Chemed Corporation (CHE)
Hospice care and plumbing services. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 87 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
15,811
Leading staffing pattern
Home Health Care Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202722%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203024%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 76%
- Becomes checking a model's work 19%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states 15,811 employees across VITAS, the hospice business, and Roto-Rooter, the plumbing business, with no count by segment, so the split follows segment revenue.
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: 17% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 26% people work and 51% 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 76% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 19% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
15,811 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated as a count; both businesses operate in the United States by the filing's description.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company, including its subsidiaries Roto-Rooter and VITAS, had a total of 15,811 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Home Health Care Services | 65% | VITAS, the hospice business, is 64% of revenue and its employees are frontline healthcare workers giving patient care at home, read at home health care services by segment revenue (c), the only split the filing supports. |
| Building Equipment Contractors | 35% | Roto-Rooter, the plumbing, drain cleaning, excavation and water restoration business, is 36% of revenue and its field employees are technicians trained on torch, drain machine and electrical safety, read at building equipment contractors (plumbing) by segment revenue (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 15,811 across Roto-Rooter and VITAS, both service businesses with field and frontline healthcare employees; VITAS paid over $39.2 million in stay bonuses under its Difference Maker Program since July 2022; no hourly, part-time or union figure stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Home Health Care Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (AVAH, 32,000 employees)16% now, 21% by 2028
- BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. Common Stock (BTSG, 23,500 employees)22% now, 27% by 2028
- AdaptHealth Corp. (AHCO, 10,900 employees)19% now, 26% by 2028
- The Pennant Group, Inc. (PNTG, 9,700 employees)15% now, 20% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
4 sentences in the filing name AI. Four sentences: customers' use of AI platforms and changing search algorithms may make marketing more expensive and harder, and the growing use of AI and other new technologies adds system and security risks, including with telehealth.
- “Also, effective marketing and advertising may become more expensive and more difficult as search engines revise algorithms, customers use of artificial intelligence ("AI") platforms become more prevalent and business models and customers change how they find our services.”
- “Additionally, the increasing development and use of AI and other new and evolving technologies create additional system and other risks.”
- “The current environment, particularly in 18 healthcare and with the increase in use of AI and other new technologies, has significantly increased our usage of information technology systems and heightened the need for security of those systems with the increase in telehealth.”
- “To combat the ever-increasing sophistication of cyberattacks including the potential use of AI by threat actors, we continuously work to improve methods for detecting and preventing attacks.”
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 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 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 | 15,811 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 15,695 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 15,087 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 14,167 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 14,137 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 15,544 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 16,641 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 15,707 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 14,813 | 2018-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 14,613 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 14,406 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 14,190 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 13,952 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 14,096 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 13,733 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 13,058 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 12,308 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 11,884 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 11,783 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 11,621 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 10,881 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 9,822 | 2005-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 6,000 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 3,335 | 2003-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 7,595 | 2002-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 7,591 | 2001-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 7,817 | 2000-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 7,671 | 1999-03-25 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 6,849 | 1998-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 7,886 | 1997-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 7,335 | 1996-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 6,602 | 1995-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-31 | 4,834 | 1994-03-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the split between hospice care and plumbing services follows segment revenue (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated as a count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001562762-26-000020, 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 Chemed Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Chemed Corporation'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 Chemed Corporation employ?
- 15,811 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Chemed Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Home Health Care Services; by those patterns the work is about 24% desk work, 26% people work and 51% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Chemed Corporation'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, 0, 0 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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