Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (BKD)
Senior living communities operator. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 40 of the 41 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
14%
End of 2028
19%
Employees, annual report
33,000
Leading staffing pattern
Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now14%
- End of 202718%
- End of 202819%
- End of 203019%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 81%
- Becomes checking a model's work 14%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states approximately 33,000 associates, 68% full-time and 1,300 in central and regional support, all in senior living communities, so one pattern carries the whole 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: 14% now, 18% at the end of 2027, 19% at the end of 2028, 19% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 19% desk work, 23% people work and 58% 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 81% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 14% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
33,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 33,000 associates, 68% of whom were full-time.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly | 100% | Senior living communities, independent and assisted living and memory care, with the central and regional support staff inside the pattern (NAICS 6233, the SIC 8050 business); by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 33,000 associates, 68% full-time; about 1,300 centralized and regional community support associates; contract labor fills some shifts and is not counted, as the filing states; associates at communities managed for others are the company's employees.
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in its risk factors: competitors adopting it faster, attackers using advanced AI, and the privacy and security risks of integrating AI into its own operations.
- “Further, our competitors or other third parties may incorporate advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, into their business operations or services more quickly or more successfully than us, which could impair our ability to compete effectively.”
- “Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to systems change frequently and may be difficult to detect for long periods of time, including from emerging technologies, such as advanced forms of artificial intelligence ("AI") and quantum computing, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventive measures.”
- “To the extent we integrate AI into our operations, this may increase the cybersecurity and privacy risks, including the risk of unauthorized or misuse of AI tools we are exposed to, and threat actors may leverage AI to engage in automated, targeted, and coordinated attacks of our systems.”
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 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20242median 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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 33,000 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 36,000 | 2025-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 36,000 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 36,000 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 33,000 | 2022-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 45,000 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 38,400 | 2020-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 43,200 | 2019-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 49,500 | 2018-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 50,100 | 2017-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 53,000 | 2016-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 52,500 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 30,000 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 30,000 | 2013-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 29,200 | 2012-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 23,900 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 23,500 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 22,200 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 21,600 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 21,000 | 2007-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 9,860 | 2006-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- One pattern by description (c): the filing counts full-time and support associates, not employees by kind of community.
- Associates at managed communities are counted as the filing counts them (rule 8); contract labor is not.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001332349-26-000032, 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 Brookdale Senior Living Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 14% now and 19% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Brookdale Senior Living Inc.'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 Brookdale Senior Living Inc. employ?
- 33,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Brookdale Senior Living Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly; by those patterns the work is about 19% desk work, 23% people work and 58% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Brookdale Senior Living Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 2 and 3 sentences, year by year. 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 2, 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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