IPG Photonics Corporation (IPGP)
Fiber laser maker, 4,840, 74% in manufacturing. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 23, 2026. Ranked 136 of the 174 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
18%
End of 2028
45%
Employees, annual report
4,840
Leading staffing pattern
Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now18%
- End of 202736%
- End of 202845%
- End of 203050%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 47%
- Becomes checking a model's work 42%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
The filing counts its employees by function, 3,590 in manufacturing and service and 420 in general and administrative, so the administrative share is counted and the rest is one laser pattern.
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: 18% now, 36% at the end of 2027, 45% at the end of 2028, 50% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 50% desk work, 15% people work and 35% 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 47% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 42% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,840 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states approximately 2,070 of 4,840 employees in the United States and 1,650 in Germany.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 4,840 full-time employees, including 440 in research and development, 3,590 in manufacturing and service operations, 390 in sales and marketing, and 420 in general and administrative functions.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 91% | The filing counts 3,590 in manufacturing and service operations, 440 in research and development and 390 in sales and marketing (a), fiber lasers and laser systems read at electronic components as Coherent's lasers are; service is counted with manufacturing and stays inside. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 9% | The filing counts 420 employees in general and administrative functions (a), a stated administrative count under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,840 full-time employees: 440 in research and development, 3,590 in manufacturing and service, 390 in sales and marketing, 420 in general and administrative; 74% in manufacturing operations; 2,070 in the United States and 1,650 in Germany; no collective bargaining at principal plants.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component 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.
- Amphenol Corporation (APH, 170,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Flex Ltd. (FLEX, 149,686 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
- Jabil Inc. (JBL, 135,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
- TE Connectivity plc (TEL, 93,000 employees)18% now, 44% by 2028
- Intel Corp. (INTC, 85,100 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Micron Technology, Inc. (MU, 53,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM, 52,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Coherent, Inc. (COHR, 51,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
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 20250median 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 | 4,840 | 2026-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 4,740 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,180 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,230 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 6,580 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 6,060 | 2021-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 5,960 | 2020-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 6,220 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 5,030 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 4,230 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,740 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,030 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,800 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,400 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,137 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 1,760 | 2011-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 1,430 | 2010-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 1,420 | 2009-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 1,300 | 2008-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 1,040 | 2007-03-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The research and development and sales counts are functions inside the electronic components pattern; the service work is counted with manufacturing and not read apart.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001111928-26-000040, 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 IPG Photonics Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 45% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce IPG Photonics Corporation'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 IPG Photonics Corporation employ?
- 4,840 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 43% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up IPG Photonics Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 50% desk work, 15% people work and 35% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does IPG Photonics Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 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 20, 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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