Evergy, Inc. (EVRG)
Electric utility, 4,691, 53% union, Kansas and Missouri. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 8 of the 32 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
23%
End of 2028
48%
Employees, annual report
4,691
Leading staffing pattern
Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now23%
- End of 202740%
- End of 202848%
- End of 203051%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 47%
- Becomes checking a model's work 43%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing counts 1,882 in generation, 1,468 in transmission and distribution and 1,341 in support, so the split is counted.
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: 23% now, 40% at the end of 2027, 48% at the end of 2028, 51% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 51% desk work, 17% 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 47% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 43% 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
4,691 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states that employees work primarily in Kansas and Missouri and describes no operations abroad (recorded as 1, flagged).
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Evergy Companies had 4,691 employees, including 2,479 represented by five local unions of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and one local union of the United Government Security Officers of America (UGSOA).”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution | 71% | The filing counts 1,882 generation employees and 1,468 transmission and distribution employees (a), the utility's operating work. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 29% | The filing counts 1,341 support employees (a), a stated support count under rule 6, as the other utilities' service company counts are read. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 4,691 employees: 1,882 in generation, 1,468 in transmission and distribution, 1,341 in support; 2,479 represented by IBEW locals and one UGSOA local under agreements expiring 2026 to 2028; primarily in Kansas and Missouri.
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, 42% by 2028
- Duke Energy Corporation (DUK, 26,441 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
- Exelon Corporation (EXC, 20,571 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
- American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP, 17,581 employees)24% now, 50% by 2028
- NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, 17,400 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
- NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG, 16,702 employees)19% now, 32% by 2028
- Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED, 15,407 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
13 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says much of its demand growth is driven by data centers and large loads supporting AI, and calls AI an emerging technology with the potential to affect its operations and customer interactions.
- “These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to: economic and weather conditions and any impact on sales, prices and costs; significant changes in the demand for electricity, including demand from data centers and other large load customers; changes in business strategy or operations, including with respect to the Evergy Companies' strategy to meet demand requiremen...”
- “Much of this demand is driven by interconnecting with and providing power to data centers and large load customers to serve an increasingly digital economy and to support artificial intelligence.”
- “Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging area of technology that has the potential to impact various aspects of the Evergy Companies' business operations and customer interactions.”
- “Generative AI technologies are still in their early stages of development and deployment.”
- “Ineffective or inadequate AI development or deployment practices by Evergy, its subsidiaries or third-party vendors could result in unintended consequences.”
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 202412median 4
- Fiscal 202513median 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 | 4,691 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 4,731 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,658 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,512 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 4,930 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 5,133 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 4,617 | 2020-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,832 | 2019-02-22 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes Kansas and Missouri operations only; it states no count by country.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001711269-26-000017, 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.
The report on Evergy, Inc., $29
This page as a document to keep, with what it does not show: the share within reach at every date on three paces and two reliabilities, a typical workforce of this shape at the stated headcount role by role and task by task (the industries' staffing, never the company's roster), where to start, what changes for the people and what they would learn, every sentence in the filing that names AI, the headcount by year, the companies read with the same leading pattern, the method and a citation line. To print or save as a PDF, open again in your browser for a year.
See the report, $29See the sample first: Walmart's report is free
Questions about this company
- How much of Evergy, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 23% now and 48% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Evergy, 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 Evergy, Inc. employ?
- 4,691 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Evergy, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution; by those patterns the work is about 51% desk work, 17% people work and 32% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Evergy, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 13 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 12 and 13 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 20, 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.
Embed these figures on your site
A small card with the share of working time within reach now and at the end of 2027, 2028 and 2030, the date and a link back. Free under CC BY 4.0; the card carries the credit.