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Baker Hughes Company (BKR)
Energy technology maker, split by segment revenue. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-05. Ranked 1 of the 2 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 56,000 employees, more than 45,000 abroad, and nothing by segment, so the patterns follow segment revenue, oilfield services and energy technology (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: 16% now, 27% at the end of 2027, 31% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 13% people work and 54% 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 61% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 31% 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
56,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing states more than 45,000 of 56,000 employees work outside the U.S., leaving at most about 11,000 in it.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 56,000 employees. More than 45,000 of our employees work outside the U.S. in over 85 different countries.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Support Activities for Mining | 45% | By revenue (c): the services inside Oilfield Services and Equipment at 52% of revenue, well construction and completion services in the field, with no count by segment. |
| Engine, Turbine, and Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing | 35% | By revenue (c): Industrial and Energy Technology at 48% of revenue, gas turbines, compressors and turbomachinery, with no stated count. |
| Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only) | 20% | By description (c): the oilfield equipment manufacturing inside Oilfield Services and Equipment, the machinery its SIC code names, with no stated count. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 56,000 employees, more than 45,000 outside the U.S. in over 85 countries with more than 150 nationalities; over 260 health, safety and environment courses.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Support Activities for Mining, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Slb N.V. (SLB, 109,000 employees)16% now, 29% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
25 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 25 sentences: growing demand for AI-based solutions in customers' digital transformations, its Cordant AI-enabled plant offering, and AI among the technologies it develops.
- “Digital & artificial intelligence ("AI") advancement: We are seeing growing demand for more intelligent operations and the adoption of AI-based solutions as part of our customers' digital transformations.”
- “Industrial Solutions combines several product lines to leverage our critical equipment hardware capability to migrate to full-plant offerings through Cordant TM , a modular AI-enabled enterprise solution.”
- “Such technologies include advanced materials, advanced manufacturing technologies, novel process technologies, and digital technologies such as advanced sensing & diagnostics, data sciences, and AI.”
- “The Board's Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee provides oversight of our environmental matters, including monitoring its sustainability strategy and initiatives, the management of employee health, safety, and wellness matters, and oversight of our positions on corporate social responsibilities and public issues of significance, including those related to privacy, digital safety a...”
- “The Board's Audit Committee provides oversight over our risk assessment and risk management policies and processes, including data privacy, AI, and compliance reporting.”
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 | 56,000 | 2026-02-05 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 57,000 | 2025-02-04 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 58,000 | 2024-02-05 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 55,000 | 2023-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 54,000 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 55,000 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 68,000 | 2020-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 66,000 | 2019-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 64,000 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts people inside and outside the U.S., not by segment; the pattern shares rest on segment revenue and description (c).
- Most of the workforce is abroad; the patterns apply abroad because the work is the same in kind (rule 7).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001701605-26-000007, 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 Baker Hughes Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 31% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Baker Hughes 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 Baker Hughes Company employ?
- 56,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 20% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Baker Hughes Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Support Activities for Mining; by those patterns the work is about 33% desk work, 13% people work and 54% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Baker Hughes Company's annual report say about AI?
- 25 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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