Gates Industrial Corporation plc (GTES)

Belt and hose plants, 41% North America. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 164 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 13,000 full-time employees, 5,300 in North America, making belts and hoses in two segments that are both rubber products, 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: 15% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 25% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 25% desk work, 10% people work and 65% 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 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

13,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated alone; 5,300 of 13,000 are in North America (41%), 4,100 in EMEA, 2,900 in Greater China, East Asia and India, 700 in South America.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 13,000 full time employees worldwide. Approximately 5,300 of our employees are in North America, 4,100 in EMEA, 2,900 in Greater China and East Asia & India, and 700 in South America.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 13,000 full-time, down from 14,100; 5,300 North America, 4,100 EMEA, 2,900 Greater China, East Asia and India, 700 South America; about 1,400 managerial employees, 21% female; manufacturing incentive programs for production employees.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Rubber Product Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (GT, 63,000 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
• West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (WST, 10,800 employees)17% now, 30% by 2028
• Titan International, Inc. (TWI, 8,200 employees)16% now, 28% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

5 sentences in the filing name AI. Five sentences, risk factors: the company must respond to technological change such as AI and machine learning in its products, and competitors may adopt AI to develop products faster.

• “Our long-term operating results depend upon our ability to continually develop, introduce, and market new and innovative products, to modify existing products, to respond to technological change (such as artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning), and to customize certain products to meet customer requirements and evolving sustainability and industry standards.”
• “There are numerous risks inherent in this process, including the risks that we will be unable to anticipate the direction of technological change (including those related to the utilization of AI) or that we will be unable to develop and market new products and applications in a timely fashion to satisfy customer demands.”
• “Additionally, our competitors may adopt new technologies, such as AI and machine learning, to pursue new products and approaches more quickly, successfully and effectively than us.”
• “Increased global cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats, computer viruses and more sophisticated and targeted cyber-related attacks (such as the use of ransomware and social engineering, and the misuse or malicious use of AI), as well as cybersecurity failures resulting from human actions, catastrophic events, and technological errors, pose a risk to our systems (including third-party systems,...”
• “Additionally, the rapid evolution and increased availability of AI may intensify cybersecurity risks by making targeted attacks more sophisticated and cybersecurity incidents more difficult to detect, contain, and mitigate.”

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 20255median 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 segment: one pattern by description (c).
• The patterns stand for work in EMEA and Asia under rule 7; the U.S. share is not stated alone.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-007719, 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.