The Workforce AI Index · Communication Services
Advantage Solutions Inc. (ADV)
Retail marketing services, mostly part-time. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-03-03. Ranked 5 of the 10 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 73,000 teammates, 57,000 part-time and 57,000 in the United States, in retail marketing services, so one pattern carries the workforce (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: 25% now, 51% at the end of 2027, 62% at the end of 2028, 65% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 65% desk work, 23% people work and 12% 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 34% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 49% becomes checking a model's work and 14% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
73,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing counts approximately 57,000 of 73,000 teammates in the United States.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 73,000 teammates. Approximately 16,000 are full-time and approximately 57,000 are part-time. Approximately 57,000 of our teammates are in the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services | 100% | By description (c): in-store demonstrations, merchandising and retail marketing services for brands and retailers, the demonstration and display services that industry covers, with no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 73,000 teammates, 16,000 full-time and 57,000 part-time; 57,000 in the United States; many paid near applicable minimum wages; meaningful turnover among entry-level part-time teammates; no union representation in the United States.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC, 120,000 employees)25% now, 62% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
28 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 28 sentences, chiefly as risk: AI used by threat actors, regulatory scrutiny of AI and automated decision-making, and AI among the developments in its industry.
- “Summary of Principal Risks Associated with Our Business Set forth below is a summary of some of the principal risks we face: market-driven wage changes or changes to labor laws or wage or job classification regulations, including minimum wage; our ability to hire, timely train and retain talented individuals for our workforce, and to maintain our corporate culture as we grow; developments with...”
- “Cyberattacks are expected to accelerate on a global basis in frequency and magnitude as threat actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated in using techniques and tools - including AI - that circumvent security controls, evade detection and remove forensic 12 evidence.”
- “Specifically, data processing associated with emerging technologies, and data sets utilizing sensitive personal information, are coming under increased regulatory scrutiny, such as those related to biometrics, AI, and automated decision-making.”
- “We also suspect that compliance with AI-related legal obligations will be our greatest challenge, as we continue to stretch our business and operating models to utilize AI to increase efficiency and reduce workload strain.”
- “Further, recent years have seen a dramatic proliferation of plaintiff's attorney-driven class action litigation, individual litigation, arbitrations, and demand letters related to Internet-based technologies such as website cookies and pixels, tracking technologies, chatbots, and AI tools, and there is little sign that this trend will abate in the near-term.”
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 | 73,000 | 2026-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 69,000 | 2025-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 70,000 | 2024-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 75,000 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 70,000 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 62,000 | 2021-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2 | 2020-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts people by status and country, not by segment; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-088543, 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 Advantage Solutions Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 25% now and 62% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Advantage Solutions 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 Advantage Solutions Inc. employ?
- 73,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 78% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Advantage Solutions Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; by those patterns the work is about 65% desk work, 23% people work and 12% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Advantage Solutions Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 28 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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