Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (MTD)

Precision instruments, with a large field service. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 6, 2026. Ranked 35 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 16,600 employees with 9,300 in sales and service and 1,600 in R&D, making laboratory, industrial and retail weighing and analytical instruments serviced in the field.

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: 21% now, 39% at the end of 2027, 47% at the end of 2028, 51% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 51% desk work, 17% people work and 32% 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 49% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 40% 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

16,600 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; 5,200 of the global workforce are in North and South America, 6,200 in Europe and 6,700 in Asia and other countries.

The filing: “Our total global workforce was approximately 18,100, consisting of 16,600 employees and 1,500 temporary personnel, as of December 31, 2025, and includes approximately 6,200 in Europe, 5,200 in North and South America, and 6,700 in Asia and other countries.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 16,600 employees and 1,500 temporary personnel; 9,300 in sales and service in about 40 countries, 1,600 in research and development and product engineering; about 9,500 represented by collective bargaining or another arrangement; 6,200 in Europe, 5,200 in the Americas, 6,700 in Asia and other countries.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

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

• Medtronic plc (MDT, 95,000 employees)19% now, 43% by 2028
• Emerson Electric Co. (EMR, 71,000 employees)20% now, 48% by 2028
• Danaher Corporation (DHR, 60,000 employees)19% now, 45% by 2028
• GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC, 54,000 employees)19% now, 50% by 2028
• L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX, 45,000 employees)18% now, 48% by 2028
• Rockwell Automation, Inc. (ROK, 26,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Garmin Ltd. (GRMN, 23,000 employees)19% now, 49% by 2028
• AMETEK, Inc. (AME, 22,500 employees)18% now, 42% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

8 sentences in the filing name AI. Eight sentences: the company offers AI-driven image recognition for fresh goods at retail checkouts, invests in automation, digitalization and AI technologies, and risk factors name the rapid adoption of AI among cybersecurity concerns.

• “In addition, we offer weighing solutions for fast-growing areas like self-checkout and unmanned stores, as well as AI-driven image recognition solutions for fresh goods.”
• “The rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies amplify these concerns.”
• “We continue to invest in global market trends around automation and digitalization, as well as technologies related to artificial intelligence (AI).”
• “For instance, it is expected that laws and regulations around the use of AI and machine learning tools will increase over the next few years, but it is unknown at this time what these laws and regulations will address and how and whether they will be adopted globally.”
• “As we introduce AI and machine learning into our technology platform (as well as those of our customers through provision of our services), we could become subject to these new regulations, which may be difficult to comply with.”

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 20236median 1
• Fiscal 20248median 4
• Fiscal 20258median 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 18,100 is the total global workforce including 1,500 temporary personnel; the 16,600 the filing calls employees are the headcount (rules 2 and 8), the temporary personnel in the notes.
• The split of the 9,300 sales and service employees between selling and field service is by description (c).
• The data service's geography table (Asia 100%) fails the checks and was not used; the filing's regional counts are in the notes.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001037646-26-000011, 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.