Expedia Group, Inc. (EXPE)
Online travel agency, half in technology roles. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 3 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
36%
End of 2028
57%
Employees, annual report
16,000
Leading staffing pattern
Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now36%
- End of 202752%
- End of 202857%
- End of 203058%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 40%
- Becomes checking a model's work 47%
- Handed over with lighter checks 11%
The filing states 16,000 employees across nearly 50 countries in one business, online travel booking, with half in technology roles, so one pattern carries the workforce.
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: 36% now, 52% at the end of 2027, 57% at the end of 2028, 58% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 58% desk work, 32% people work and 10% 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 40% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 47% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
16,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the employees are across nearly 50 countries with the headquarters in Seattle, and the data service's geography table (United States 100%) fails the checks.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we have a team of approximately 16,000 employees across nearly 50 countries focused on using our extensive data and technology to create amazing travel experiences.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services | 100% | The filing describes one business, online travel booking (lodging 97% of revenue, air 3%), run by a team of which about one half work in technology roles, a skill count recorded in the notes rather than a split (rule 6), so travel arrangement and reservation services carries the whole workforce by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About one half of the 16,000 work in technology roles; nearly 50 countries; no hourly, part-time or union figure stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Global Business Travel Group, Inc. (GBTG, 27,000 employees)34% now, 59% by 2028
- Booking Holdings Inc. (BKNG, 24,300 employees)36% now, 57% by 2028
- Airbnb, Inc. (ABNB, 8,200 employees)36% now, 57% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
23 sentences in the filing name AI. Twenty-three sentences: the company says it used AI in 2025 to amplify its priorities, integrating it into products and technology, raising developer productivity and speeding resolution in customer service, and expects products driven by machine learning and AI to drive retention and direct business.
- “With greatly improved product driven by the latest in machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities, we believe we will continue to drive greater retention, repeat and direct business.”
- “During 2025, we have used artificial intelligence ("AI") to amplify our strategic priorities.”
- “We have leveraged AI by integrating it into our products and technology as well as to drive efficiencies from enhancing developer productivity and improving resolution speed in our customer service teams.”
- “In addition, we have continued to invest in our customer service platform technology, which leverages technology and artificial intelligence to provide our customers with online customer service options and self-service capabilities.”
- “Our competition, which is strong and increasing, includes online and offline travel companies that target leisure and corporate travelers, including travel agencies, tour operators, travel supplier direct websites and their call centers, consolidators and wholesalers of travel products and services, large online companies including search, social media, marketplace, generative artificial intell...”
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 202312median 1
- Fiscal 202416median 4
- Fiscal 202523median 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 | 16,000 | 2026-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 16,500 | 2025-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 17,100 | 2024-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 16,500 | 2023-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 14,800 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 19,100 | 2021-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 25,400 | 2020-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 24,500 | 2019-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 22,615 | 2018-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 20,075 | 2017-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 18,730 | 2016-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 18,210 | 2015-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 14,570 | 2014-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 12,330 | 2013-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 9,480 | 2012-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 8,900 | 2011-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 7,960 | 2010-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 8,050 | 2009-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 7,150 | 2008-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 6,600 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 6,500 | 2006-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The technology half of the workforce is recorded as a skill count, not a pattern split; one pattern by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated; the data service's geography table was not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001324424-26-000008, 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 Expedia Group, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 36% now and 57% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Expedia Group, 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 Expedia Group, Inc. employ?
- 16,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Expedia Group, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services; by those patterns the work is about 58% desk work, 32% people work and 10% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Expedia Group, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 23 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 2, 2, 12, 16 and 23 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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