La-Z-Boy Incorporated (LZB)
Upholstery plants with retail stores, counted by segment. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending April 25, 2026, filed June 16, 2026. Ranked 75 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
31%
Employees, annual report
10,200
Leading staffing pattern
Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (3371 and 3372 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now20%
- End of 202728%
- End of 202831%
- End of 203031%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 67%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
La-Z-Boy states approximately 10,200 full-time equivalent employees at the end of fiscal 2026, 7,600 in Wholesale, 1,850 in Retail, 450 at Joybird and the remaining 300 corporate, so the furniture plants take the wholesale count, the stores and Joybird the retail pattern, and the corporate remainder management of companies (a).
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: 20% now, 28% at the end of 2027, 31% at the end of 2028, 31% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 31% desk work, 15% people work and 54% 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 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
10,200 employees as of April 25, 2026 (full-time equivalent). The filing counts employees by segment, not by country; its plants are in the U.S. and Mexico and its United Kingdom manufacturing closed in fiscal 2026.
The filing: “We employed approximately 10,200 full-time equivalent employees at the end of fiscal 2026, compared with approximately 10,600 employees at the end of fiscal 2025.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (3371 and 3372 only) | 75% | The filing counts approximately 7,600 employees in its Wholesale segment, the upholstery and casegoods plants and the wholesale business, read at the furniture group (a). |
| Furniture and Home Furnishings Retailers | 23% | The filing counts approximately 1,850 employees in its Retail segment and 450 at Joybird, the stores and the online retailer, read at furniture retailers (a). |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 3% | The filing states that the remaining employees, about 300 by subtraction from the counts, are corporate personnel, a stated corporate remainder read at management of companies under rule 6 (a). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Full-time equivalents; the majority employed full-time; the count fell from 10,600 with the disposal of part of the casegoods business, the closure of the U.K. manufacturing business and fewer people in Mexico, offset by retail growth, as the filing states.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (3371 and 3372 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.
- HNI Corporation (HNI, 19,500 employees)18% now, 30% by 2028
- MasterBrand, Inc. (MBC, 12,633 employees)20% now, 35% by 2028
- MillerKnoll, Inc. (MLKN, 10,544 employees)19% now, 29% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as increasing the effectiveness, speed and scale of cyber-attacks, and the growing use of AI and generative AI in media and consumer behavior it must adapt to.
- “In 12 Table of Contents addition, evolving technologies, including artificial intelligence ("AI"), may increase the effectiveness, speed and scale of cyber-attacks.”
- “Our continued success depends in part on our ability to adapt to a rapidly changing media environment, including use of social media and online advertising campaigns, and more recently the growing use of AI and generative AI, as well as changes to consumer behavior based on these new technologies.”
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 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | 10,200 | 2026-06-16 | 10-K |
| 2025-04-26 | 10,600 | 2025-06-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-04-27 | 10,500 | 2024-06-17 | 10-K |
| 2023-04-29 | 10,500 | 2023-06-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-04-30 | 12,800 | 2022-06-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-04-24 | 11,500 | 2021-06-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-04-25 | 9,700 | 2020-06-23 | 10-K |
| 2019-04-27 | 9,700 | 2019-06-18 | 10-K |
| 2018-04-28 | 9,000 | 2018-06-19 | 10-K |
| 2017-04-29 | 8,950 | 2017-06-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-04-30 | 8,700 | 2016-06-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-04-25 | 8,270 | 2015-06-16 | 10-K |
| 2014-04-26 | 8,300 | 2014-06-17 | 10-K |
| 2013-04-27 | 8,185 | 2013-06-18 | 10-K |
| 2012-04-28 | 8,160 | 2012-06-19 | 10-K |
| 2011-04-30 | 7,910 | 2011-06-21 | 10-K |
| 2010-04-24 | 8,290 | 2010-06-14 | 10-K |
| 2009-04-25 | 10,060 | 2009-06-15 | 10-K |
| 2008-04-26 | 11,729 | 2008-06-18 | 10-K |
| 2007-04-28 | 13,404 | 2007-06-19 | 10-K |
| 2006-06-22 | 14,822 | 2006-06-22 | 10-K |
| 2005-04-30 | 16,125 | 2005-06-27 | 10-K |
| 2004-04-24 | 16,800 | 2004-06-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-04-26 | 17,850 | 2003-06-20 | 10-K |
| 2002-04-27 | 19,700 | 2002-06-24 | 10-K |
| 2001-07-27 | 21,600 | 2001-07-27 | 10-K |
| 2000-04-29 | 21,600 | 2000-07-28 | 10-K |
| 1999-04-24 | 12,796 | 1999-07-08 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-04-25 | 12,155 | 1998-07-21 | 10-K |
| 1997-04-26 | 11,236 | 1997-07-24 | 10-K |
| 1996-04-27 | 10,733 | 1996-07-15 | 10-K |
| 1995-04-29 | 11,149 | 1995-07-26 | 10-K |
| 1994-04-30 | 9,370 | 1994-07-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's pick was the prior year's 10,600 in the same sentence; the count at the end of fiscal 2026 is 10,200 full-time equivalents (rule 2).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000057131-26-000019, 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 La-Z-Boy Incorporated's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 31% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce La-Z-Boy Incorporated'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 La-Z-Boy Incorporated employ?
- 10,200 as of April 25, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending April 25, 2026 states, in full-time equivalents.
- What kinds of work make up La-Z-Boy Incorporated's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (3371 and 3372 only); by those patterns the work is about 31% desk work, 15% people work and 54% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does La-Z-Boy Incorporated's annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 1 and 2 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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