Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)
Grain and oilseed processing, 41,496 employees, half hourly. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 13 of the 21 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
41,496
Leading staffing pattern
Grain and Oilseed Milling
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202725%
- End of 202828%
- End of 203029%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 69%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing counts its people by contract and region (a) but not by segment, so the milling, grain handling and nutrition shares are by description (c), said so.
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: 17% now, 25% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 29% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 29% desk work, 12% people work and 59% 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 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% 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
41,496 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 18,851 of 41,496 in North America; no U.S. count.
The filing: “Number of Employees by Contract and Region as of December 31, 2025: Salaried 20,119, Hourly 20,679, Part-Time 698, Total 41,496 (North America 18,851, Latin America 9,528, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa 10,202, Asia-Pacific 2,915).”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Grain and Oilseed Milling | 65% | Oilseed crushing, corn wet milling and flour milling (Ag Services and Oilseeds 77% of revenue, Carbohydrate Solutions 13%); the filing counts people by contract and region, not by segment, so the share is by description (c). |
| Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | 25% | Grain origination, elevators and transportation within Ag Services are farm product wholesaling; no count stated, so the share is by description (c). |
| Other Food Manufacturing | 10% | Nutrition, 9% of revenue, makes flavors and ingredients; by revenue (c), with no count stated. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 41,496 employees: 20,119 salaried, 20,679 hourly and 698 part-time; North America 18,851, Latin America 9,528, EMEA 10,202, Asia-Pacific 2,915; the lowest total recordable incident rate in recent company history in 2025.
What the filing says about AI
16 sentences in the filing name AI. Sixteen sentences: a focus on leveraging digital technologies including AI and advanced analytics across operations, AI among the laws and regulations it is subject to, and technical, legal and opportunistic risks of its use.
- “The Company is subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the United States and other jurisdictions regarding artificial intelligence (AI), privacy, data protection, and data security, including those related to the 20 Table of Contents ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY PART I collection, storage, handling, use, disclosure, transfer, and security of personal data.”
- “The Company is subject to various technical, legal, and opportunistic-related risks relating to use of artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies.”
- “The Company continues to focus on leveraging digital technologies, including artificial intelligence ("AI") and advanced analytics across its operations.”
- “The Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits of AI initiatives depends on a number of factors, many of which are outside of its control.”
- “AI systems rely heavily on vast amounts of data, so they require significant investments in data infrastructure, high‑quality data inputs, skilled personnel, cybersecurity safeguards, and ongoing monitoring.”
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 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20233median 1
- Fiscal 202414median 4
- Fiscal 202516median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 41,496 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 44,000 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 41,802 | 2024-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 42,000 | 2023-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 41,000 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 39,000 | 2021-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 38,100 | 2020-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 31,600 | 2019-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 31,300 | 2018-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 31,800 | 2017-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 32,300 | 2016-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 33,900 | 2015-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 31,100 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-06-30 | 30,000 | 2012-08-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-06-30 | 30,700 | 2011-08-25 | 10-K |
| 2010-06-30 | 29,300 | 2010-08-30 | 10-K |
| 2009-06-30 | 28,200 | 2009-08-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-06-30 | 27,600 | 2008-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2007-06-30 | 27,300 | 2007-08-27 | 10-K |
| 2006-06-30 | 26,800 | 2006-09-11 | 10-K |
| 2005-06-30 | 25,641 | 2005-09-09 | 10-K |
| 2004-06-30 | 26,317 | 2004-09-08 | 10-K |
| 2003-06-30 | 26,197 | 2003-09-03 | 10-K |
| 2002-06-30 | 24,746 | 2002-09-20 | 10-K |
| 2001-06-30 | 22,834 | 2001-09-28 | 10-K |
| 2000-06-30 | 22,753 | 2000-09-28 | 10-K |
| 1999-06-30 | 23,603 | 1999-09-22 | 10-K |
| 1998-06-30 | 23,132 | 1998-09-24 | 10-K |
| 1997-06-30 | 17,160 | 1997-09-29 | 10-K |
| 1996-06-30 | 14,811 | 1996-09-30 | 10-K |
| 1995-06-30 | 14,833 | 1995-08-17 | 10-K |
| 1994-06-30 | 16,013 | 1994-09-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector found no count in the text; the total is the filing's employee table (41,496 by contract and region).
- No count by segment: the milling, grain handling and nutrition shares are by description (c), with segment revenue as the guide.
- No U.S. count: 18,851 in North America.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000007084-26-000011, 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 Archer-Daniels-Midland Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Archer-Daniels-Midland Company'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 Archer-Daniels-Midland Company employ?
- 41,496 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Archer-Daniels-Midland Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Grain and Oilseed Milling; by those patterns the work is about 29% desk work, 12% people work and 59% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Archer-Daniels-Midland Company's annual report say about AI?
- 16 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 3, 14 and 16 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 2, 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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