BlackRock, Inc. (BLK)

Asset manager, 24,900, 40% in the Americas. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 32 of the 37 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An asset manager whose filing states one total by region and names its technology business without counting it, so investment work leads with a software share by description.

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: 35% now, 61% at the end of 2027, 71% at the end of 2028, 74% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 74% desk work, 23% people work and 3% 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 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 63% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

24,900 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states 40% of employees in the Americas, 31% in EMEA and 29% in Asia-Pacific, not a U.S. count.

The filing: “With approximately 24,900 employees in more than 30 countries who serve clients in over 100 countries across the globe, BlackRock provides a broad range of investment management and technology and subscription services to institutional and retail clients worldwide.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 24,900 employees in more than 30 countries as of December 31, 2025 (21,100 a year earlier); 40% in the Americas, 31% in EMEA, 29% in Asia-Pacific; retention awards granted to employees of acquired firms.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Morgan Stanley (MS, 83,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• State Street Corporation (STT, 52,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY, 48,100 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS, 47,400 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• S&P Global Inc. (SPGI, 44,500 employees)32% now, 70% by 2028
• The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW, 33,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS, 23,800 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. (BAM, 5,800 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

26 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 26 times, as an area of investment in its Aladdin platform and in the financial technology companies it holds stakes in.

• “This commitment is further extended by minority investments in financial technology and digital distribution providers, data and whole portfolio capabilities including Viridium, Generation Life, Securitize, Upvest, Avaloq, Human Interest, Circle, Clarity AI, Envestnet, Acorns, Scalable Capital and iCapital.”
• “BlackRock is focused on enhancing Aladdin, with continued investment into areas such as AI, whole portfolio, private markets, and wealth.”
• “In addition, BlackRock has made minority investments in financial technology and digital distribution providers, data and whole portfolio capabilities including Viridium, Generation Life, Securitize, Upvest, Avaloq, Human Interest, Circle, Clarity AI, Envestnet, Acorns, Scalable Capital and iCapital.”
• “US Outbound Investment Regime Beginning in January 2025, the US government has implemented an outbound investment screening program restricting certain investments in designated "countries of concern." The program: (1) prohibits US persons from engaging in specified transactions; and (2) requires notification to regulators of other transactions involving companies in those jurisdictions operati...”
• “Digital Omnibus In November 2025, the EC proposed a Digital Omnibus package intended to take a holistic view across digital legislation at the EU level, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, Data Act, ePrivacy Directive and cybersecurity laws to reduce complexity and duplication.”

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 202418median 4
• Fiscal 202526median 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

• Pattern shares rest on descriptions (c); the technology share is a tenth by description.
• No U.S. share is stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-071966, 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.