The Workforce AI Index · Industrials
The Brink's Company (BCO)
Cash logistics and security, one pattern, mostly abroad. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-26. Ranked 17 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing counts 63,600 full-time and 1,800 part-time employees, 89% outside the United States, in one secure logistics business, so one security services pattern carries the workforce (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, 20% at the end of 2027, 21% at the end of 2028, 22% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 22% desk work, 24% people work and 55% 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 79% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 3% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
65,400 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing states approximately 89%, or 58,000, of its employees are outside the United States, with about 7,400 in the United States.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, our company had approximately 63,600 full-time and 1,800 part-time employees. Approximately 89% or 58,000 of our employees are outside the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Investigation and Security Services | 100% | By description (c): cash-in-transit, ATM services and secure logistics run from about 1,200 facilities with 15,900 vehicles, the armored transport that industry covers, with no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 63,600 full-time and 1,800 part-time employees; 58,000 outside the United States and about 7,400 in it; approximately 27,700, or 42%, represented by unions or under collective bargaining agreements expiring 2026 to 2029.
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 1 sentence, among its forward-looking risk factors.
- “These risks, uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond our control, include, but are not limited to: our ability to improve profitability and execute further cost and operational improvements and efficiencies in our core businesses; our ability to improve service levels and quality in our core businesses; market volatility and commodity price fluctuations; general economic issue...”
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 | 63,600 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 66,100 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 66,000 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 69,500 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 72,200 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 73,700 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 64,600 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 62,400 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 62,300 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 60,700 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 59,900 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 64,100 | 2015-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 65,100 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 70,000 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 71,000 | 2012-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 71,000 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 59,400 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 56,900 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 53,900 | 2008-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 52,000 | 2007-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 45,800 | 2006-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 54,000 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 48,600 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 37,500 | 2003-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 50,000 | 2002-03-22 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 49,400 | 2001-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 46,500 | 2000-03-24 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 41,800 | 1999-03-23 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 33,000 | 1998-03-27 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 27,000 | 1997-03-27 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 26,000 | 1996-04-01 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 23,900 | 1995-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-31 | 22,800 | 1994-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Most of the workforce is abroad; the pattern applies abroad because the work is the same in kind (rule 7).
- The filing counts people by status and country, not by segment; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000078890-26-000010, 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 The Brink's Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 21% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce The Brink's 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 The Brink's Company employ?
- 65,400 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 11% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up The Brink's Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Investigation and Security Services; by those patterns the work is about 22% desk work, 24% people work and 55% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does The Brink's Company's annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. 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 1, 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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