Bruker Corporation (BRKR)

Scientific instruments, counted by function, 20% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 40 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Bruker states approximately 11,085 employees at December 31, 2025, 20.2% in the United States, with 45.8% in production and distribution, 23.5% in selling and marketing, 17.6% in research and development and 13.1% in general and administrative functions, so the instrument business takes the operating functions and the stated administrative share goes to management of companies (a).

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: 20% now, 41% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 56% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 56% desk work, 18% people work and 26% 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 44% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 45% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

11,085 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states approximately 20.2% of employees located in the United States.

The filing: “Workforce Composition As of December 31, 2025, Bruker had approximately 11,085 employees worldwide.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: By function: 45.8% production and distribution, 23.5% selling and marketing, 17.6% research and development, 13.1% general and administrative; 20.2% in the United States; the count fell from 11,396 a year earlier.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments 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.

• Medtronic plc (MDT, 95,000 employees)19% now, 43% by 2028
• Emerson Electric Co. (EMR, 71,000 employees)20% now, 48% by 2028
• Danaher Corporation (DHR, 60,000 employees)19% now, 45% by 2028
• GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC, 54,000 employees)19% now, 50% by 2028
• L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX, 45,000 employees)18% now, 48% by 2028
• Rockwell Automation, Inc. (ROK, 26,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Garmin Ltd. (GRMN, 23,000 employees)19% now, 49% by 2028
• AMETEK, Inc. (AME, 22,500 employees)18% now, 42% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

8 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names software for workflow integration, automation and AI readiness under FAIR data principles, and a data management suite designed for digitalization and AI readiness; nothing on its own operations.

• “It offers comprehensive software solutions for workflow integration, automation, and artificial intelligence readiness, adhering to Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability ("FAIR") data principles. 3 Table of Contents Automation: Provides solutions for lab automation and digitalization in Research & Development and Quality Control.”
• “Software-Comprehensive data management suite Designed to facilitate digitalization and readiness for artificial intelligence and automation.”
• “BSI NANO The BSI NANO Segment's recent innovations include an EBSD detector based on direct electron detection for ultra-fast and ultra-sensitive characterization of crystalline materials in electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes for investigations under non-ambient conditions, an X-ray µCT system that delivers functionality of a floor standing system in a compact bench-top des...”
• “In addition, technology is subject to rapid advancements and changes, and our competitors may, from time to time, implement newer technologies or more advanced platforms for their services and products, including platforms based on artificial intelligence.”
• “In addition, our efforts to utilize technological advancements such as artificial intelligence may result in substantial integration and maintenance costs and may expose us to additional risks.”

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 20248median 4
• Fiscal 20258median 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

• The research and development function (17.6%) stays inside the instruments pattern as a function share without an organization of its own.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-082523, 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.