Planet Fitness, Inc. (PLNT)

Franchised fitness clubs, corporate-owned club staff counted. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 72 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Planet Fitness states 4,020 employees at its corporate-owned clubs and 373 at its Club Support Center and abroad, 4,393 in all; the clubs are read at fitness and recreation centers and the counted support staff at management of companies.

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, 32% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 32% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 32% desk work, 30% people work and 38% 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 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 23% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,393 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). The filing counts 373 support employees at its Club Support Center and in Canada and Spain and states no count by country; the data service shows 97% of revenue in the Americas.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed 4,020 employees at our corporate-owned clubs and 373 employees in the aggregate who support corporate and corporate-owned club activities at our Club Support Center and in Canada and Spain.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 4,020 at corporate-owned clubs and 373 at the Club Support Center and in Canada and Spain; the count has grown from 1,387 in 2020 with club acquisitions; franchise, equipment and advertising revenue; no hourly, part-time or union counts.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Other Amusement and Recreation Industries, 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.

• Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. (LTH, 44,000 employees)27% now, 29% by 2028
• Lucky Strike Entertainment Corporation (LUCK, 14,457 employees)28% now, 31% by 2028
• Vail Resorts, Inc. (MTN, 6,500 employees)26% now, 28% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's AI sentences are risk factors: its adoption or non-adoption of AI could affect its performance or reputation or result in liability, and failing to incorporate such technologies efficiently may hurt its financial performance, in six sentences.

• “Planet Fitness' adoption or non-adoption of artificial intelligence could result in an adverse impact on Planet Fitness' financial performance or reputation or otherwise result in liability. 15 Table of Contents Risks related to our indebtedness Substantially all of the assets of certain of our subsidiaries are security for our indebtedness, which imposes certain restrictions on our activities...”
• “Our adoption or non-adoption of artificial intelligence could result in an adverse impact on our performance or reputation or otherwise result in liability.”
• “In light of the increased public interest and technological advancements in artificial intelligence and other similar technologies, our failure to efficiently incorporate such technologies into our business may result in the deterioration of our financial performance.”
• “To the extent we pursue or utilize artificial intelligence technologies (either directly or through our franchisees or third-party information technology vendors or service providers), the incorporation of such technologies into our business may require substantial resources to be expended, may divert the attention of management, and/or may prove to be unsuccessful or 31 Table of Contents even...”
• “There has also been increased scrutiny from regulators and other bodies regarding the use of data in connection with artificial intelligence and similar technologies, including around the use of personal data in a manner that may involve identifying, tracking, or marketing to individuals.”

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 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20246median 4
• Fiscal 20256median 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 4,020 is the club count alone; the headcount is the sum of the stated club and support parts (rule 2).
• Franchisees' employees at franchised clubs are outside the count under rule 8, as the filing counts only corporate-owned clubs.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001637207-26-000011, 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.