Bob's Discount Furniture, Inc. (BOBS)
Furniture stores counted by store, warehouse and office. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 28, 2025, filed March 18, 2026. Ranked 37 of the 184 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
24%
End of 2028
34%
Employees, annual report
5,950
Leading staffing pattern
Furniture and Home Furnishings Retailers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now24%
- End of 202732%
- End of 202834%
- End of 203035%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 64%
- Becomes checking a model's work 22%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
Bob’s Discount Furniture’s 5,950 employees are 4,458 in stores, 961 in distribution centers and 531 at headquarters, each counted by the filing.
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: 24% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 35% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 35% desk work, 21% people work and 44% 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 64% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 22% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,950 employees as of December 28, 2025 (stated). The filing’s human capital excerpt counts no employees by country.
The filing: “As of December 28, 2025, we had approximately 5,950 employees, consisting of approximately 1,123 salaried employees and 4,827 hourly, commissioned or mileage-based employees. As of that date, approximately 4,458 of our employees were based in our stores, 961 of our employees were based in our distribution centers and 531 of our employees were based in our corporate headquarters.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture and Home Furnishings Retailers | 75% | By (a): the filing counts 4,458 of 5,950 employees in its stores, furniture retailers. |
| Warehousing and Storage | 16% | By (a): the filing counts 961 employees in its distribution centers, warehouse and delivery work. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 9% | By (a): the filing counts 531 employees at its corporate headquarters, a stated headquarters count, rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 5,950 employees: 1,123 salaried and 4,827 hourly, commissioned or mileage-based; 4,458 in stores, 961 in distribution centers, 531 at headquarters; the first filing after the IPO.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Furniture and Home Furnishings Retailers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSM, 19,800 employees)24% now, 31% by 2028
- Wayfair Inc. (W, 12,800 employees)26% now, 33% by 2028
- Rh (RH, 7,230 employees)19% now, 25% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
12 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI twelve times: AI-driven search, product visualization, targeting and recommendations in its digital platform.
- “Digital investments have enabled real-time cart continuity (OmniCart), artificial intelligence ("AI") driven search and virtual product visualization.”
- “Additionally, our AI-powered targeting has enabled more precise audience engagement and has driven improvement in return on advertising spend.”
- “The platform instills customer confidence through detailed product information, room inspiration, 3D 15 visualization, rich customer reviews and AI-driven recommendations tailored to style, budget and household needs, which streamlines the purchase process and drives higher conversion and basket sizes.”
- “AI deployment optimizes supply chain and freight operations, improving demand forecasting, inventory management and route planning to reduce costs and accelerate delivery.”
- “Techniques used for cyber-attacks designed to gain unauthorized access to these types of sensitive information by breaching or sabotaging critical systems of organizations, including those that use artificial intelligence, are constantly evolving and generally are difficult to recognize and react to effectively.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-28 | 5,950 | 2026-03-18 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount series holds one year, this filing.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-019015, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Bob's Discount Furniture, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 24% now and 34% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Bob's Discount Furniture, 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 Bob's Discount Furniture, Inc. employ?
- 5,950 as of December 28, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 28, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Bob's Discount Furniture, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Furniture and Home Furnishings Retailers; by those patterns the work is about 35% desk work, 21% people work and 44% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Bob's Discount Furniture, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 12 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 19, 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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