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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE)
Enterprise computing maker, split by segment revenue. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-10-31, filed 2025-12-18. Ranked 17 of the 24 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 67,000 employees and nothing by segment, so the patterns follow segment revenue, servers and systems, networking and services (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: 21% now, 45% at the end of 2027, 57% at the end of 2028, 63% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 63% desk work, 19% people work and 18% 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 37% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 50% 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
67,000 employees as of 2025-10-31 (stated). The filing gives no count by country; the Americas are 46% of revenue.
The filing: “Our company strives to be an engine of innovation, and our approximately 67,000 employees as of October 31, 2025, are proud of the ways our technology enables our customers to achieve meaningful outcomes.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing | 65% | By revenue (c): the Server segment at 52% and Hybrid Cloud at 17% of revenue, servers, storage and systems, the computer hardware its listing names, with no count by segment. |
| Communications Equipment Manufacturing | 20% | By revenue (c): Networking at 20% of revenue, including the Juniper business the filing is integrating, with no stated count. |
| Computer Systems Design and Related Services | 15% | By description (c): the services and financing delivered around its hardware, which the filing describes without a count. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 67,000 employees, up from 61,000 with the Juniper acquisition; over 721,000 courses completed in the year; about 94% took part in its performance conversation program.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computer and Peripheral Equipment 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.
- Apple (AAPL, 166,000 employees)24% now, 53% by 2028
- Dell Technologies Inc. (DELL, 97,000 employees)21% now, 58% by 2028
- HP Inc. (HPQ, 55,000 employees)20% now, 56% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
118 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 118 sentences: AI among the megatrends shaping enterprise technology demand, accelerating AI implementation among its customers, and AI across its strategy and risks.
- “All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to any statements related to any anticipated financial or operational benefits associated with the segment realignment that became effective as of the beginning of the first quarter of fiscal 2026; any statements regarding the ongoing integration of J...”
- “Our Strategy Over the last several years, HPE has observed megatrends around networking, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence ("AI") emerging to shape customer expectations for enterprise technology.”
- “The megatrends are ushering in long-lasting changes to how enterprises are consuming technology and setting up their IT infrastructures, including accelerating implementation of AI and hybrid multi-cloud adoption.”
- “AI has emerged as a powerful tool to more intelligently and quickly deliver meaningful business insights and opportunities.”
- “As such, customers across industry verticals are interested in incorporating AI into their operations and unifying all of their applications and data with a consistent cloud experience, both of which require a secure, reliable, and intelligent network infrastructure.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 67,000 | 2025-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-10-31 | 61,000 | 2024-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-31 | 62,000 | 2023-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-31 | 60,200 | 2022-12-08 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-31 | 60,400 | 2021-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2020-10-31 | 59,400 | 2020-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2019-10-31 | 61,600 | 2019-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-10-31 | 60,000 | 2018-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2017-10-31 | 66,000 | 2017-12-15 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-31 | 195,000 | 2016-12-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-10-31 | 240,000 | 2015-12-17 | 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 0001645590-25-000130, 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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 57% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company employ?
- 67,000 as of October 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 63% desk work, 19% people work and 18% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company's annual report say about AI?
- 118 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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