CNA Financial Corporation (CNA)
Commercial property and casualty insurer, one pattern. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 10, 2026. Ranked 49 of the 101 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
39%
End of 2028
68%
Employees, annual report
6,600
Leading staffing pattern
Insurance Carriers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now39%
- End of 202759%
- End of 202868%
- End of 203071%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 29%
- Becomes checking a model's work 61%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
CNA Financial’s approximately 6,600 employees underwrite and service commercial property and casualty insurance across its segments, read as one insurance carrier pattern 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: 39% now, 59% at the end of 2027, 68% at the end of 2028, 71% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 71% desk work, 25% people work and 4% 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 29% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 61% 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
6,600 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; its International segment is 10% of revenue.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 6,600 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Insurance Carriers | 100% | By description (c): a commercial property and casualty insurer with Commercial, Specialty, International and Life and Group segments, carrier work throughout; no count by kind of work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 6,600 employees; trainee, internship and apprenticeship programs; no counts by status, segment or union.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Insurance Carriers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- UnitedHealth Group (UNH, 390,000 employees)33% now, 54% by 2028
- Elevance Health (ELV, 97,100 employees)36% now, 62% by 2028
- The Progressive Corporation (PGR, 70,000 employees)39% now, 68% by 2028
- Cigna Corporation (CI, 67,700 employees)37% now, 60% by 2028
- Humana Inc. (HUM, 67,060 employees)34% now, 54% by 2028
- Centene Corp. (CNC, 61,100 employees)39% now, 68% by 2028
- The Allstate Corporation (ALL, 53,000 employees)39% now, 68% by 2028
- MetLife, Inc. (MET, 46,000 employees)39% now, 68% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
15 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 15 times: AI among evolving regulation, competitors’ use of big data and AI in underwriting, and its own use of AI as a competitive matter.
- “In addition, the U.S. and foreign regulatory environment in which we operate is continuously evolving, with both existing and prospective regulations that implicate aspects of our corporate governance, public disclosures and risk management, climate change, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity practices. 4 Table of Contents Human Capital As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 6,600...”
- “For example, more insurers are utilizing or may begin utilizing "big data" analytics or artificial intelligence (AI) to make underwriting or other 9 Table of Contents decisions that impact product design and pricing.”
- “If such utilization by our industry peers is more effective than how we use our data and information, including through our own use of AI, we will be at a competitive disadvantage.”
- “Our efforts or the efforts of agents and brokers with respect to new products or alternate distribution channels, as well as changes in the way agents and brokers utilize greater levels of data and technology, including AI, could adversely impact our business relationship with independent agents and brokers who currently market our products, resulting in a lower volume and/or profitability of b...”
- “Further, our business could be affected as our policyholders adopt AI technologies.”
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 20246median 4
- Fiscal 202515median 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 | 6,600 | 2026-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 6,500 | 2025-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,300 | 2024-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,100 | 2023-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,600 | 2022-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 5,800 | 2021-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 5,900 | 2020-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 6,100 | 2019-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 6,300 | 2018-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 6,700 | 2017-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 6,900 | 2016-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 6,900 | 2015-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 7,035 | 2014-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 7,500 | 2013-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 7,600 | 2012-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 8,000 | 2011-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 8,900 | 2010-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 9,000 | 2009-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 9,400 | 2008-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 9,800 | 2007-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 10,100 | 2006-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 10,600 | 2005-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 12,100 | 2004-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 15,500 | 2003-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 17,274 | 2002-03-08 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 19,100 | 2001-03-16 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 19,600 | 2000-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 23,600 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 24,700 | 1998-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 24,300 | 1997-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 25,000 | 1996-04-01 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 15,600 | 1995-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 16,800 | 1994-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by kind of work or country; one carrier pattern by description.
- The geography table shows the Specialty segment at 100% and is not usable.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000021175-26-000011, 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 CNA Financial Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 39% now and 68% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce CNA Financial 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 CNA Financial Corporation employ?
- 6,600 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up CNA Financial Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Insurance Carriers; by those patterns the work is about 71% desk work, 25% people work and 4% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does CNA Financial Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 15 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 6 and 15 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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