Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (BHE)

Electronics manufacturing services, seven countries. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 114 of the 135 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Benchmark states approximately 11,840 employees at December 31, 2025, 330 in design and development engineering, with 740 contractors apart, in manufacturing facilities across the Americas, Asia and Europe, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at electronic components by description (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, 35% at the end of 2027, 44% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 14% people work and 37% 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 49% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 41% 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

11,840 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; it names manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico, China, Malaysia, Thailand, the Netherlands and Romania, and 64% of sales were international.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 11,840 people, approximately 330 of whom were engaged in design and development engineering.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 330 in design and development engineering; a contractor workforce of approximately 740 counted apart; no domestic employees represented by a union, some international employees by unions and works councils.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Semiconductor and Other Electronic 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.

• Amphenol Corporation (APH, 170,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• Flex Ltd. (FLEX, 149,686 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
• Jabil Inc. (JBL, 135,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
• TE Connectivity plc (TEL, 93,000 employees)18% now, 44% by 2028
• Intel Corp. (INTC, 85,100 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• Micron Technology, Inc. (MU, 53,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM, 52,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• Coherent, Inc. (COHR, 51,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as a technology competitors may respond to more quickly, as a possible new manufacturing process it is evaluating with machine learning, and as a confidentiality risk if contractors or vendors use third-party AI tools in its business.

• “Some of our competitors have substantially greater financial, manufacturing or marketing resources than we do, have more geographically diversified international operations than we do and may respond more quickly than us to advancements in technology, such as artificial intelligence.”
• “We are continually evaluating the advantages and feasibility of new manufacturing processes (including utilization of machine learning and artificial intelligence).”
• “If any of our contractors, consultants, vendors or service providers use any third-party artificial intelligence-powered software or other tools in connection with our business or the services they provide to us, it may lead to the inadvertent disclosure of our confidential information through its incorporation into publicly available training sets, which may impact our ability to realize the b...”

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 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 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.

Limits of this reading

• Approximately 740 contractors are counted apart and left out (rule 8).
• The U.S. share is not stated; 64% of sales are international.
• No count by kind of work beyond the 330 engineers, a function count kept inside: the one pattern is by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-064849, 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.