Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (BFAM)

Employer-sponsored child care centers. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 27 of the 57 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states approximately 32,200 employees, 28,900 at its centers and in homes and 3,300 in corporate, divisional and regional roles, so the two counts give the two patterns their shares (a).

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, 24% at the end of 2027, 26% at the end of 2028, 27% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 27% desk work, 47% people work and 26% 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 73% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 19% 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

32,200 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts 18,450 employees in North America, 9,250 in the United Kingdom, 2,400 in the Netherlands, 2,050 in Australia and 50 in India; the United States alone is not stated.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 32,200 global employees (including part-time and substitute teachers), of whom approximately 3,300 were employed as corporate, divisional and regional employees, and approximately 28,900 were employed at our early education and child care centers and as in-home caregivers.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 32,200 employees including part-time and substitute teachers: 28,900 at centers and in homes, 3,300 corporate, divisional and regional; 18,450 in North America, 9,250 in the United Kingdom, 2,400 in the Netherlands, 2,050 in Australia, 50 in India; no active labor unions.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Child Care Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• KinderCare Learning Companies, Inc. (KLC, 43,700 employees)16% now, 23% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

15 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as a force reshaping the workforce needs its educational advisory services address, as a technology it is adopting in its service delivery (AI-driven enhancements clients may be slow to take up), and among cyber attackers' tools.

• “Further, as employers compete for top talent in an environment shaped by rapid digital and AI-driven change, our educational advisory services can help employers keep pace with shifting workforce demands for upskilling and reskilling and meet their strategic workforce goals.”
• “Additionally, client unwillingness to adopt new technology enhancements that we develop and adopt to support our service delivery, including AI-driven technology, could impact our return on investment.”
• “For example, as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, cyber-attackers are increasingly using AI to develop malicious code and sophisticated phishing attempts.”
• “A variety of laws, regulations, industry self-regulatory principles, industry standards or codes of conduct and regulatory guidance relating to privacy, data protection, AI, marketing and advertising, selling and sharing, and consumer protection apply to the collection, use, retention, protection, disclosure, transfer, and other processing of certain types of data.”
• “As the regulatory environment related to privacy, data collection and protection, AI, information security, marketing and advertising, selling and sharing, and consumer protection becomes increasingly rigorous, with new and changing requirements applicable to our business, compliance with such requirements could impose significant limitations, require changes to our business, or restrict our us...”

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 20246median 4
• Fiscal 202515median 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

• The U.S. share is not stated: the filing counts North America.
• The pattern applies abroad under rule 7: 43% of employees are outside North America doing the same center and in-home care work.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437578-26-000006, 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.