Fossil Group, Inc. (FOSL)

Watch and accessories brand company, 71% abroad. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 3, 2026, filed March 12, 2026. Ranked 18 of the 199 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 4,500 employees, 3,200 abroad, designing and selling watches and accessories wholesale and through its stores with nothing counted by function, so the split is 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: 26% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 37% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 23% people work and 39% 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 61% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 25% becomes checking a model's work and 13% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,500 employees as of January 3, 2026 (stated). The filing states 3,200 of 4,500 employees in its international subsidiaries, leaving about 1,300 in the United States; the Americas are 41%, Europe 24% and Asia-Pacific 35%, with India 20%.

The filing: “As of January 3, 2026, our global workforce was approximately 4,500 employees, which includes 3,200 employees based in our international subsidiaries.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,500 employees, 3,200 in international subsidiaries; no union representation, with works councils in Europe; the headcount fell from 7,500 in 2021.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Ferguson plc (FERG, 35,000 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
• Arrow Electronics, Inc. (ARW, 22,230 employees)27% now, 43% by 2028
• WESCO International, Inc. (WCC, 21,000 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
• Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS, 15,700 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
• Avnet, Inc. (AVT, 15,040 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
• QXO, Inc. (QXO, 7,794 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
• Boise Cascade Company (BCC, 7,680 employees)21% now, 31% by 2028
• Watsco, Inc. (WSO, 7,050 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the uses of its cloud customer data platform and names generative AI among the tools threat actors use in attacks.

• “Customer Master Data Our master customer data is stored in a cloud native, industry standard design based on the Google Cloud Platform architecture, in order to better secure and improve the long-term performance and integration for future key marketing, analytics, artificial intelligence, and sales systems.”
• “In addition, as artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies, including generative AI models, develop rapidly, threat actors are using these technologies to create new sophisticated attack methods that are increasingly automated, targeted and coordinated and more difficult to defend against.”
• “Furthermore, as AI technologies, including generative AI models, develop rapidly, threat actors are using these technologies to create new sophisticated attack methods that are increasingly automated, targeted and coordinated and more difficult to defend against.”
• “We also leverage data analytics and automated tools, including AI-enabled capabilities, to support policy management, risk identification, and evaluation of control gaps.”

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 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 20241median 4
• Fiscal 20254median 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

• No count by function or kind of location; the split between wholesale and the company's stores is by description and loose.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000883569-26-000017, 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.