DexCom, Inc. (DXCM)
Glucose monitor maker, 11,100 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 72 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
36%
Employees, annual report
11,100
Leading staffing pattern
Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- End of 202731%
- End of 202836%
- End of 203038%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 57%
- Becomes checking a model's work 35%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
Dexcom states approximately 11,100 employees around the globe at December 31, 2025, 11,000 of them full-time, making continuous glucose monitoring systems with no count by kind of work or country, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at medical equipment by description (c).
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, 31% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 46% 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 57% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 35% 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
11,100 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the data service's geography table (non-U.S. 100%) is not usable.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we have approximately 11,100 employees around the globe, including 11,000 full-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing | 100% | The filing describes one business making continuous glucose monitoring systems, sensors and software, with no count by kind of work, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at medical equipment by description (c), as Abbott's devices and ResMed were read. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 11,100 employees, 11,000 of them full-time; remote and hybrid work for roles that allow it; the count rose from 9,500 in 2023 and 5,500 in 2020.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Abbott Laboratories (ABT, 115,000 employees)18% now, 35% by 2028
- Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX, 72,000 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
- Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX, 59,000 employees)19% now, 42% by 2028
- Stryker Corporation (SYK, 56,000 employees)19% now, 39% by 2028
- Baxter International Inc. (BAX, 37,500 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
- Align Technology, Inc. (ALGN, 20,290 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
- Solventum Corporation (SOLV, 20,000 employees)20% now, 43% by 2028
- STERIS plc (STE, 17,937 employees)22% now, 39% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
20 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it intends to apply predictive modeling and machine learning to CGM patient data for interactive insights, and names the EU AI Act's treatment of AI-enabled medical devices among its regulatory matters.
- “We intend to expand our efforts to accumulate CGM patient data and metrics and apply predictive modeling and machine learning to generate interactive CGM insights that can inform patient behavior.”
- “These changes could also reduce the number of AI-enabled medical devices classified as "high-risk" under the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689); Clarification of the interplay with the AI Act, providing that most requirements applicable to high-risk AI systems under the AI Act would not apply to AI-based medical devices, in order to avoid regulatory overlaps; Extension of CE Certificate vali...”
- “In addition to the proposed revision of the MDR, these include the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), the Data Act (Regulation (EU) 2023/2854), the Health Data Space Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2025/327), the Regulation on Health Technology Assessment (Regulation (EU) 2021/2282), the Battery Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542), and the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS 2) (Dir...”
- “In particular, the Digital Omnibus Package consists of two legislative proposals: A first proposal introducing amendments to several pieces of legislation, including Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), the ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC), the NIS2 Directive and other instruments relating to cybersecurity (DORA, CER, eIDAS), and the Data Act; and A second proposal aimed at amending the AI...”
- “Moreover, we are subject to various operational, compliance, and reputational risks associated with our adoption and utilization of AI technologies, including inaccurate or unpredictable outputs, such as errors or hallucinations, that may impair decision‑making, disrupt operations, or expose sensitive information.”
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 20212median 0
- Fiscal 20222median 0
- Fiscal 20232median 1
- Fiscal 202412median 4
- Fiscal 202520median 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 | 11,000 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 9,500 | 2024-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 7,500 | 2023-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 6,300 | 2022-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 5,500 | 2021-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 3,900 | 2020-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,800 | 2019-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 2,290 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 1,900 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 1,212 | 2016-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 838 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 646 | 2014-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 565 | 2013-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 502 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 405 | 2011-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 307 | 2010-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 242 | 2009-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 233 | 2008-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 224 | 2007-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 104 | 2006-02-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by kind of work: the one pattern is by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001093557-26-000027, 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 DexCom, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce DexCom, 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 DexCom, Inc. employ?
- 11,100 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up DexCom, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 46% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does DexCom, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 20 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 2, 2, 2, 12 and 20 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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