Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI)
Mailing equipment and presort services, 75% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 7 of the 198 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
33%
End of 2028
50%
Employees, annual report
6,600
Leading staffing pattern
Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now33%
- End of 202745%
- End of 202850%
- End of 203052%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 48%
- Becomes checking a model's work 38%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
Pitney Bowes’ approximately 6,600 employees, 75% in the United States, sell and service mailing and shipping equipment and sort mail in presort operating centers, split by description.
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, 45% at the end of 2027, 50% at the end of 2028, 52% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 52% desk work, 24% people work and 24% 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 48% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 38% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
6,600 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 75% of employees are in the United States, by the filing.
The filing: “We have approximately 6,600 employees, with 75% located in the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing | 55% | By description (c): the SendTech business makes, sells, services and finances mailing and shipping equipment and software, office machinery work; no count by segment. |
| Business Support Services | 45% | By description (c): Presort Services sorts mail for postal discounts in its operating centers with a contingent hourly workforce beside, business support work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 6,600 employees, 75% in the United States; a contingent hourly workforce supplements the full-time workforce to meet fluctuating demand and is not counted.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Commercial and Service Industry Machinery 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.
- The Middleby Corporation (MIDD, 8,826 employees)20% now, 40% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI three times, among risks: AI-enhanced cyber threats, the EU AI Act and U.S. state AI laws.
- “These cyber threats are diverse and constantly evolving, especially given the advances in, and the rise of the use of, artificial intelligence, thereby increasing the difficulty of preventing, detecting, and successfully defending against them and may be more difficult to detect and mitigate, including as threat actors use artificial intelligence and other advanced tools to enhance attacks and...”
- “The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act, which entered into force in August 2024, introduces additional requirements for certain AI systems and practices and will apply on a phased timeline, and may increase compliance obligations for organizations that develop, deploy or use AI-enabled tools.”
- “In the United States, a growing number of states have enacted different laws regarding personal information, privacy and artificial intelligence that impose significant new requirements on consumer personal information.”
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 20243median 4
- Fiscal 20253median 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 | 6,600 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 7,200 | 2025-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 10,500 | 2024-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 11,000 | 2023-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 11,500 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 11,500 | 2021-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 11,000 | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 13,300 | 2019-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 14,700 | 2018-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 14,200 | 2017-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 10,500 | 2016-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 10,600 | 2015-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 11,400 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 20,800 | 2013-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 20,100 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 21,600 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 23,465 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 25,327 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 26,267 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 25,856 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 25,319 | 2006-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 27,152 | 2005-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 24,747 | 2004-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 25,188 | 2003-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 26,698 | 2002-03-14 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 23,335 | 2001-03-26 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 25,792 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 26,792 | 1999-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 25,351 | 1998-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 24,054 | 1997-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 27,723 | 1996-04-01 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 32,792 | 1995-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 32,539 | 1994-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The contingent hourly workforce is outside the count (rule 8).
- No count by segment; the split between the mailing equipment business and presort services is by description.
- The headcount series falls from 11,500 in 2021 to 6,600 as businesses were sold; the years are not like for like.
- The revenue table’s lines are revenue types, not segments, and were not used.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-009650, 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 Pitney Bowes Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 33% now and 50% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Pitney Bowes Inc.'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 Pitney Bowes Inc. employ?
- 6,600 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 75% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Pitney Bowes Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 52% desk work, 24% people work and 24% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Pitney Bowes Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 3 and 3 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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