Acuity Brands, Inc. (AYI)
Lighting fixture plants, mostly in Mexico. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025, filed October 27, 2025. Ranked 32 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
40%
Employees, annual report
13,800
Leading staffing pattern
Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202734%
- End of 202840%
- End of 203042%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 58%
- Becomes checking a model's work 32%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states 13,800 employees, 8,200 in Mexico and 4,300 in the United States, making lighting and building controls, with no count by segment, so lighting equipment leads.
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, 34% at the end of 2027, 40% at the end of 2028, 42% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 42% desk work, 19% people work and 39% 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 58% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 32% 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
13,800 employees as of August 31, 2025 (stated). Approximately 4,300 of 13,800 employees in the United States (31%) and 8,200 in Mexico, stated.
The filing: “We employed approximately 13,800 employees at August 31, 2025, of which approximately 4,300 were employed in the United States and approximately 8,200 were employed in Mexico.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing | 85% | The lighting business makes luminaires and lighting controls in plants, most of them in Mexico where 8,200 employees work under annually negotiated union contracts, which NAICS counts as electric lighting equipment, read by description (c) as the largest part since the filing counts no employees by segment. |
| Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing | 15% | The intelligent spaces business makes building automation controls and the software that runs them, which NAICS counts with automatic environmental controls (334512), read by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 4,300 U.S., 8,200 Mexico, 9,300 international in all; union recognition and collective bargaining cover about 1,300 U.S. and 6,700 Mexico employees (58%), the Mexican arrangements renegotiated annually by statute.
What the filing says about AI
11 sentences in the filing name AI. Eleven sentences: the company says it has begun incorporating AI capabilities in its products and operations, names the active market for AI and software solutions among its competitors, and lists AI-enabled impersonation fraud among cyber threats.
- “Additionally, the market for artificial intelligence and software solutions is active with a wide range of competitors, from existing large companies to startup organizations.”
- “As artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies advance, new and increasingly sophisticated attack methods are emerging, including fraud involving impersonation technologies or other forms of generative automation that enhance the scale and effectiveness of cyber threats.”
- “We have begun to incorporate artificial intelligence ("AI") capabilities in our product offerings and operations, and challenges with properly managing the use of AI and machine learning could result in reputational harm, competitive harm, and legal liability and adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition, and/or cash flows.”
- “We have begun incorporating AI capabilities into certain product offerings as well as utilizing AI as part of our operational processes.”
- “Our competitors or other third parties may incorporate AI into their products more quickly or more successfully than us, which could impair our ability to compete effectively and adversely affect our results of operations.”
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 20215median 0
- Fiscal 20223median 0
- Fiscal 20239median 1
- Fiscal 20249median 4
- Fiscal 202511median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 13,800 | 2025-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-08-31 | 13,200 | 2024-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-08-31 | 12,200 | 2023-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2022-08-31 | 13,200 | 2022-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2021-08-31 | 13,000 | 2021-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2020-08-31 | 11,500 | 2020-10-23 | 10-K |
| 2019-08-31 | 12,000 | 2019-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2018-08-31 | 13,000 | 2018-10-25 | 10-K |
| 2017-08-31 | 12,500 | 2017-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-08-31 | 11,800 | 2016-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-08-31 | 7,800 | 2015-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2014-08-31 | 7,000 | 2014-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2013-08-31 | 6,500 | 2013-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2012-08-31 | 6,000 | 2012-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-08-31 | 6,000 | 2011-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-08-31 | 6,000 | 2010-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2009-08-31 | 6,000 | 2009-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2008-08-31 | 6,500 | 2008-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-08-31 | 10,000 | 2007-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2006-08-31 | 10,600 | 2006-11-02 | 10-K |
| 2005-08-31 | 10,000 | 2005-11-01 | 10-K |
| 2004-08-31 | 11,000 | 2004-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2003-08-31 | 11,400 | 2003-10-31 | 10-K |
| 2002-08-31 | 11,800 | 2002-11-12 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the split between lighting and building controls is by description (c).
- The data service's segment and geography tables (intersegment eliminations 100%, Non-US 100%) fail the checks and were not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001144215-25-000082, 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 Acuity Brands, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 40% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Acuity Brands, 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 Acuity Brands, Inc. employ?
- 13,800 as of August 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025 states. About 31% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Acuity Brands, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 42% desk work, 19% people work and 39% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Acuity Brands, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 11 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 5, 3, 9, 9 and 11 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 19, 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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