Align Technology, Inc. (ALGN)

Clear aligners made abroad, 9% in the U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 31 of the 47 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A dental device maker whose filing states its total and its U.S. share but nothing by function, so one manufacturing pattern carries it, applied abroad.

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: 19% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 46% 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 57% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 35% 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

20,290 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Employees in the United States represent approximately 9% of the global population; the largest populations are in Mexico, Costa Rica and China.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 20,290 employees, a decrease of approximately 3.1% and 6.1% over December 31, 2024, and December 31, 2023, respectively.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 20,290 employees in 48 countries, down 3.1% from 2024; the largest populations are in Mexico, Costa Rica and China, with about 9% in the United States; about 2,100 self-directed courses in up to 23 languages on its learning hub; no hourly, part-time or union counts are stated.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Medical Equipment and Supplies 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.

• Abbott Laboratories (ABT, 115,000 employees)18% now, 35% by 2028
• Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX, 72,000 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
• Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX, 59,000 employees)19% now, 42% by 2028
• Stryker Corporation (SYK, 56,000 employees)19% now, 39% by 2028
• Baxter International Inc. (BAX, 37,500 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

31 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes AI in its products: Invisalign Virtual Care AI, Align X-ray Insights, a computer-aided detection tool that uses AI to analyze radiographs, launched in Europe and the U.K. in March 2025, and AI-based features in its iTero scanners.

• “Some of the tools that support this stage include Invisalign ® Progress Assessment, Invisalign ® Virtual Care AI and My Invisalign TM app.”
• “In March 2025, we also announced the launch in European Union countries and the United Kingdom of Align X-ray Insights, a new software-based (CADe*) computer aided detection solution that uses artificial intelligence ("AI") to automatically analyze 2D radiographs.”
• “The iTero Element Plus Series of intraoral scanners and imaging systems offers restorative and orthodontic digital workflows that include enhanced visualization for optimized patient experience, including a fully integrated 3D intraoral camera in certain 10 models, seamless scanning with reduced processing time, artificial intelligence ("AI")-based features, and, in certain models, NIRI technol...”
• “These include complex software algorithms and solutions, including AI and machine-learning based CAD/CAM software, vision systems, CT scanning, stereolithography and automated custom clear aligner fabrication equipment.”
• “Our significant historical and ongoing investments in research and development and design around the movement of teeth, SmartTrack aligner materials and design, intraoral scanning, 3D manufacturing, global scale of manufacturing and treatment planning, strong brand name recognition, strong workforce, diversified and knowledgeable customer base, geographic expansion, reliable financial results,...”

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 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20225median 0
• Fiscal 202316median 1
• Fiscal 202421median 4
• Fiscal 202531median 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.

Limits of this reading

• One pattern by description (c); the filing counts no employees by function.
• About 91% of employees are outside the United States; the pattern applies abroad because the work is the same (rule 7).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001097149-26-000014, 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.