Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW)

Industrial products, 43,000 in seven segments, 37% U.S.. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 12 of the 47 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states the total and the U.S. count but nothing by segment, so the five patterns follow segment revenue (c) with the smaller segments folded together, said so.

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, 31% at the end of 2027, 37% at the end of 2028, 40% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 40% desk work, 16% people work and 44% 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 60% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 32% 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

43,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). About 16,000 of 43,000 in the United States.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company employed approximately 43,000 people, with approximately 16,000 people located in the United States and the remainder in multiple other countries where the Company's businesses operate.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 43,000 people, about 16,000 in the United States; less than three percent of U.S. employees represented by a union; decentralized divisions run with autonomy.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 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.

• Caterpillar Inc. (CAT, 118,000 employees)18% now, 37% by 2028
• Deere & Company (DE, 73,100 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
• Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH, 59,850 employees)17% now, 38% by 2028
• Carrier Global Corporation (CARR, 47,000 employees)18% now, 36% by 2028
• Trane Technologies plc (TT, 44,000 employees)18% now, 33% by 2028
• Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT, 36,500 employees)18% now, 36% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

4 sentences in the filing name AI. Four sentences: AI and machine learning among the technological changes whose slow adoption could reduce revenues, AI used by threat actors, and AI laws among those whose violation could bring penalties.

• “Difficulties or delays in research, development, production or commercialization of new products and services or in the adoption of technological change, such as the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, may reduce future revenues and adversely affect the Company's competitive position.”
• “The risk and severity of cybersecurity attacks could increase as artificial intelligence is used by threat actors to identify vulnerabilities and conduct increasingly sophisticated attacks.”
• “The Company may incur fines or penalties, damage to its reputation or other adverse consequences if its employees, agents or business partners violate anti-bribery, competition, export and import, trade sanctions, data privacy, environmental, artificial intelligence, human rights or other laws.”
• “The Company is subject to complex U.S., foreign and other local laws and regulations that are applicable to its operations, such as anti-bribery and anti-corruption, competition, export and import, trade sanctions, data privacy, environmental, the use of artificial intelligence in our business and in our products and services, and human rights laws.”

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 20244median 4
• Fiscal 20254median 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.

Limits of this reading

• Seven segments and no count by segment: the shares follow segment revenue (c), folded to five patterns under rule 5 (welding, specialty and construction products into machinery).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000049826-26-000008, 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.