Globe Life Inc. (GL)

Life and health insurer, agents not employees. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 59 of the 173 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Globe Life states 3,695 full-time, part-time and temporary employees in a life and supplemental health insurance business read whole at insurance carriers; its more than 17,000 independently contracted agents are not 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: 56% now, 68% at the end of 2027, 70% at the end of 2028, 71% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 71% desk work, 25% people work and 4% 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 29% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 63% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,695 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes a U.S. life and supplemental health insurer with campuses in Texas and states no count by country; recorded as 1 with a flag.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company had 3,695 full-time, part-time, and temporary employees, a 1% decrease over the prior year.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 3,695 full-time, part-time and temporary employees, down 1%; over 17,000 independently contracted insurance agents are not employees and not counted; no hourly, part-time or union counts stated.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Insurance Carriers, 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.

• UnitedHealth Group (UNH, 390,000 employees)46% now, 56% by 2028
• Elevance Health (ELV, 97,100 employees)51% now, 65% by 2028
• The Progressive Corporation (PGR, 70,000 employees)56% now, 70% by 2028
• Cigna Corporation (CI, 67,700 employees)51% now, 61% by 2028
• Humana Inc. (HUM, 67,060 employees)46% now, 56% by 2028
• Centene Corp. (CNC, 61,100 employees)56% now, 70% by 2028
• The Allstate Corporation (ALL, 53,000 employees)56% now, 70% by 2028
• MetLife, Inc. (MET, 46,000 employees)56% now, 70% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in three sentences: a risk factor on managing the responsible use of emerging technologies including AI, its technology modernization including the responsible and secure use of AI, and the compliance demands of AI risks and regulation.

• “General Risk Factors The failure to maintain effective information systems or manage responsible use of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations at the Company.”
• “This modernization includes the innovative, responsible, and secure use of artificial intelligence ("AI").”
• “As a result of increasingly complex AI risks, more frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks and the highly regulated nature of the insurance industry, we must continually implement new, and maintain existing, technology or adapt existing technology to protect against security and privacy incidents and to meet compliance requirements of new and proposed regulations.”

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 20241median 4
• Fiscal 20253median 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

• Under rule 8 the more than 17,000 independently contracted agents are not counted, as the filing counts them apart.
• The U.S. share of 1 rests on the filing's description of a U.S. insurer, not a stated count.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000320335-26-000090, 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.