The Workforce AI Index · Industrials

GXO Logistics, Inc. (GXO)

Contract logistics, one pattern, mostly abroad. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-25. Ranked 16 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.

The filing states approximately 105,000 employees in 26 countries, mostly in the UK and Europe, and describes contract logistics only, so one warehousing pattern carries the workforce (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: 17% now, 20% at the end of 2027, 22% at the end of 2028, 22% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 22% desk work, 8% people work and 70% 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 78% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 12% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

105,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing states 20% of the workforce in North America, not a U.S. count; 52% is in the United Kingdom and 27% in the rest of Europe.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we operated in 26 countries with approximately 154,000 team members (comprising approximately 105,000 full-time and part-time employees and 49,000 temporary workers engaged through third-party agencies).”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 105,000 full-time and part-time employees plus 49,000 temporary workers through third-party agencies, not counted here; 52% in the United Kingdom, 27% in the rest of Europe, 20% in North America; the majority in Europe and the UK under collective bargaining agreements, none in North America.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

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

• Amazon (AMZN, 1,576,000 employees)19% now, 33% by 2028
• Coupang, Inc. (CPNG, 108,000 employees)17% now, 21% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

8 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 8 sentences: machine learning and AI used and expanded to run its operations and customer solutions, and the risks that use carries around accuracy, intellectual property, privacy and regulation.

• “This technology incorporates dynamic data science, predictive analytics and machine learning to aid decision-making.”
• “We use, and intend on continuing to expand our use of, machine learning and artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies to deliver our services and operate our business, including to optimize our operations, improve efficiency, and enhance customer solutions across our global logistics network.”
• “Our use of AI subjects us to risks related to accuracy, intellectual property infringement or misappropriation, data privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance, among others, and deficiencies or failures of our AI systems could subject us to competitive harm, regulatory action, penalties, legal liability, or reputational harm.”
• “Compliance with existing and future laws and regulations governing AI could be significant, may increase our operating expenses, require changes to our systems or processes, and could materially limit our ability to incorporate certain AI capabilities into our operations.”
• “In addition, our reliance on data obtained from internal systems, customers, vendors, cloud providers, and other third parties increases the risk that flawed, incomplete, biased, or compromised data could negatively impact AI-driven outputs and decision-making.”

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 49,000 temporary workers engaged through agencies are outside the count, as rule 8 requires; the filing's 154,000 team members includes them.
• The workforce is mostly in the United Kingdom and Europe; the pattern applies abroad because the work is the same in kind (rule 7).
• The filing counts no people by kind of work; the single pattern rests on its description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001852244-26-000007, 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.