The Clorox Company (CLX)

Cleaning, household and food products maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026, filed August 7, 2026. Ranked 28 of the 62 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A consumer products maker whose filing states 9,200 people with 77% in the U.S. and production shares by region but nothing by product, so its cleaning products lead by description with plastics, food and charcoal beside them.

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, 29% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 13% people work and 54% 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

9,200 employees as of June 30, 2026 (stated). Stated: 77% in the United States and 23% outside it as of June 30, 2026.

The filing: “Workforce As of June 30, 2026, the Company employed about 9,200 people worldwide, with 77% in the United States and 23% working outside the United States.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 9,200 people worldwide as of June 30, 2026 (7,600 a year earlier, the increase primarily from the GOJO acquisition): 77% in the United States and 23% outside; the U.S. workforce 43% nonproduction and 57% production, the workforce outside 58% nonproduction and 42% production; a recordable incident rate of 0.63.

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
• H.B. Fuller Company (FUL, 7,100 employees)20% now, 34% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

13 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as a competitive risk: competitors and retailers increasingly use artificial intelligence, data analytics and automation, and failing to adopt emerging technologies such as AI responsibly and in time could impair its competitive position.

• “These activities principally involve: development and improvement of product formulations, including cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing chemistries, food and flavor technologies, filtration systems, and skin health and hygiene solutions; innovation in packaging design, including efforts to reduce the use of plastic and develop recyclable, reusable or otherwise more sustainable packaging; de...”
• “These competitors, as well as new or smaller market entrants, may choose to spend more aggressively on advertising and promotional activities, introduce competing products more quickly, adopt new technology, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, more quickly and successfully, and respond more effectively to changing business and macroeconomic conditions and consumer preferences...”
• “Failure to continually innovate and respond effectively to competition and changing consumer habits and preferences, including through the timely, responsible adoption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, could further impair the Company's competitive position, particularly as competitors and retailers increasingly use artificial intelligence, data analytics, and automation...”
• “In addition, the increasing use of artificial intelligence by discovery and retailer platforms to personalize recommendations, pricing, and promotions may shift influence from brands to retailers, requiring the Company to increase investments to maintain brand visibility.”
• “In addition, the legal, regulatory and ethical landscape around the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is rapidly evolving.”

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 20246median 4
• Fiscal 20254median 10
• Fiscal 202613

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 category: the split among cleaning, plastics, food and charcoal is by description (c), the segments being by channel and geography.
• Production shares are stated by region (57% U.S., 42% outside) and recorded in the notes, not as a pattern split.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000021076-26-000034, 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.