Arista Networks, Inc. (ANET)
Network switch maker, 5,115 full-time employees. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 116 of the 174 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
52%
Employees, annual report
5,115
Leading staffing pattern
Communications Equipment Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202742%
- End of 202852%
- End of 203057%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 43%
- Becomes checking a model's work 45%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states 5,115 full-time employees of one networking equipment business with nothing by function, so one communications equipment pattern carries the workforce.
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, 42% at the end of 2027, 52% at the end of 2028, 57% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 57% desk work, 19% people work and 24% 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 43% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 45% 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
5,115 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the Americas are 79% of revenue.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, Arista employed approximately 5,115 full-time employees worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Communications Equipment Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): a maker of network switches and routing platforms, communications equipment as the HPE anchor reads networking gear, with software sold with the hardware inside; no count by function. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 5,115 full-time employees, up from 4,412 a year earlier; remote and hybrid models for designated roles; AI skills training made an enterprise-wide priority in 2025.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Communications Equipment 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.
- Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO, 82,400 employees)23% now, 59% by 2028
- Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI, 23,000 employees)23% now, 59% by 2028
- Ciena Corporation (CIEN, 9,080 employees)22% now, 54% by 2028
- F5, Inc. (FFIV, 6,578 employees)23% now, 59% by 2028
- Vistance Networks, Inc. (VISN, 4,500 employees)21% now, 52% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
89 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes a Centers of Data strategy with AI Centers among its four domains, customers it calls Cloud and AI Titans, and AI skills development as an enterprise-wide priority for its employees.
- “These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the following: our ability to maintain an adequate rate of revenue growth and our future financial performance, including our expectations regarding our revenue, cost of revenue, gross profit or gross margin and operating expenses; our belief that the networking market is rapidly evolving and has a significa...”
- “Our "Centers of Data" strategy is a fundamental pivot from legacy networking approaches that create incongruent silos to a unified, data-driven approach in which the network is a service that interconnects four primary domains: AI Centers, Data Centers, Campus Centers, and WAN Centers.”
- “This strategy and differentiation have also allowed us to deliver our comprehensive suite of products, services, and technologies to a global customer base segmented into three primary categories: Cloud and AI Titans, AI and Specialty Providers, and Enterprise.”
- “This is especially true in the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic AI, and physical AI, where data has evolved from a byproduct of operations into the primary engine of intelligence and autonomy.”
- “It serves as the critical conduit through which data flows from cloud and edge environments to the AI models that drive decision-making.”
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 20219median 0
- Fiscal 202214median 0
- Fiscal 202359median 1
- Fiscal 202495median 4
- Fiscal 202589median 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 | 5,115 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 4,412 | 2025-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,023 | 2024-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 3,612 | 2023-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,993 | 2022-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,613 | 2021-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2,300 | 2020-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,300 | 2019-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 1,800 | 2018-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 1,500 | 2017-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 1,200 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 1,000 | 2015-03-12 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts full-time employees and states no contractor count; its manufacturing partners' workers are not counted (rule 8).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001596532-26-000013, 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 Arista Networks, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 52% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Arista Networks, 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 Arista Networks, Inc. employ?
- 5,115 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Arista Networks, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Communications Equipment Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 57% desk work, 19% people work and 24% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Arista Networks, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 89 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 9, 14, 59, 95 and 89 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 20, 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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