Dole plc (DOLE)
Fresh fruit grower and produce distributor. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 2, 2026. Ranked 27 of the 31 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
13%
End of 2028
19%
Employees, annual report
32,027
Leading staffing pattern
Support Activities for Crop Production
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now13%
- End of 202717%
- End of 202819%
- End of 203019%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 81%
- Becomes checking a model's work 12%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states 32,027 average employees by segment, 19,526 in Fresh Fruit and 12,501 in Diversified Fresh Produce, so the two counts give the patterns their shares (a), with farm work at the nearest pattern the site has.
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: 13% now, 17% at the end of 2027, 19% at the end of 2028, 19% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 19% desk work, 17% people work and 64% 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 81% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 12% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
32,027 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts employees by segment, not by country; the United States is 38% of revenue.
The filing: “The following table describes our average employees by reportable segment, excluding the discontinued Fresh Vegetables division, for the years ended December 31, 2025, December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023: Fresh Fruit 19,526; Diversified Fresh Produce - EMEA 7,758; Diversified Fresh Produce - Americas & ROW 4,743; Total 32,027.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Support Activities for Crop Production | 61% | Fresh Fruit, 19,526 average employees (a), growing, packing and shipping bananas and pineapples from farms mostly in Latin America; farms are outside the BLS survey, so the nearest pattern, support activities for crop production (NAICS 1151), applied abroad under rule 7. |
| Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods (4244 and 4248 only) | 39% | Diversified Fresh Produce in EMEA (7,758) and the Americas and rest of world (4,743), average employees (a), sourcing, ripening and distributing fresh produce, grocery and produce wholesaling (NAICS 4244). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Average employees for 2025 by segment: Fresh Fruit 19,526, Diversified Fresh Produce EMEA 7,758, Americas and rest of world 4,743, 32,027 in all; approximately 25% of full-time employees work under collective bargaining agreements.
What the filing says about AI
4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in its cybersecurity risk factors and says it is evaluating AI solutions to assist its operations.
- “The cyber threat landscape is growing increasingly complex and rapidly evolving, particularly in light of growing geopolitical tensions and the increasing use of artificial intelligence ("AI").”
- “In addition, privacy and security risks can rise from the use of AI.”
- “We are evaluating AI solutions to assist our operations.”
- “In addition, AI and similar technologies may be integrated into some of our business processes.”
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 | 32,027 | 2026-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 35,371 | 2025-03-11 | 20-F |
| 2023-12-31 | 34,078 | 2024-03-28 | 20-F |
| 2022-12-31 | 37,422 | 2023-03-22 | 20-F |
| 2021-12-31 | 38,500 | 2022-03-22 | 20-F |
Limits of this reading
- Farm work is read at support activities for crop production: farms are outside the BLS survey, so the site has no farming pattern.
- The headcount is the filing's average for the year by segment, counts (a); the collector found no count because the figures are in a table.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001857475-26-000028, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Dole plc's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 13% now and 19% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Dole plc'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 Dole plc employ?
- 32,027 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Dole plc's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Support Activities for Crop Production; by those patterns the work is about 19% desk work, 17% people work and 64% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Dole plc's annual report say about AI?
- 4 sentences in the filing name AI. 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 2, 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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