Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY)
Labels and packaging materials, most people in Asia. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 29 of the 60 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
26%
Employees, annual report
35,000
Leading staffing pattern
Converted Paper Product Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202724%
- End of 202826%
- End of 203027%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 72%
- Becomes checking a model's work 20%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states approximately 35,000 employees, 58% in Asia Pacific and 71% in operations, with no count by segment, so the two segments' shares follow sales (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: 17% now, 24% at the end of 2027, 26% at the end of 2028, 27% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 27% desk work, 10% people work and 63% 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 72% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 20% 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
35,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts the workforce by region: North America 22%, the United States not stated.
The filing: “Nearly 20,000 of our approximately 35,000 employees at year-end 2025, representing approximately 58% of our global workforce, were in Asia Pacific, serving our customers in that region.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Converted Paper Product Manufacturing | 76% | Label and Graphic Materials, pressure-sensitive label and packaging materials made from paper, films and adhesives (NAICS 3222, the SIC 2670 business), 76% of sales; the filing counts no employees by segment, so by revenue (c). |
| Printing and Related Support Activities | 24% | Retail Branding and Information Solutions, apparel labels, tags and RFID inlays printed and converted for retailers and brands, 24% of sales; by revenue (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Workforce by region: Asia Pacific 58%, North America 22%, Europe 17%, Latin America 3%; by function: operations 71%, non-operations 29%, after about 2,500 were reclassified to operations in 2025; over 98% paid above the applicable minimum wage.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Converted Paper Product 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.
- Smurfit Westrock plc (SW, 97,000 employees)14% now, 24% by 2028
- International Paper Company (IP, 62,602 employees)14% now, 24% by 2028
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB, 36,000 employees)14% now, 23% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI only in its risk factors: threat actors leveraging AI for cyberattacks, and its own increasing use of AI carrying data security, privacy and algorithmic bias risks.
- “Our information technology and infrastructure are vulnerable to attacks by threat actors or system compromises due to employee error, malfeasance or other disruptions, and the threat landscape remains challenging with our digital business transformation, remote or hybrid employees, the increasing use of artificial intelligence ("AI"), and interconnected supply chains expanding the risk of attack.”
- “Threat actors are increasingly leveraging AI for cyberattacks, and our increasing use of AI carries risks related to data security, privacy events, and potential algorithmic bias.”
- “These AI risks could lead to operational disruptions, regulatory investigations or actions, data security events and potential financial loss.”
- “In addition to maintaining a comprehensive set of endpoint, network, email and cloud security solutions, we continue to take steps to further improve the security of our networks and systems, including maturing our zero trust architecture and strategy; enhancing and testing our security incident response plan; maturing our operational technology security program; implementing more robust cloud...”
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 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20244median 4
- Fiscal 20254median 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 | 35,000 | 2026-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-28 | 35,000 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-30 | 35,000 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 36,000 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-01-01 | 36,000 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-01-02 | 32,000 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-28 | 30,000 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-29 | 30,000 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-30 | 30,000 | 2018-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | not read | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2016-01-02 | not read | 2016-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-01-03 | 25,000 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-28 | 26,000 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-29 | 30,000 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 30,000 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-01-01 | 32,000 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-01-02 | 32,000 | 2010-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-27 | 36,000 | 2009-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-29 | 37,000 | 2008-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-30 | 22,700 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 22,600 | 2006-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2005-01-01 | 21,400 | 2005-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-27 | 20,300 | 2004-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-28 | 20,500 | 2003-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-29 | 17,300 | 2002-03-04 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-30 | 17,900 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-01-01 | 17,400 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1999-01-02 | 16,100 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-27 | 16,200 | 1998-03-26 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-28 | 15,800 | 1997-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-30 | 15,500 | 1996-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 15,400 | 1995-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1994-01-01 | 15,750 | 1994-03-18 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Shares by segment revenue (c): the filing counts employees by region and by operations against non-operations, not by segment.
- No count by country: North America is 22% of the workforce and the United States is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000008818-26-000015, 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 Avery Dennison Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 26% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Avery Dennison 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 Avery Dennison Corporation employ?
- 35,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Avery Dennison Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Converted Paper Product Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 27% desk work, 10% people work and 63% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Avery Dennison Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 4 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 4 and 4 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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