Crocs, Inc. (CROX)
Footwear brand with 4,940 store employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 80 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
8,010
Leading staffing pattern
Shoe Retailers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- End of 202724%
- End of 202824%
- End of 203025%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 70%
- Becomes checking a model's work 19%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
A footwear brand whose filing counts its 8,010 employees by stores, offices and distribution centers, so the stores lead and each count takes its own pattern.
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, 24% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 25% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 25% desk work, 20% people work and 55% 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 70% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 19% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
8,010 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: the filing counts by kind of location, not by country; the data service's 56% Americas is revenue.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed more than 8,010 employees globally, including approximately 4,940 employees in our retail stores, 2,230 employees at our corporate/regional offices, and 840 employees at our distribution centers.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Shoe Retailers | 62% | By (a): the filing counts approximately 4,940 employees in its retail stores, 62% of 8,010. |
| Footwear Manufacturing | 28% | By (a) for the count and description (c) for the pattern: the filing counts approximately 2,230 employees at its corporate and regional offices who design, source, market and sell the Crocs and HEYDUDE brands, read at footwear manufacturing as Nike's brand staff were, production being outsourced. |
| Warehousing and Storage | 10% | By (a): the filing counts approximately 840 employees at its distribution centers, 10% of 8,010, read at warehousing. |
What the filing says about the workforce: More than 8,010 employees globally as of December 31, 2025 (7,910 a year earlier): about 4,940 in retail stores, 2,230 at corporate and regional offices, 840 at distribution centers; the human capital excerpt is otherwise risk factor text.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Shoe Retailers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- NIKE, Inc. (NKE, 73,000 employees)20% now, 30% by 2028
- Genesco Inc. (GCO, 16,000 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
- Designer Brands Inc. (DBI, 13,000 employees)24% now, 31% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
10 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says issues in the development and use of artificial intelligence, with an uncertain regulatory environment, may result in reputational harm, liability or other adverse consequences, and that AI presents risks and challenges that could affect its business.
- “These risks include, but are not limited to, the following: our substantial dependence on the value of our brands and our failure to strengthen and preserve this value; the significant competition that we face; introducing new products, which may be difficult and expensive; our failure to adequately protect our trademarks and other intellectual property rights and counterfeiting of our brand; o...”
- “Issues in the development and use of artificial intelligence, combined with an uncertain regulatory environment, may result in reputational harm, liability, or other adverse consequences to our business operations.”
- “As with many technological innovations, artificial intelligence presents risks and challenges that could impact our business.”
- “We have adopted and integrate generative artificial intelligence tools into our systems for specific use cases, such as marketing, product creation, planning, and general company operations, reviewed by legal and information security, and may continue to do so.”
- “Our vendors may incorporate generative artificial intelligence tools into their offerings without disclosing this use to us, and the providers of these generative artificial intelligence tools may not meet existing or rapidly evolving regulatory or industry standards with respect to privacy and data protection and may inhibit our or our vendors' ability to maintain an adequate level of service...”
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 20237median 1
- Fiscal 20247median 4
- Fiscal 202510median 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 | 8,010 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 7,910 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 7,030 | 2024-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,680 | 2023-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,770 | 2022-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,600 | 2021-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | not read | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 3,901 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,382 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,068 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 5,400 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 4,900 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 5,000 | 2014-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 4,900 | 2013-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 4,157 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 4,000 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 3,560 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,700 | 2009-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 5,300 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,900 | 2007-04-02 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 1,130 | 2006-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is not stated.
- The corporate and regional office count holds the brand, design and wholesale work and is read at the footwear pattern by description, not at management of companies.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001334036-26-000006, 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 Crocs, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Crocs, Inc.'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 Crocs, Inc. employ?
- 8,010 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Crocs, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Shoe Retailers; by those patterns the work is about 25% desk work, 20% people work and 55% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Crocs, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 10 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 7, 7 and 10 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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