McGraw Hill, Inc. (MH)

Education publisher, 4,400 permanent employees, 83% Americas. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending March 31, 2026, filed June 11, 2026. Ranked 1 of the 76 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 4,400 permanent employees by region, 1,500 of them in sales, in one education publishing business, so one publishers pattern carries the workforce.

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: 33% now, 56% at the end of 2027, 64% at the end of 2028, 66% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 66% desk work, 23% people work and 11% 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 35% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 48% becomes checking a model's work and 15% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,400 employees as of March 31, 2026 (stated). The filing states 83% of employees in the Americas, 10% in APAC and 7% in EMEA; the Americas figure is not a U.S. count, so the share stays null, and the United States is 91% of revenue.

The filing: “As of March 31, 2026, McGraw Hill had approximately 4,400 permanent employees in 35 countries.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,400 permanent employees in 35 countries, 83% in the Americas; about 1,500 sales professionals; about 250 (6%) in Italy, Mexico and Spain under collective bargaining agreements; contractors and consultants engaged for auxiliary services and not counted.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

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

• News Corporation (NWS, 21,700 employees)31% now, 64% by 2028
• USA TODAY Co. Inc. (TDAY, 9,540 employees)32% now, 64% by 2028
• The New York Times Company (NYT, 6,000 employees)33% now, 64% by 2028
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (WLYB, 4,500 employees)33% now, 64% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

55 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says the company uses AI to deliver personalized learning experiences at global scale and trains employees in AI literacy, and names generative AI among the technologies reshaping its industry.

• “Department of Education, and the impact on our cost of development and implementation strategies; the effect of various political and economic issues and our ability to comply with laws and regulations we are subject to, both in the United States and internationally; our ability to adjust to developments in the economic or regulatory environment; Table of Contents the effect of technological de...”
• “McGraw Hill operates at the intersection of proprietary content, software and data, using artificial intelligence to deliver personalized learning experiences at global scale, driving positive outcomes throughout the entire learning lifecycle.”
• “Demand for personalized content, delivered via intuitive digital solutions, is reshaping the industry as educators continue to leverage technology, including generative artificial intelligence ("AI"), to meet students where they are in their learning journey.”
• “At McGraw Hill, we recognize that educational content integrity is of the utmost importance, especially as generative AI becomes more integrated into the learning process.”
• “With the proliferation of AI-generated content, the risks of dissemination of inaccurate and low-quality information to learners and educators are heightened, which is why our proprietary content is rigorously researched and designed to meet the highest quality standards.”

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

• Contractors and consultants engaged for auxiliary services are not counted (rule 8).
• The 1,500 sales professionals are a function count inside the publishing pattern.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001951070-26-000022, 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.