FactSet Research Systems Inc. (FDS)

Financial data platform, 69% in Asia-Pacific. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025, filed October 22, 2025. Ranked 85 of the 88 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 12,800 employees by region and function, 69% in Asia Pacific and 47% in content operations, building a financial data platform, so the data 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: 29% now, 56% at the end of 2027, 69% at the end of 2028, 74% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 74% desk work, 22% people work and 5% 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 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 57% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

12,800 employees as of August 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated alone; 2,510 of 12,800 are in the Americas (20%), 8,854 in Asia Pacific, 1,436 in EMEA, with the centers of excellence in India and the Philippines holding about 68%.

The filing: “As of August 31, 2025, we had 35 offices in 19 countries with 12,800 employees. Of our total employees, 8,854 (69%) were located in Asia Pacific, 2,510 (20%) in the Americas and 1,436 (11%) in EMEA.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 8,854 Asia Pacific, 2,510 Americas, 1,436 EMEA; 47% content operations, 28% technology and product development, 21% sales and client solutions, 4% corporate support; 434 under works councils in France and Germany and 25 under collective bargaining in the U.S.; 94% took learning programs, 339,000 hours.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related 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.

• Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS, 44,000 employees)29% now, 69% by 2028
• SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (SSNC, 28,800 employees)28% now, 69% by 2028
• Moody's Corporation (MCO, 16,076 employees)31% now, 69% by 2028
• Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR, 16,000 employees)34% now, 66% by 2028
• Equinix, Inc. (EQIX, 13,716 employees)28% now, 67% by 2028
• Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE, 12,844 employees)32% now, 70% by 2028
• Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM, 11,000 employees)28% now, 68% by 2028
• Morningstar, Inc. (MORN, 10,973 employees)30% now, 69% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

42 sentences in the filing name AI. Forty-two sentences: the company says AI is embedded across its platform to enhance data discovery and automate workflows, and that in fiscal 2025 employees advanced skills in prompt engineering, coding and vector databases to embed AI in products and internal work.

• “Our platform delivers expansive data, sophisticated analytics, and flexible, artificial intelligence ("AI")-powered technologies used by global financial professionals to power their critical investment workflows.”
• “AI is embedded across these offerings to enhance data discovery, automate routine workflows and improve the speed and accuracy of client insights.”
• “Note 17, Segment Information, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on our segments. 5 Table of Contents Firm Types Institutional Buyside Institutional Buyside focuses on multi-asset class solutions, including AI-powered workflows and insights, for global asset managers, asset owners and hedge fund professionals ac...”
• “We also deliver firm type tailored solutions for client relationship management ("CRM") and AI-powered solutions to bring automation to time-consuming and manual aspects of our clients' daily workflows.”
• “We also offer AI-powered prospecting, monitoring and proposal generation tools that enable financial advisors to grow and enhance existing client relationships.”

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 202310median 1
• Fiscal 202421median 4
• Fiscal 202542median 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 patterns stand for work in India and the Philippines under rule 7; the U.S. share is not stated alone.
• The corporate support share (4%) is read at management of companies under rule 6.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-25-045769, 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.