Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK)
Can and packaging maker, 23,000, counted by segment. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 43 of the 85 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
31%
Employees, annual report
23,000
Leading staffing pattern
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- End of 202728%
- End of 202831%
- End of 203032%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 67%
- Becomes checking a model's work 27%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
A packaging maker whose filing counts its employees by segment, all of them fabricated metal work, so the whole workforce takes that subsector with the counts recorded.
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, 28% at the end of 2027, 31% at the end of 2028, 32% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 32% desk work, 12% people work and 56% 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 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% 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
23,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; 39% of revenue is from the United States and the plants are in 39 countries.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, the Comp any operated 179 plants along with sales and service facilities throughout 39 countries an d had approximately 23,000 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing | 100% | Counted (a): 6,000 in Americas Beverage, 4,000 in European Beverage, 3,500 in Asia Pacific and 2,500 in other business units make metal cans, and 7,000 in Transit Packaging make steel strapping and packaging equipment; all are fabricated metal products, read at the subsector because the site carries no group for metal containers or other fabricated metal products. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 23,000 employees worldwide as of December 31, 2025 at 179 plants in 39 countries: 6,000 Americas Beverage, 4,000 European Beverage, 3,500 Asia Pacific, 7,000 Transit Packaging, 2,500 other business units; about 10,500 under collective bargaining agreements.
What the filing says about AI
4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 4 times, as a technology threat actors use and as a source of operational and compliance risk in its own use.
- “These threats also may be further enhanced in frequency or effectiveness through threat actors' use of new technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum computing.”
- “The Company's reliance on third-party cloud infrastructure and its use of artificial intelligence technologies create operational, security, and compliance risks.”
- “New technologies, such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, may present new technological risks or vulnerabilities that could compromise the Company's systems and data.”
- “If the data used to train artificial intelligence solutions or the content, analyses, or recommendations that machine learning applications assist in producing is deemed to be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or questionable, the Company's brand and reputation may be harmed, and the Company may be subject to legal liability claims.”
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 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20254median 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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 23,000 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 23,000 | 2025-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 25,000 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 26,000 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 26,000 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 33,000 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 33,000 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 33,000 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 24,000 | 2018-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 24,000 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 24,000 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 23,000 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 21,300 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 21,900 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 20,700 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 20,500 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 20,500 | 2010-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 21,300 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 21,800 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 21,749 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 24,055 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 27,600 | 2005-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 27,500 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 28,300 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The segment counts are recorded; the site has no narrower pattern than the fabricated metal subsector for cans or strapping.
- No U.S. share is stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-012904, 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 Crown Holdings, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 31% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Crown Holdings, 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 Crown Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 23,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Crown Holdings, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 32% desk work, 12% people work and 56% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Crown Holdings, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 4 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 1 and 4 sentences, year by year. 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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