Henry Schein, Inc. (HSIC)
Dental and medical distributor, 25,000, 48% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 14 of the 43 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
27%
End of 2028
51%
Employees, annual report
25,000
Leading staffing pattern
Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now27%
- End of 202744%
- End of 202851%
- End of 203053%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 46%
- Becomes checking a model's work 41%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
A health care distributor whose filing states its total and its U.S. share, with distribution, manufactured specialty products and software described but not counted, so the wholesale pattern leads by description.
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: 27% now, 44% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 53% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 54% desk work, 25% people work and 22% 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 46% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 41% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
25,000 employees as of December 27, 2025 (stated). Approximately 48% of the workforce based in the United States and 52% outside it, as the filing states (about 13,000 outside).
The filing: “We are headquartered in Melville, New York and employ more than 25,000 people.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers | 80% | By description (c): health care distribution of dental, medical and animal health products is 96% of revenue in the latest segment figures, and the filing describes sales, distribution and customer service for office-based practitioners, so most of the workforce is read at professional and commercial equipment and supplies wholesale. |
| Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing | 12% | By description (c): the filing's specialty products, dental implants, orthodontics and endodontics made in its own plants, are read at medical equipment and supplies manufacturing at about a tenth, since no plant headcount is stated. |
| Software Publishers | 8% | By description (c): the technology business, practice management, revenue cycle and clinical software for dental and medical practices (4% of revenue), is read at software publishers. |
What the filing says about the workforce: More than 25,000 employees, about 48% in the United States and about 13,000 (52%) outside it, with operations or affiliates in 34 countries; about 14% under collective bargaining agreements; employees called Team Schein Members.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Medline Inc. (MDLN, 45,000 employees)24% now, 45% by 2028
- TD Synnex Corp (SNX, 24,000 employees)28% now, 51% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
25 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 25 times, as a kind of software it sells to dental customers and as a subject of evolving regulation of devices, software and data.
- “Table of Contents Index to Financial Statements 9 Global Technology We sell practice management, business analytics, revenue cycle management, clinical workflow, artificial intelligence, patient engagement and patient demand creation software solutions to our dental customers.”
- “Regulated Software; Electronic Health Records; Privacy The FDA has become increasingly active in addressing the regulation of computer software and digital health products intended for use in health care settings, including, for example, most recently, with respect to artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled medical devices, and the cybersecurity of medical devices.”
- “Laws and regulations relating to privacy and data protection are continually evolving and subject to potentially differing interpretations, including those relating to artificial intelligence, the proliferation of which may result in additional regulation.”
- “Our products and services utilize new technologies, such as AI.”
- “The regulatory landscape for AI is changing rapidly, with both domestic and international activity.”
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 20249median 4
- Fiscal 202525median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | 25,000 | 2026-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-28 | 25,000 | 2025-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-30 | 25,000 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 22,000 | 2023-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-25 | 21,600 | 2022-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-26 | 19,000 | 2021-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-28 | 19,000 | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-29 | 18,000 | 2019-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-02-21 | 22,000 | 2018-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 21,000 | 2017-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-26 | 19,000 | 2016-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-27 | 17,500 | 2015-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-28 | 16,000 | 2014-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-29 | 15,000 | 2013-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 15,000 | 2012-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-25 | 13,500 | 2011-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-26 | 12,500 | 2010-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-27 | 12,500 | 2009-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-29 | 12,000 | 2008-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-30 | 11,000 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 11,000 | 2006-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-25 | 9,600 | 2005-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-27 | 7,900 | 2004-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-28 | 6,900 | 2003-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-29 | 870 | 2002-03-19 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-30 | 870 | 2001-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-25 | 8 | 2000-03-24 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-26 | not read | 1999-03-16 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-28 | not read | 1997-03-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Pattern shares rest on descriptions (c); the latest segment revenue the data gives is for fiscal 2018.
- The headcount is stated as more than 25,000.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001000228-26-000013, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Henry Schein, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 27% now and 51% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Henry Schein, 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 Henry Schein, Inc. employ?
- 25,000 as of December 27, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025 states. About 48% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Henry Schein, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers; by those patterns the work is about 54% desk work, 25% people work and 22% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Henry Schein, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 25 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 9 and 25 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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