiveness of our business .”
- “We are integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies ("AI") into our business operations, products and services, while continuing to explore the opportunities that AI could bring to the company.”
- “The use of AI, particularly generative AI, presents opportunities as well as risks that could negatively impact the business.”
- “The development, deployment, and use of AI, including within the life sciences industry, is still in its early stages, where the use of insufficiently developed AI technologies and premature deployment practices could result in unintended outcomes that harm the business.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20212median 0
- Fiscal 20225median 0
- Fiscal 20234median 1
- Fiscal 202418median 4
- Fiscal 202517median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 18,100 | 2025-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2024-10-31 | 17,900 | 2024-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-31 | 18,100 | 2023-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-31 | 18,100 | 2022-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-31 | 17,000 | 2021-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-10-31 | 16,400 | 2020-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-10-31 | 16,300 | 2019-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2018-10-31 | 14,800 | 2018-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-10-31 | 13,500 | 2017-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-31 | 12,500 | 2016-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2015-10-31 | 11,800 | 2015-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2014-10-31 | 21,400 | 2014-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2013-10-31 | 20,600 | 2013-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2012-10-31 | 20,500 | 2012-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-31 | 18,700 | 2011-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2010-10-31 | 18,500 | 2010-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2009-10-31 | 16,800 | 2009-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2008-10-31 | 19,600 | 2008-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2007-10-31 | 19,400 | 2007-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2006-10-31 | 18,700 | 2006-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2005-10-31 | 21,000 | 2006-01-17 | 10-K |
| 2004-10-31 | 28,000 | 2004-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2003-10-31 | 29,000 | 2003-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2002-10-31 | 36,000 | 2002-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2001-10-31 | 41,000 | 2002-01-22 | 10-K |
| 2000-10-31 | 47,000 | 2001-01-17 | 10-K |
| 1999-10-31 | 42,000 | 2000-01-25 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The CrossLab segment's count is split between services and consumables by description; the diagnostics reagents inside the Life Sciences and Diagnostics segment stay in the instruments pattern because the filing counts the segment as one.
- The U.S. share is not stated; most employees are outside the Americas, so the patterns are applied abroad (rule 7).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001090872-25-000087, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Agilent Technologies, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 49% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Agilent Technologies, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Agilent Technologies, Inc. employ?
- 18,100 as of October 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Agilent Technologies, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 53% desk work, 18% people work and 29% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Agilent Technologies, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 17 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 2, 5, 4, 18 and 17 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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