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Honeywell International Inc. (HON)
Industrial conglomerate, split by segment revenue. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-17. Ranked 11 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 101,000 employees with 36,000 in the United States and nothing by segment, so the patterns follow segment revenue and the filing's descriptions (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, 36% at the end of 2027, 45% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 15% people work and 36% 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 49% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 42% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
101,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing states approximately 36,000 of 101,000 employees are in the United States.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 101,000 employees across 79 countries, ~36,000 of whom are in the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing | 45% | By revenue (c): Aerospace at 47% of segment revenue, the engines, avionics and aircraft parts the filing describes, with no count by segment. |
| Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing | 40% | By revenue (c): the automation segments at 45% of segment revenue, sensors, controls, scanners and building controls that the filing describes as industrial and building automation, with no count by segment. |
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 15% | By revenue (c): Energy and Sustainability Solutions at 8% of revenue, the catalysts and advanced materials the filing describes, weighted up for plant staffing, with no stated count. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 101,000 employees in 79 countries, about 36,000 in the United States, excluding the roughly 19,000 at the Sandia and Kansas City national security facilities it manages as a contract operator; the filing records workforce reductions of 3,486 positions in 2024 and 5,854 in 2023, mainly in its automation segments.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Aerospace Product and Parts 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.
- Boeing (BA, 182,000 employees)16% now, 43% by 2028
- RTX (RTX, 180,000 employees)16% now, 44% by 2028
- Lockheed Martin (LMT, 123,000 employees)16% now, 47% by 2028
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, 95,000 employees)16% now, 46% by 2028
- GE Aerospace (GE, 57,000 employees)16% now, 45% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
17 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 17 sentences: machine learning and AI algorithms inside its Honeywell Forge products, AI among the technology trends its growth depends on, and generative and agentic AI as a risk it aims to develop and use responsibly.
- “These products and services are combined with proprietary machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms in products and projects which are digitally enabled through our industry leading industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform, Honeywell Forge. 2025 Full-year revenue of $9,401 million 2025 Full-year revenue by business unit $1,171 million $1,132 million $6,165 million $933 million...”
- “Our future growth rate depends upon a number of factors, including our ability to (i) identify and evolve with emerging technological and broader industry trends, including technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning in our target end markets; (ii) develop and maintain competitive products; (iii) defend our market share against an ever-expanding number of competitors, incl...”
- “Emerging technology, such as generative and agentic artificial intelligence, is complex and rapidly evolving, and while we aim to develop and use artificial intelligence responsibly, we may ultimately be unsuccessful in identifying or resolving all problems, and the technologies that we develop or use may ultimately be flawed, which could harm our reputation and expose us to risks related to po...”
- “Furthermore, any integration of third-party artificial intelligence models with our products and solutions relies on certain safeguards implemented by the third-party developers of the models, and there can be no guarantee that those safeguards are adequate to protect against the risks associated with their deployment. 33 Honeywell International Inc.”
- “Furthermore, to the extent artificial intelligence capabilities continue to improve and are increasingly adopted, they may be used to identify vulnerabilities and craft increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, including the use of generative artificial intelligence to conduct more sophisticated social engineering attacks on the Company, suppliers, or customers.”
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 | 101,000 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 102,000 | 2025-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 95,000 | 2024-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 97,000 | 2023-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 99,000 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 103,000 | 2021-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 113,000 | 2020-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 114,000 | 2019-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 131,000 | 2018-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 131,000 | 2017-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 129,000 | 2016-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 127,000 | 2015-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 131,000 | 2014-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 132,000 | 2013-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 132,000 | 2012-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 130,000 | 2011-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 122,000 | 2010-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 128,000 | 2009-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 122,000 | 2008-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 118,000 | 2007-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 116,000 | 2006-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 109,000 | 2005-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 108,000 | 2004-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 108,000 | 2003-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 115,000 | 2002-03-20 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 125,000 | 2001-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 120,000 | 2000-02-23 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 70,400 | 1999-03-04 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 109,322 | 1998-02-26 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 109,322 | 1997-02-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 109,322 | 1996-02-27 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 109,322 | 1995-03-02 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by segment; the pattern shares rest on segment revenue and description (c).
- The 19,000 people at the two Department of Energy facilities the company manages are outside the count, as the filing excludes them.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000773840-26-000013, 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 Honeywell International Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 45% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Honeywell International Inc.'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 Honeywell International Inc. employ?
- 101,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 36% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Honeywell International Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 49% desk work, 15% people work and 36% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Honeywell International Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 17 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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