CMS Energy Corporation (CMS)

Michigan electric and gas utility, 44% union. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 10, 2026. Ranked 14 of the 30 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A Michigan utility whose filing's table counts 8,350 employees with 8,095 at Consumers and 44% union, and nothing by electric and gas, so electric power leads by description with a gas share.

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: 21% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 42% at the end of 2028, 45% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 45% desk work, 15% people work and 40% 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 50% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 39% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

8,350 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes only Michigan utility operations, so the U.S. share is recorded as 1 with a flag; no count by country is stated.

The filing: “Presented in the following table are the number of employees of CMS Energy and Consumers: December 31, 2025, CMS Energy, including Consumers, full-time and part-time employees 8,350; Consumers 8,095.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 8,350 full-time and part-time employees at December 31, 2025 (8,324 a year earlier), 8,095 at Consumers; unions represent 44% of CMS Energy's and 45% of Consumers' employees (the UWUA for operating, maintenance, construction and contact center employees, the USW at the Zeeland plant), agreements expiring in 2029 and 2030; OSHA recordable incident rate 2.34; 26% female, 13% racially or ethnically diverse, 10% veterans.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• The Southern Company (SO, 29,800 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• PG&E Corporation (PCG, 29,010 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028
• Duke Energy Corporation (DUK, 26,441 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• Exelon Corporation (EXC, 20,571 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP, 17,581 employees)24% now, 50% by 2028
• NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, 17,400 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG, 16,702 employees)19% now, 32% by 2028
• Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED, 15,407 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says the rapid expansion of data centers for cloud services, artificial intelligence and other applications could lead to an unprecedented increase in demand for electric power in MISO and in Consumers' territory.

• “Army Corps of Engineers, and potential environmental remediation costs associated with these interpretations or decisions, including those that may affect Consumers' coal ash management or routine maintenance, repair, and replacement classification under New Source Review, a construction-permitting program under the Clean Air Act changes in energy markets, including availability, price, and sea...”
• “Rapid expansion of data centers associated with increasing demand for cloud services, artificial intelligence, and other applications could lead to an unprecedented increase in demand for electric power in MISO and in Consumers' service territory.”

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 20242median 4
• Fiscal 20252median 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

• The collector found no count; the filing's table states 8,350 full-time and part-time employees (rule 2).
• The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only Michigan operations; it states no count by country.
• No count by electric and gas: the split is by description (c); the data service's segment table is by customer class and is not used.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000811156-26-000004, 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.