Equitable Holdings, Inc. (EQH)

Life insurer with AllianceBernstein counted, 8,000 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 65 of the 101 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A financial group whose filing counts 4,500 of 8,000 employees at its asset manager, so the securities pattern leads and the insurer takes the stated remainder.

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: 37% now, 60% at the end of 2027, 70% at the end of 2028, 72% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 72% desk work, 24% 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 27% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 62% 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

8,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: the filing counts no employees by country.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 8,000 full-time employees. Of these, approximately 4,500 were employed full-time by AB.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 8,000 full-time employees as of December 31, 2025, about 4,500 of them at AB; a fully agile workforce under its NWOW model; an 85% Corporate Engagement Index score with nearly 70% response.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Morgan Stanley (MS, 83,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• State Street Corporation (STT, 52,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY, 48,100 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS, 47,400 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• S&P Global Inc. (SPGI, 44,500 employees)32% now, 70% by 2028
• The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW, 33,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• BlackRock, Inc. (BLK, 24,900 employees)35% now, 71% by 2028
• Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS, 23,800 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

18 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing recounts the NAIC's focus on big data techniques such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and automated decision-making, and the Model Bulletin on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers adopted by about half of the states.

• “Innovation and Technology As a result of increased innovation and technology, the NAIC and insurance regulators are focused on the use of "big data" techniques, such as the use of artificial intelligence ("AI"), machine learning and automated decision-making.”
• “In December 2023, the NAIC's Innovation, Cybersecurity and Technology (H) Committee (the "(H) Committee") adopted the Model Bulletin on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers (the "AI Bulletin").”
• “Approximately half of states have adopted the AI Bulletin, which outlines regulators' expectations as to how insurers should govern the development, acquisition and use of AI technologies, as well as the types of information that regulators may request during an investigation or examination of an insurer in regard to AI systems.”
• “In addition, the NAIC's Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (H) Working Group is evaluating AI-use outcomes and how well the current regulatory framework addresses potential harms from the use of AI.”
• “The goal is to develop an overall AI regulatory framework that could be incorporated into an NAIC regulatory handbook.”

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 202312median 1
• Fiscal 202419median 4
• Fiscal 202518median 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 is not stated.
• The count is of full-time employees as the filing states it.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001333986-26-000012, 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.