Korn Ferry (KFY)
Executive search, consulting and talent products. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending April 30, 2026, filed June 26, 2026. Ranked 30 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
22%
End of 2028
43%
Employees, annual report
Not stated
Leading staffing pattern
Employment Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now22%
- End of 202736%
- End of 202843%
- End of 203046%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 54%
- Becomes checking a model's work 34%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
A talent firm whose excerpt carries no employee count and describes search, consulting and digital products, so the headcount is not stated and the lines are split by description with search leading.
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: 22% now, 36% at the end of 2027, 43% at the end of 2028, 46% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 46% desk work, 19% 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 54% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
Not stated in the filing. Not stated: the data service's 52% United States is revenue, not people.
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Employment Services | 65% | By description (c): the filing describes executive search, professional search, interim and recruitment process outsourcing businesses, employment services (NAICS 561312 executive search), as the larger part of its work, with no count by line. |
| Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services | 25% | By description (c): the consulting business advises organizations on organizational strategy, leadership and workforce readiness, management consulting, with no count stated. |
| Software Publishers | 10% | By description (c): the Digital business sells talent assessment and development products and platforms into which the filing says it is integrating AI, with no count of the people who build them, so a tenth is read at software publishers. |
What the filing says about the workforce: The human capital excerpt carries no employee count; the data service shows 8,965 as of April 30, 2026 (9,253 a year earlier). The collector's 5,000 is a client's count (the people who will power the Games), not Korn Ferry's.
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.
- ManpowerGroup Inc. (MAN, 25,400 employees)20% now, 32% by 2028
- Robert Half Inc. (RHI, 14,500 employees)22% now, 48% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
39 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it is integrating AI capabilities across the firm so consultants and clients can apply its insights, offers Workforce Readiness and AI Enablement services, and lists AI risks from data quality and cost to disintermediation and the reshaping of the talent markets central to its business.
- “Increasingly, artificial intelligence ("AI") capabilities help surface patterns, generate recommendations, and support decision-making by drawing on those insights.”
- “Workforce Readiness & AI Enablement: Helping organizations prepare for changing business models and AI-enabled ways of working by aligning talent, skills, workforce capabilities and organizational structures.”
- “We are integrating AI capabilities across the firm to enable consultants and clients to access and apply Korn Ferry's insights more effectively.”
- “By strengthening our platforms, protecting proprietary data and helping unlock the value of our Foundational Assets, AI supports how we deliver solutions, improve decision-making and expand the value of our offerings.”
- “In fiscal 2026, we accelerated firm-wide AI transformation initiatives designed to embed AI into key workflows and digital platforms across our solutions and enterprise functions, improving consultant effectiveness, efficiency, quality, and client outcomes while maintaining strong standards for security, transparency and responsible use.”
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 20217median 0
- Fiscal 20226median 0
- Fiscal 202323median 1
- Fiscal 202423median 4
- Fiscal 202539median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 8,965 | 2026-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2025-04-30 | 9,253 | 2025-06-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-04-30 | 9,000 | 2024-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-04-30 | 10,697 | 2023-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-04-30 | 10,770 | 2022-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-04-30 | 7,889 | 2021-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-04-30 | 8,198 | 2020-07-15 | 10-K |
| 2019-04-30 | 8,678 | 2019-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-04-30 | 7,643 | 2018-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-04-30 | 7,232 | 2017-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-04-30 | 3,626 | 2016-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-04-30 | 894 | 2015-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-04-30 | 794 | 2014-06-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-04-30 | 886 | 2013-06-25 | 10-K |
| 2012-04-30 | 826 | 2012-06-22 | 10-K |
| 2011-04-30 | 2,463 | 2011-06-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-04-30 | 2,200 | 2010-06-29 | 10-K |
| 2009-04-30 | 2,100 | 2009-06-29 | 10-K |
| 2008-04-30 | 2,584 | 2008-06-30 | 10-K |
| 2007-04-30 | 2,260 | 2007-06-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-04-30 | 1,841 | 2006-07-14 | 10-K |
| 2005-04-30 | 1,575 | 2005-07-14 | 10-K |
| 2004-04-30 | 1,414 | 2004-07-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-04-30 | 1,536 | 2003-07-22 | 10-K |
| 2002-04-30 | 1,799 | 2002-07-29 | 10-K |
| 2001-04-30 | 2,700 | 2001-07-30 | 10-K |
| 2000-04-30 | 2,200 | 2000-07-31 | 10-K |
| 1999-04-30 | 1,565 | 1999-07-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Headcount not stated in the excerpt (rule 12): the data service's 8,965 as of April 30, 2026 is in the notes; the collector's 5,000 is a client's count.
- The U.S. share is not stated.
- No count by line of business: the split among search, consulting and digital is by description (c); the data service's segment table is by client industry and is not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000056679-26-000021, 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 Korn Ferry's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 43% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Korn Ferry'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 Korn Ferry employ?
- Its annual report for the period ending April 30, 2026 does not state a headcount the reading could take.
- What kinds of work make up Korn Ferry's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Employment Services; by those patterns the work is about 46% desk work, 19% 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 Korn Ferry's annual report say about AI?
- 39 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 7, 6, 23, 23 and 39 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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