ESCO Technologies Inc. (ESE)

Aerospace components, utility test equipment, RF shielding. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed December 1, 2025. Ranked 179 of the 238 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An industrial technology company with 3,425 employees across aerospace and defense components, utility diagnostic instruments and RF test systems, split by description.

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: 35% now, 47% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 52% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 52% desk work, 16% people work and 32% 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 46% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 48% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,425 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). Stated for the full-time employees: 28% of the 3,359 were located in 16 offices outside the U.S.A., so 72% in the United States.

The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we employed 3,425 persons, including 3,359 full time employees, 28% of whom were located in 16 offices outside the U.S.A.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 3,425 persons including 3,359 full-time; 28% of full-time employees in 16 offices outside the U.S.A.; average tenure 9 years, one third with 10 or more years.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments 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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Medtronic plc (MDT, 95,000 employees)33% now, 46% by 2028
• Emerson Electric Co. (EMR, 71,000 employees)36% now, 51% by 2028
• Danaher Corporation (DHR, 60,000 employees)34% now, 48% by 2028
• GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC, 54,000 employees)37% now, 53% by 2028
• L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX, 45,000 employees)35% now, 51% by 2028
• Rockwell Automation, Inc. (ROK, 26,000 employees)42% now, 61% by 2028
• Garmin Ltd. (GRMN, 23,000 employees)36% now, 53% by 2028
• AMETEK, Inc. (AME, 22,500 employees)32% now, 45% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

0 sentences in the filing name AI. No sentence names artificial intelligence.

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 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20250median 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 segment split is by description from revenue; the filing counts no employees by segment.
• The U.S. share is stated for the full-time employees, 98% of the total.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-25-117276, 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.