Duke Energy Corporation (DUK)

Electric and gas utility, 26,441, all U.S.. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 3 of the 3 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states one total and the union count and nothing by business, so electric and gas take their shares by description (c), said so.

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: 20% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 41% 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 41% 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 52% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 38% 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

26,441 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing's operations are the Carolinas, Florida, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee, with no operations abroad; no count by country is stated.

The filing: “On December 31, 2025, Duke Energy had a total of 26,441 full-time, part-time and temporary employees, the majority of which were full-time employees.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 26,441 full-time, part-time and temporary employees, the majority full-time; 5,027 represented by labor unions; about 23.2% women and 21.3% people of color; eleven employee resource groups with more than 7,000 participants; a generative AI productivity tool deployed to about 10,000 employees.

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, 41% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

19 sentences in the filing name AI. Nineteen sentences: a personal productivity generative AI tool deployed to about 10,000 employees with agentic AI tools under development, AI among the forward-looking factors and the glossary's terms, and AI used to facilitate cyber threats.

• “These factors include, but are not limited to: ◦ The ability to implement our business strategy, including meeting forecasted load growth demand, grid and fleet modernization objectives, and reducing carbon emissions, while balancing customer reliability and keeping costs as low as possible for our customers; ◦ State, federal and foreign legislative and regulatory initiatives, including costs o...”
• “GLOSSARY OF TERMS Glossary of Terms The following terms or acronyms used in this Form 10-K are defined below: Term or Acronym Definition 2015 CCR Rule A 2015 EPA rule establishing national regulations to provide a comprehensive set of requirements for the management and disposal of CCR from coal-fired power plants 2024 CCR Rule The EPA's Legacy CCR Surface Impoundments rule issued in April 2024...”
• “Furthermore, AI, including generative AI, may be used to facilitate or perpetrate these cybersecurity threats.”
• “Duke Energy's use of generative AI (and use by their vendors and agents) may subject them to data privacy, legal, regulatory and security risks.”
• “This involves significant development and implementation costs to keep pace with changing technologies, including AI, and customer demand.”

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 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20243median 4
• Fiscal 202519median 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 U.S. share rests on the filing's description of its service territories, not a stated count by country.
• No count by business: shares by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001326160-26-000014, 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.