The Workforce AI Index · Industrials
ABM Industries Inc. (ABM)
Facility services, split by segment revenue. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-10-31, filed 2025-12-19. Ranked 28 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 113,000 employees with 45% union-represented and nothing by segment, so the patterns follow segment revenue weighted toward the frontline majority (c).
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: 11% now, 15% at the end of 2027, 16% at the end of 2028, 17% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 17% desk work, 10% people work and 73% 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 83% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 10% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
113,000 employees as of 2025-10-31 (stated). The filing names the United States, the UK and Ireland without a count by country; revenue by geography puts the United States at 92%.
The filing: “As of October 31, 2025, we employed approximately 113,000 employees, of whom approximately 51,000, or 45%, were subject to various local collective bargaining agreements.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Services to Buildings and Dwellings | 75% | By revenue (c): Janitorial at 65% and Facility Services at 15% of segment revenue, weighted toward the frontline employees the filing says are the majority of its workforce, with no count by segment. |
| Other Personal Services | 13% | By revenue (c): the Parking segment at 10% of revenue, parking lots and garages the filing operates, with no count of its own. |
| Building Equipment Contractors | 12% | By revenue (c): Building and Energy Solutions at 10% of revenue, technical and electrical work the filing describes without a count. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 51,000 employees, or 45%, under more than 300 collective bargaining agreements with more than 20 unions; frontline employees the majority of the workforce; operations in the United States, the UK and Ireland serving over 20,000 clients.
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 3 sentences, all about risk: emerging AI technologies intensifying cybersecurity risks, third-party systems that leverage AI, and the board's oversight of its cybersecurity and AI programs.
- “Emerging artificial intelligence technologies may intensify these cybersecurity risks.”
- “Our processes are designed to oversee and identify material risks from cybersecurity threats associated with third-party technologies and systems , including those that leverage artificial intelligence.”
- “Our Board of Directors oversees the Company's risk management and strategy related to its cybersecurity and artificial intelligence ("AI") programs, policies, and practices, including (i) the Company's processes for assessing, identifying, managing, and mitigating material risks from cybersecurity and AI-related threats and emerging developments; (ii) whether any risks from cybersecurity threat...”
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 | 113,000 | 2025-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-10-31 | 117,000 | 2024-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-31 | 123,000 | 2023-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-31 | 127,000 | 2022-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-31 | 124,000 | 2021-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-10-31 | 114,000 | 2020-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2019-10-31 | 140,000 | 2019-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-10-31 | 140,000 | 2018-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-10-31 | 140,000 | 2017-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-31 | 110,000 | 2016-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-10-31 | 120,000 | 2015-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2014-10-31 | 118,000 | 2014-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2013-10-31 | 110,000 | 2013-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2012-10-31 | 95,000 | 2012-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-31 | 96,000 | 2011-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-10-31 | 96,000 | 2010-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2009-10-31 | 91,000 | 2009-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2008-10-31 | 100,000 | 2008-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2007-10-31 | 107,000 | 2007-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2006-10-31 | 75,000 | 2006-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2005-10-31 | 73,000 | 2006-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2004-10-31 | 70,000 | 2005-01-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-10-31 | 64,000 | 2004-01-14 | 10-K |
| 2002-10-31 | 62,000 | 2002-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2001-10-31 | 60,000 | 2001-12-24 | 10-K |
| 2000-10-31 | 60,000 | 2001-01-29 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by segment; the pattern shares rest on segment revenue (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000771497-25-000031, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of ABM Industries Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 11% now and 16% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce ABM Industries 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 ABM Industries Inc. employ?
- 113,000 as of October 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up ABM Industries Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Services to Buildings and Dwellings; by those patterns the work is about 17% desk work, 10% people work and 73% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does ABM Industries Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. 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 1, 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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