Lumen Technologies, Inc. (LUMN)

Network services company, 24,000, 86% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 20, 2026. Ranked 5 of the 13 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A telecommunications company whose filing states its total and the count abroad, and nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the telecommunications 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: 27% now, 42% at the end of 2027, 49% at the end of 2028, 51% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 51% desk work, 20% people work and 29% 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 48% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 38% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

24,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). About 3,400 of 24,000 employees outside the U.S., as the filing states, so about 86% in the U.S.

The filing: “We aim to attract broad talent to develop innovative ideas that transform industries worldwide. 5 Table o f Contents As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 24,000 employees globally, including approximately 3,400 outside the U.S.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 24,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (25,000 a year earlier, 39,000 in 2020), about 3,400 outside the U.S.; a learning system with about 160,000 courses.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

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

• Comcast (CMCSA, 179,000 employees)24% now, 47% by 2028
• AT&T (T, 133,030 employees)27% now, 49% by 2028
• Charter Communications, Inc. (CHTR, 91,900 employees)27% now, 49% by 2028
• Verizon (VZ, 89,900 employees)27% now, 49% by 2028
• T-Mobile US, Inc. (TMUS, 75,000 employees)27% now, 49% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

27 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 27 times, as the market the company's networks serve and as learning it makes available to employees.

• “BUSINESS Business Overview We are a leading digital networking services company, empowering enterprise businesses to fuel growth in a multi-cloud, AI-first marketplace by connecting people, data, and applications quickly, securely, and effortlessly.”
• “To attain this goal, we strive to, among other things: deliver best in class physical infrastructure to meet network, transport, data, and computing needs; optimize and innovate the way locations, data centers, and clouds connect; limit, detect, and mitigate network and data security vulnerabilities; expand our product offerings and strengthen our digital self-service ordering platforms; create...”
• “As we build the backbone for the AI economy, we are committed to making AI learning accessible for all employees through high-quality resources.”
• “Our AI Literacy program equips our employees with foundational knowledge of AI, its applications, and its ethical considerations.”
• “This ecosystem expands how we design, deliver, and scale solutions to best support our customers' success as the trusted network for AI.”

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 20221median 0
• Fiscal 202316median 1
• Fiscal 202417median 4
• Fiscal 202527median 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

• One pattern by description: the filing gives no count by kind of work.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000018926-26-000014, 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.