Kelly Services, Inc. (KELYA)

Staffing company, placed workers not counted. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 28, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 162 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Kelly Services states about 3,600 full-time internal staff in the United States and 1,300 abroad, 4,900 in all, read whole at employment services; the 375,000 workers it placed in 2025 are outside the count.

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, 32% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 18% people work and 50% 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 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% 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

4,900 employees as of December 28, 2025 (sum of stated parts). About 3,600 of 4,900 internal staff members are in the United States and 1,300 in international locations.

The filing: “As of December 28, 2025, we employed approximately 3,600 full-time staff members in the United States and an additional 1,300 in our international locations.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,600 full-time internal staff in the United States and 1,300 abroad; about 375,000 workers placed with customers in 2025 together with supplier partners are not employees in this count; no union, hourly or part-time counts; fiscal year ends the Sunday nearest December 31.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Employment Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• ManpowerGroup Inc. (MAN, 25,400 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028
• Robert Half Inc. (RHI, 14,500 employees)37% now, 50% by 2028
• Insperity, Inc. (NSP, 4,200 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028
• TrueBlue, Inc. (TBI, 3,500 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028
• TriNet Group, Inc. (TNET, 3,400 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028
• Barrett Business Services, Inc. (BBSI, 3,197 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028
• Everforth, Inc. (EFOR, 2,800 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028
• AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (AMN, 2,664 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

23 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it employs a range of AI technologies, third-party and its own Kelly Helix platform, to make its talent solutions more efficient and scalable, and names the risk that automation and AI disrupt the labor market and weaken demand for human capital, in 23 sentences.

• “Artificial Intelligence The Company employs a range of artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies to support its talent related solutions.”
• “The Company leverages both third-party AI solutions and internally developed proprietary tools, including the Company's Kelly Helix platform, to enhance the efficiency, consistency, and scalability of these activities.”
• “Technological advances, including advances in automation and artificial intelligence, may significantly disrupt the labor market and weaken demand for human capital.”
• “As technology continues to evolve, an increasing number of tasks currently performed by people may be replaced by automation, robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence ("AI"), and other technology advances outside of our control.”
• “This trend poses a risk to the staffing industry, particularly in lower-skill job categories and to creative, administrative, customer support and clerical roles vulnerable to advances in artificial intelligence.”

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 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20246median 4
• Fiscal 202523median 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 collector's 375,000 is the count of workers placed with customers during the year, not employees; the headcount is the sum of the stated internal U.S. and international staff, 4,900, and the universe's 3,600 was the U.S. part alone (rule 2).
• The employment services pattern is read for the internal staff; the placed workers who do varied work at clients are outside the count under rule 8.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000055135-26-000053, 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.