Boise Cascade Company (BCC)
Building materials distributor and plywood maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 4 of the 43 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
31%
Employees, annual report
7,680
Leading staffing pattern
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202728%
- End of 202831%
- End of 203032%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 67%
- Becomes checking a model's work 23%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
A wood products and distribution company whose filing states 7,680 employees and nothing by segment, so its distribution branches and its plywood and engineered wood plants are read near evenly by description.
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, 28% at the end of 2027, 31% at the end of 2028, 32% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 32% desk work, 17% people work and 51% 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 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 23% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
7,680 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: the filing counts no employees by country; the data service's geography table (Non-US 100%) is not usable.
The filing: “Labor Concentration and Unions As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 7,680 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only) | 50% | By description (c): the Building Materials Distribution segment (79% of revenue) runs wholesale branches for lumber, panels and building products (NAICS 4233), with no count by segment, and distribution revenue passes through at far more dollars per person than a mill's, so the two segments are read near evenly. |
| Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing | 50% | By description (c): the Wood Products segment (21% of revenue) runs plywood, veneer and engineered wood product plants (NAICS 3212), whose mills employ many people per dollar of sales, with no count by segment, so half is read there, said so. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 7,680 employees as of December 31, 2025 (7,560 a year earlier) and 7,660 as of February 15, 2026; the human capital section gives nothing by segment, country or status.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Ferguson plc (FERG, 35,000 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
- Arrow Electronics, Inc. (ARW, 22,230 employees)27% now, 43% by 2028
- WESCO International, Inc. (WCC, 21,000 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
- Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS, 15,700 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
- Avnet, Inc. (AVT, 15,040 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
- QXO, Inc. (QXO, 7,794 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its Wood Products innovation includes automated veneer handling and grading, predictive maintenance and the use of artificial intelligence to classify safety opportunities, and that it uses AI behavioral analytics in its cyber defenses.
- “Innovation efforts within our Wood Products segment are also focused on identifying process and cost efficiency improvement opportunities, some of which include automated veneer handling and grading, finished goods packaging, asset monitoring applications for predictive maintenance, and the use of artificial intelligence to classify and identify opportunities in safety.”
- “New technological developments, including the development of artificial intelligence, are rapidly evolving.”
- “We use extended detection and response ( XDR) technology to integrate network, endpoint, and cloud data to stop sophisticated attacks by detecting malware and exploit threats, including using artificial intelligence (AI) behavioral analytics.”
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 20233median 1
- Fiscal 20243median 4
- Fiscal 20253median 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 | 7,660 | 2026-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 7,560 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 7,300 | 2024-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,780 | 2023-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 6,110 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 6,040 | 2021-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 6,010 | 2020-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 6,210 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 6,370 | 2018-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 6,190 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 5,910 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 5,670 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 5,290 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 4,620 | 2013-03-07 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is not stated.
- No count by segment: the split between distribution and wood products is by description (c), weighted against the revenue split because distribution revenue passes through.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001328581-26-000006, 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 Boise Cascade Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 31% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Boise Cascade Company'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 Boise Cascade Company employ?
- 7,680 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Boise Cascade Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only); by those patterns the work is about 32% desk work, 17% people work and 51% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Boise Cascade Company's annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 3, 3 and 3 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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