nVent Electric plc (NVT)
Electrical enclosures and connections maker, 48% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 137 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
33%
Employees, annual report
12,000
Leading staffing pattern
Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202728%
- End of 202833%
- End of 203035%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 65%
- Becomes checking a model's work 28%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
nVent states approximately 12,000 employees worldwide at December 31, 2025, 48% in the U.S., with nothing by segment or kind of work, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at other electrical equipment and components by description (c).
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: 17% now, 28% at the end of 2027, 33% at the end of 2028, 35% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 35% desk work, 16% people work and 49% 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 65% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 28% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
12,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states approximately 48% of employees located in the U.S.
The filing: “HUMAN CAPITAL MATTERS As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 12,000 people worldwide, of which approximately 48% are located in the U.S.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing | 100% | The filing describes electrical enclosures, liquid cooling, fastening, grounding and connection products in its Enclosures and Electrical and Fastening Solutions segments, with no count by segment, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at other electrical equipment and components by description (c), as Hubbell's electrical products were read. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 48% in the U.S.; outside the U.S. some employees are represented by a union, works council or employee association, without a share; global hourly production employees and professional employees are the two groups the filing names.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Other Electrical Equipment and Component 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.
- Hubbell Incorporated (HUBB, 18,000 employees)17% now, 36% by 2028
- Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (AEIS, 13,000 employees)17% now, 33% by 2028
- EnerSys (ENS, 9,682 employees)17% now, 33% by 2028
- Belden Inc. (BDC, 8,000 employees)18% now, 39% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
11 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as a trend, with electrification and digitalization, driving demand for its products, acceptable use of AI in its code of conduct training, and AI as a tool threat actors may leverage against its systems.
- “We believe that trends like electrification, sustainability and digitalization, including increased use of artificial intelligence, are helping to drive the need for our products.”
- “Code of Conduct Training In 2025, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics training was offered in 12 different languages to employees in 35 countries. 100% of professional employees completed the training, including topics such as responsible use of social media, the importance of reporting ethical concerns, identifying and mitigating bribery and corruption risks and cybersecurity, data privacy...”
- “Cybersecurity threats from user error to attacks designed to gain unauthorized access to our systems, networks and data are increasing in frequency and sophistication, including the risk that threat actors will leverage emerging technology, such as artificial intelligence, to exploit vulnerabilities.”
- “The risk of cybersecurity attacks may increase as artificial intelligence capabilities improve and are increasingly used to identify vulnerabilities and construct increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, with the possibility of additional vulnerabilities being introduced through our own use of artificial intelligence and its use by our stakeholders, including vendors and customers.”
- “We may use artificial intelligence in our business, and challenges with properly managing its use could result in potential regulatory, financial and reputational risks.”
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 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20243median 4
- Fiscal 202511median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 12,000 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 12,100 | 2025-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 11,300 | 2024-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 10,400 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 9,900 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 8,800 | 2021-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 9,500 | 2020-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 9,000 | 2019-02-19 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment or kind of work: the one pattern is by description (c); the enclosures could be read as fabricated metal products and the liquid cooling as HVAC equipment, but the filing counts neither.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-008608, 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 nVent Electric plc's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 33% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce nVent Electric plc'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 nVent Electric plc employ?
- 12,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 48% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up nVent Electric plc's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 35% desk work, 16% people work and 49% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does nVent Electric plc's annual report say about AI?
- 11 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 3 and 11 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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