Herc Holdings Inc. (HRI)
Equipment rental branches, 9,600 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 22 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
24%
End of 2028
34%
Employees, annual report
9,600
Leading staffing pattern
Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now24%
- End of 202732%
- End of 202834%
- End of 203034%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 65%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 11%
Herc states approximately 9,600 employees at December 31, 2025, grown by about 2,500 with the H&E acquisition, some under union contracts and Canadian regulations, renting equipment from its branches with no count by kind of work, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at the rental group that holds commercial equipment rental by description (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: 24% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 34% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 34% desk work, 20% people work and 46% 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 65% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% 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
9,600 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; revenue is 94% U.S. with Canadian branches.
The filing: “Human Capital Management As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 9,600 people, some of whom are covered by a variety of union contracts and, in the case of Canadian employees, have governmental regulations affecting, among other things, compensation, job retention rights and pensions.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only) | 100% | The filing describes equipment rental branches with mechanics, counter and shop operations and sales, equipment rental at 81% of revenue, and counts no employees by kind of work, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at the rental group that holds commercial equipment rental by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Some employees covered by union contracts, without a share; the H&E acquisition added about 160 locations and over 2,500 team members; about 486,000 hours of training in 2025; the count rose from 7,600 a year earlier.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- United Rentals, Inc. (URI, 28,500 employees)24% now, 34% by 2028
- Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc (SUNB, 26,016 employees)24% now, 34% by 2028
- Upbound Group, Inc. (UPBD, 12,050 employees)24% now, 35% by 2028
- EquipmentShare.com Inc. (EQPT, 8,206 employees)24% now, 34% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The one sentence names the increased use of AI among evolving cyber threats that are difficult to anticipate and defend against.
- “Cyber threats are increasing in number and sophistication, continually evolving, including with the increased use of artificial intelligence, making it difficult for us to anticipate and defend against such threats and vulnerabilities that can persist undetected over extended periods of time.”
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 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 9,600 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 7,600 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 7,200 | 2024-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,600 | 2023-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,600 | 2022-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,800 | 2021-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 5,100 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,900 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,900 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 4,800 | 2017-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 30,000 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 33,000 | 2015-07-16 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 30,400 | 2014-03-19 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 30,200 | 2013-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 23,900 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 22,900 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 23,050 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 24,900 | 2009-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 29,350 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 31,500 | 2007-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by kind of work: the one pattern is by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001364479-26-000050, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Herc Holdings Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 24% now and 34% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Herc Holdings 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 Herc Holdings Inc. employ?
- 9,600 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Herc Holdings Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only); by those patterns the work is about 34% desk work, 20% people work and 46% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Herc Holdings Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 1 sentences, year by year. 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 19, 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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