Atmos Energy Corporation (ATO)
Gas distribution utility, 62% in field roles. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 14, 2025. Ranked 3 of the 32 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
24%
End of 2028
50%
Employees, annual report
5,487
Leading staffing pattern
Natural Gas Distribution
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now24%
- End of 202742%
- End of 202850%
- End of 203053%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 42%
- Becomes checking a model's work 47%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states 5,487 employees, 62 percent in field roles and 38 percent in support and shared services, so the support share goes to management of companies and the field share to gas distribution and pipelines.
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: 24% now, 42% at the end of 2027, 50% at the end of 2028, 53% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 53% desk work, 18% people work and 29% 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 42% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 47% 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
5,487 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). A U.S. gas utility; the filing describes only the cities and towns it serves in the United States and counts no employees abroad (recorded as 1, flagged).
The filing: “At September 30, 2025, we had 5,487 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas Distribution | 50% | The filing states 62 percent of employees in field roles (a); the field share is split between the distribution and pipeline segments by revenue (c), distribution being 80 percent. |
| Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas | 12% | The pipeline and storage segment, 20 percent of revenue, takes its share of the stated field roles by revenue (c); the filing counts no employees by segment. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 38% | The filing states that 38 percent of employees worked in support and shared services roles as of December 31, 2024 (a), a stated support count under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: As of December 31, 2024, 62 percent of employees worked in field roles and 38 percent in support and shared services roles; none have chosen to work under a collective bargaining agreement.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Natural Gas Distribution, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Sempra (SRE, 15,938 employees)22% now, 41% by 2028
- Enbridge Inc. (ENB, 14,800 employees)22% now, 41% by 2028
- NiSource Inc (NI, 7,738 employees)22% now, 42% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
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 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 5,487 | 2025-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 5,260 | 2024-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 5,019 | 2023-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 4,791 | 2022-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 4,684 | 2021-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 4,694 | 2020-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 4,776 | 2019-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 4,628 | 2018-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 4,565 | 2017-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 4,747 | 2016-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 4,753 | 2015-11-06 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 4,761 | 2014-11-06 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 4,720 | 2013-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 4,759 | 2012-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 4,949 | 2011-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 4,913 | 2010-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 4,891 | 2009-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 4,750 | 2008-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 4,653 | 2007-11-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 4,632 | 2006-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 4,543 | 2005-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 2,864 | 2004-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-30 | 2,905 | 2003-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-30 | 2,338 | 2002-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 2,361 | 2001-11-21 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-09-30 | 1,471 | 2000-11-15 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-09-30 | 1,616 | 1999-12-14 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-09-30 | 2,193 | 1998-12-22 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-09-30 | 2,679 | 1997-12-22 | 10-K |
| 1996-09-30 | 1,652 | 1996-11-13 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-09-30 | 1,646 | 1995-12-14 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-09-30 | 1,709 | 1994-12-15 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. service territories; it states no count by country.
- The field roles are split between distribution and pipeline work by segment revenue, not by a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000731802-25-000056, 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 Atmos Energy Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 24% now and 50% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Atmos Energy Corporation'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 Atmos Energy Corporation employ?
- 5,487 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Atmos Energy Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Natural Gas Distribution; by those patterns the work is about 53% desk work, 18% people work and 29% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Atmos Energy Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 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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