The Workforce AI Index · Healthcare
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX)
Medical technology maker, one pattern. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-09-30, filed 2025-11-25. Ranked 18 of the 27 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 72,000 associates in 61 countries and nothing by segment, so one medical equipment 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: 18% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 47% 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 56% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 35% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
72,000 employees as of 2025-09-30 (stated). The filing states 61 countries and gives no count by country; revenue by geography puts the United States at 59%.
The filing: “We strive to continually invest in our associates with the goal of being an employer of choice for our approximately 72,000 associates located in 61 countries (as of September 30, 2025).”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): medical devices, instruments and supplies across its Medical, Interventional and Life Sciences segments, the industry its SIC code names, with no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 72,000 associates in 61 countries, down from 74,000; performance ratings and calibration reintroduced in 2025; nine associate resource groups.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Medical Equipment and Supplies 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.
- Abbott Laboratories (ABT, 115,000 employees)17% now, 35% by 2028
- Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX, 59,000 employees)18% now, 42% by 2028
- Stryker Corporation (SYK, 56,000 employees)18% now, 39% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
23 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 23 sentences, chiefly as regulation, competition and reliance on networks and services that include AI.
- “Regulation General BD's operations are global and are affected by complex state, federal and international laws relating to healthcare, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, antitrust, anti-corruption, marketing, fraud and abuse (including anti-kickback and false claims laws), export control, transportation, product safety and efficacy, employment, labor, privacy and data pr...”
- “We face competition across all our product lines and in each market in which our products are sold on the basis of product features, clinical or economic outcomes, product quality, availability, price, services and other factors. 15 Table of Contents Our ability to compete is also impacted by changing customer and patient preferences and requirements, including changes in demand as a result of...”
- “In addition, we rely on networks and services, including internet sites, cloud and software-as-a-service ("SaaS") solutions, platform-as-a-service ("PaaS") solutions, data hosting and processing facilities, AI, tools and other hardware, software (including open-source software) and technical applications and platforms, including some that are managed, hosted, provided and/or used by third-party...”
- “Further, we expect that the breadth and complexity of our IT systems and infrastructure will increase as we expand our product offerings to utilize cloud technologies and AI, which present inherent enterprise technology risks, including those related to privacy, data protection and cybersecurity, that need to be managed.”
- “In particular, risks associated with the deployment and use of AI into our operations generally could introduce new risks related to the management of our information and technology systems and related infrastructure and our overall cybersecurity threat landscape.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 72,000 | 2025-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 74,000 | 2024-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 73,000 | 2023-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 77,000 | 2022-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 75,000 | 2021-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 72,000 | 2020-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 70,093 | 2019-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 76,032 | 2018-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 41,933 | 2017-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 50,928 | 2016-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 49,517 | 2015-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 30,619 | 2014-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 29,979 | 2013-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 29,555 | 2012-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 29,369 | 2011-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 28,803 | 2010-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 29,116 | 2009-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 28,277 | 2008-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 28,018 | 2007-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 26,990 | 2006-11-30 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 25,571 | 2005-12-09 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 25,005 | 2004-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-30 | 24,783 | 2003-12-23 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-30 | 25,249 | 2002-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 24,800 | 2001-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2000-09-30 | 25,000 | 2000-12-21 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-09-30 | 24,000 | 1999-12-10 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-30 | 21,700 | 1998-12-16 | 10-K |
| 1997-09-30 | 18,900 | 1997-12-16 | 10-K |
| 1996-09-30 | 17,900 | 1996-12-18 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-09-30 | 18,100 | 1995-12-27 | 10-K |
| 1994-09-30 | 18,600 | 1994-12-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by segment or by country; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000010795-25-000099, 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 Becton, Dickinson and Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Becton, Dickinson and 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 Becton, Dickinson and Company employ?
- 72,000 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Becton, Dickinson and Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 47% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Becton, Dickinson and Company's annual report say about AI?
- 23 sentences 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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