Otter Tail Corporation (OTTR)
Electric utility, metal fabrication and plastics, counted. Read November 11, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 125 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
29%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
36%
Employees, annual report
2,198
Leading staffing pattern
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now29%
- End of 202735%
- End of 202836%
- End of 203037%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 62%
- Becomes checking a model's work 32%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
A utility and manufacturing company whose filing counts every operating company, so each share is a stated count.
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: 29% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 37% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 37% desk work, 14% people work and 50% 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 62% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 32% 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
2,198 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the utility's service area is in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed 2,198 full-time employees as shown in the table below.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only) | 49% | Counted (a): BTD, the metal stamping and fabrication company in the Manufacturing Segment, employs 1,075 of 2,198. |
| Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution | 33% | Counted (a): Otter Tail Power, the Electric Segment, employs 726 of 2,198. |
| Plastics Product Manufacturing | 16% | Counted (a): T.O. Plastics employs 160 and the Plastics Segment's two pipe makers 200, together 360 of 2,198. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 2% | Counted (a): the filing states 37 employees at Corporate, kept under rule 5 because it is counted. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 378 employees of the utility are represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; no other operating company's employees are represented. The table counts full-time employees.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- The Timken Company (TKR, 19,000 employees)28% now, 36% by 2028
- Masco Corporation (MAS, 18,000 employees)28% now, 34% by 2028
- Allegion plc (ALLE, 13,300 employees)28% now, 33% by 2028
- Snap-on Incorporated (SNA, 13,000 employees)35% now, 45% by 2028
- Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. (FBIN, 10,000 employees)26% now, 31% by 2028
- Olin Corporation (OLN, 7,849 employees)30% now, 37% by 2028
- Crane Company (CR, 7,100 employees)30% now, 40% by 2028
- Edgewell Personal Care Company (EPC, 6,700 employees)27% now, 32% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's one sentence says cyber attacks may be carried out through the use of artificial intelligence.
- “Cyber attacks or other security breaches may also be perpetrated through the use of artificial intelligence, which could introduce additional complexity to such an attack or breach.”
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 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 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 | 2,198 | 2026-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,133 | 2025-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,655 | 2024-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,422 | 2023-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,487 | 2022-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,074 | 2021-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2,208 | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,321 | 2019-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 1,229 | 2018-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,054 | 2017-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 2,005 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 1,893 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,336 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,286 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 3,155 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 3,901 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 3,562 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing states full-time employees only.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001466593-26-000008, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.2 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 Otter Tail Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 29% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Otter Tail Corporation'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 Otter Tail Corporation employ?
- 2,198 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Otter Tail Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only); by those patterns the work is about 37% desk work, 14% people work and 50% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Otter Tail Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 1 and 1 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 5.2 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 11, 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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