Belden Inc. (BDC)

Cable, connector and industrial networking maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 105 of the 135 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A connectivity maker whose filing states 8,000 employees by country and nothing by product, so cables and connectors lead by description with networking equipment beside them.

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: 18% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 39% at the end of 2028, 41% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 42% desk work, 17% people work and 42% 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), 33% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

8,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Stated: 26% in the United States, 3% in Canada, 10% in China, 4% in India, 25% in Mexico and 30% in EMEA.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our global team members totaled approximately 8,000 employees of which 26% are in the United States, 3% in Canada, 10% in China, 4% in India, 25% in Mexico, and 30% in the EMEA region.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 8,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (7,500 a year earlier): 26% in the United States, 3% in Canada, 10% in China, 4% in India, 25% in Mexico, 30% in EMEA; women 39% of the workforce; voluntary turnover of management and professional staff 4%; TRIR 0.48.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Other Electrical Equipment and Component 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.

• Hubbell Incorporated (HUBB, 18,000 employees)17% now, 36% by 2028
• Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (AEIS, 13,000 employees)17% now, 33% by 2028
• nVent Electric plc (NVT, 12,000 employees)17% now, 33% by 2028
• EnerSys (ENS, 9,682 employees)17% now, 33% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

11 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its Automation Solutions segment provides digitization and automation building blocks for IT/OT convergence including physical AI, and that customers adopt AI for analytics and autonomous decisions over Industrial Ethernet networks.

• “Automation Solutions The Automation Solutions segment at Belden provides digitization and automation solutions as building blocks to enable IT/OT convergence, including physical AI, in demanding vertical markets.”
• “This includes deploying Industry 4.0 to increase visibility of their digitized assets and adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to increase analytics and autonomous decision-making in their systems.”
• “There is an ongoing and growing trend toward further adoption of Industrial Ethernet technology, which increases the bandwidth that is available in communication systems for data acquisition, transmission, and correlation to support data analytics and AI-supported operations, in addition to enhancing the ability to connect and integrate devices made by different manufacturers.”
• “Computer hacking, malware, phishing, and spamming attacks against online networking platforms have become more prevalent, more recently enhanced by the use of artificial intelligence ("AI") tools.”
• “Our markets are characterized by the introduction of products with increasing technological capabilities, most notable currently is an expectation that AI capabilities will be deployed.”

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 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20242median 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.

Limits of this reading

• No count by product: the split between cable and connectivity products and networking equipment is by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000913142-26-000009, 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.