Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (JEF)

Investment bank with counted subsidiaries, 7,787 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending November 30, 2025, filed January 28, 2026. Ranked 89 of the 101 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An investment bank whose filing counts 5,990 of 7,787 employees in its securities businesses and 1,797 at four subsidiaries, so the securities pattern leads and the subsidiaries' people are split 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: 34% now, 58% at the end of 2027, 68% at the end of 2028, 71% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 71% desk work, 22% people work and 7% 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 29% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 60% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

7,787 employees as of November 30, 2025 (stated). Not stated as the United States: 50% in the Americas, 36% in Europe and the Middle East, 14% in Asia-Pacific.

The filing: “As of November 30, 2025, we had 7,787 employees globally across all of our consolidated subsidiaries within our Investment Banking and Capital Markets and Asset Management reportable segments.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 7,787 employees as of November 30, 2025 (7,822 a year earlier): 50% in the Americas, 36% in Europe and the Middle East, 14% in Asia-Pacific; 5,990 in investment banking, capital markets and alternative asset management; 1,797 at the Stratos, Tessellis, HomeFed and M Science subsidiaries (2,063 a year earlier); eight employee resource groups.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Morgan Stanley (MS, 83,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• State Street Corporation (STT, 52,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY, 48,100 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS, 47,400 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• S&P Global Inc. (SPGI, 44,500 employees)32% now, 70% by 2028
• The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW, 33,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• BlackRock, Inc. (BLK, 24,900 employees)35% now, 71% by 2028
• Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS, 23,800 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

16 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names new AI tools among the methods of cyber attackers, including deepfakes for impersonation, and says the development and use of artificial intelligence presents risks and challenges that could affect its business.

• “Cyber attacks can originate from a variety of sources, including foreign governments and third- parties affiliated with them, organized crime or terrorist organizations, and malicious individuals both outside and inside a targeted company, including through use of relatively new artificial intelligence ("AI") tools or methods that can be used to create deepfakes for impersonation or to enable a...”
• “Further, in light of the high volume of transactions we process, the large number of our clients, partners and counterparties, and the increasing sophistication of malicious actors that may employ increasingly sophisticated methods such as new artificial intelligence tools, a cyber attack, cybersecurity incident, or other information security breach could occur and persist for an extended perio...”
• “The development and use of artificial intelligence presents risks and challenges that could adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations.”
• “We, or our third-party service providers, may develop or incorporate AI technology in certain business operations, processes, products, or services.”
• “The development and use of AI presents a number of opportunities for us, as well as risks and challenges.”

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 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20242median 4
• Fiscal 202516median 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

• The U.S. share is not stated: the filing counts the Americas at 50%.
• The 1,797 at four consolidated subsidiaries are counted together, so their split among telecommunications, data and securities work is by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000096223-26-000009, 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.