The Workforce AI Index · Real Estate
CBRE Group, Inc. (CBRE)
Facilities services, advisory and project consultancy. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-12. Ranked 2 of the 2 Real Estate companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
A real estate services firm whose filing states that most of its own employees work on reimbursed client sites, so facilities support takes the largest share and advisory and project management follow 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: 19% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 35% at the end of 2028, 37% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 37% desk work, 18% people work and 46% 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), 27% 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
155,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). No U.S. share of employees is stated; 56% of revenue is from the United States.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we had more than 155,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Facilities Support Services | 55% | By (a) with a limit: the filing states that the costs of about 61% of its employees outside Turner & Townsend are reimbursed by clients, mainly in its building operations segment, which is facilities management on clients' sites; the Turner & Townsend count is not stated, so the share is 61% of the rest, about 55%. |
| Real Estate | 30% | By (c): the advisory segment, 51% of revenue, is leasing, sales, mortgage and property management, the work BLS counts under real estate, with no headcount of its own stated. |
| Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services | 15% | By (c): the project management segment, 44% of revenue, is Turner & Townsend's program and project consultancy, whose employee count the filing includes but does not state. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 18% of employees outside Turner & Townsend are under collective bargaining agreements; independent contractors also work in over 100 countries and are not counted; the headcount rose from 140,000 in 2024.
What the filing says about AI
8 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it makes significant investments in AI and machine learning technologies for competitive advantage and efficiency, including generative and agentic AI tools, and lists the costs, data quality and talent such investments require as risks.
- “In addition, we make significant investments in new systems and tools to achieve competitive advantages and efficiencies, including the adoption and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies.”
- “Implementation of such investments in information technology, including generative and agentic AI tools, could be complicated, heavily dependent on the quality, accuracy and relevance of data inputs and methodologies, require sophisticated infrastructure and skilled talent, have ethical and societal implications, and could exceed estimated budgets.”
- “With respect to AI capabilities in particular, leveraging such AI capabilities for our internal functions and operations may present new risks, costs and challenges.”
- “The development, adoption and use of AI technologies is still in the early stages and involves significant uncertainties, which may expose us to legal, reputational and financial harm.”
- “Moreover, the use of AI may give rise to risks related to harmful content, accuracy, bias, intellectual property infringement or misappropriation, defamation, data privacy, cybersecurity and health and safety, among others, and also brings the possibility of new or enhanced governmental or regulatory scrutiny, litigation or other legal liability, or ethical concerns and could adversely affect o...”
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 | 155,000 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 140,000 | 2025-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 130,000 | 2024-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 115,000 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 105,000 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 100,000 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 100,000 | 2020-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 90,000 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 80,000 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 75,000 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 70,000 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 52,000 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 44,000 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 37,000 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 34,000 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 31,000 | 2011-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 29,000 | 2010-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 30,000 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 29,000 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 24,000 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 14,500 | 2006-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 13,500 | 2005-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 13,500 | 2004-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 9,500 | 2003-03-25 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 9,300 | 2002-03-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The facilities support share rests on a stated cost-reimbursement percentage (a) applied to an unstated base, since Turner & Townsend's count is included but not given.
- The advisory and project management shares rest on description and revenue (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001138118-26-000005, 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 CBRE Group, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 35% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce CBRE Group, 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 CBRE Group, Inc. employ?
- 155,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up CBRE Group, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Facilities Support Services; by those patterns the work is about 37% desk work, 18% people work and 46% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does CBRE Group, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 8 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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