Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (CHD)

Household and personal care products maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 23 of the 71 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Church & Dwight’s approximately 5,550 employees, 85% in the Americas, make laundry, household, personal care and health products, split 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: 20% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 37% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 37% desk work, 14% people work and 49% 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 63% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 30% 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

5,550 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). About 85% of the workforce is in the Americas, 11% in EMEA and 4% in Asia-Pacific; the U.S. alone is not counted.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 5,550 global employees, a decrease of approximately 200 compared to December 31, 2024.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 5,550 employees, down about 200 in the year; 85% in the Americas; about 55% salaried and 45% hourly; turnover about 17%; revenue per employee about $1.12 million.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Chemical Manufacturing (3255 and 3256 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG, 43,500 employees)20% now, 34% by 2028
• Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL, 33,600 employees)20% now, 33% by 2028
• Kenvue Inc. (KVUE, 22,000 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• RPM International Inc. (RPM, 17,546 employees)19% now, 32% by 2028
• Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (AXTA, 12,300 employees)20% now, 34% by 2028
• Coty Inc. (COTY, 11,335 employees)20% now, 34% by 2028
• The Clorox Company (CLX, 9,200 employees)19% now, 32% by 2028
• H.B. Fuller Company (FUL, 7,100 employees)20% now, 34% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

8 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI eight times: AI and machine learning adopted by competitors, AI in its own operations upgrades, and the evolving rules.

• “Many of these companies have greater financial resources than we do, and these competitors, as well as new market entrants, may therefore, have the capacity to outspend us on advertising and promotional activities and introduce competing products or adopt new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, more quickly, successfully and effectively, and respond more effectiv...”
• “We incur significant costs on an ongoing basis to upgrade and maintain various facilities, equipment, or technologies, including data management, improved equipment, and artificial intelligence to upgrade our operations and increase productivity.”
• “In addition, the legal, regulatory and ethical landscape around the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is rapidly evolving.”
• “Further, the use of generative artificial intelligence tools may compromise confidential or sensitive information, put the Company's intellectual property at risk, or subject the Company to claims of intellectual property infringement, all of which could damage the Company's reputation.”
• “Increased information technology security threats and more sophisticated computer crime, including viruses and malware, ransomware attacks, misuse of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, denial of service and phishing attacks and advanced persistent threats, pose a potential risk to the security of our information technology systems, networks, and services, and those of ou...”

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 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20245median 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

• No count by product; the split among household products, health products and basic chemicals is by description.
• The Americas are stated, not the United States, so the U.S. share is null.
• The segment table shows one line at 100% and is not usable.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-048139, 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.