The Workforce AI Index · Consumer Cyclical
Genuine Parts Company (GPC)
Parts distributor, split by segment revenue. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-20. Ranked 11 of the 39 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states more than 65,000 people in 17 countries and nothing by segment, so the patterns follow segment revenue, industrial and automotive distribution with the company stores (c).
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: 22% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 18% people work and 48% 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 66% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 22% 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
65,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing states 17 countries and gives no count by country; the United States is 65% of revenue.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed more than 65,000 people worldwide and operated within 17 countries.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers | 45% | By revenue (c): the Industrial Parts segment at 47% of revenue, the Motion distribution business of bearings, power transmission and industrial supplies, with no count by segment. |
| Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers | 30% | By revenue (c): the distribution side of the Automotive Parts segment at 53% of revenue, the NAPA wholesale network its SIC code names, with no stated count. |
| Automotive Parts, Accessories, and Tire Retailers | 25% | By description (c): the company-owned NAPA stores inside the Automotive Parts segment, retail counters the filing describes without a count. |
What the filing says about the workforce: More than 65,000 people in 17 countries, up from 63,000; a global engagement survey; a high-potential program across business units.
What the filing says about AI
5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 5 sentences, as competition and risk: competitors using data analytics and AI, and AI tools used in cyber attacks.
- “We provide our customers and deliver value through: Onsite inventory management and vendor managed inventory ("VMI") 5 Table of Contents Asset repair and tracking, including radio frequency identification ("RFID") asset management of our customers' inventories Specialized repair services for gearboxes, fluid power systems, pumps, drive shafts, electrical panels, and hoses and gaskets Advanced a...”
- “Consolidation among our competitors could further enhance their financial position, provide them with the ability to offer more competitive prices to customers for whom we compete, take advantage of acquisitions and other opportunities more readily, rapidly scale and invest in their businesses, more successfully utilize developing technology, including data analytics, artificial intelligence, a...”
- “Additionally, the techniques and sophistication used to conduct cyber-attacks and breaches of IT systems change frequently, including as a result of the deployment of evolving artificial intelligence tools and machine learning tools used to identify vulnerabilities and create more effective phishing attempts, and have the potential to not be recognized until such attacks are launched or have be...”
- “Changes in automotive technology (including the adoption of electric vehicles or the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning) and compliance with any new or more stringent laws or regulations, or stricter interpretations of existing laws, could require additional compliance costs and other expenditures by us or our suppliers all of which could adversely impact the demand for our pro...”
- “Additionally, we are subject to an increasing number of laws in the various jurisdictions in which we operate as well as governmental regulations relating to taxes, environmental protection, product quality standards, cybersecurity, machine learning, artificial intelligence, data privacy, building and zoning requirements, and employment law matters.”
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 | 65,000 | 2026-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 63,000 | 2025-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 60,000 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 58,000 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 52,000 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 50,000 | 2021-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 55,000 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 50,000 | 2019-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 48,000 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 40,000 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 39,600 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 39,000 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 37,500 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 31,900 | 2013-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 29,800 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 29,500 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 29,000 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 30,300 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 32,000 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 32,000 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 31,700 | 2006-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 31,200 | 2005-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 30,800 | 2004-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 30,700 | 2003-03-21 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 31,000 | 2002-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 33,000 | 2001-03-12 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 33,000 | 2000-03-10 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 32,000 | 1999-03-10 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 24,500 | 1998-03-10 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 24,200 | 1997-03-10 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 22,500 | 1996-03-19 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 21,285 | 1995-03-22 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 20,575 | 1994-03-24 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by segment or by country; the pattern shares rest on segment revenue and description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000040987-26-000003, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Genuine Parts Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 32% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Genuine Parts Company'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 Genuine Parts Company employ?
- 65,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Genuine Parts Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers; by those patterns the work is about 33% desk work, 18% people work and 48% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Genuine Parts Company's annual report say about AI?
- 5 sentences in the filing name AI. 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 1, 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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