Plexus Corp. (PLXS)

Electronics contract manufacturing, mostly in Asia. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 27, 2025, filed November 14, 2025. Ranked 65 of the 70 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A contract manufacturer whose filing states one total and nothing by function or country, so one electronics manufacturing pattern carries it.

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, 35% at the end of 2027, 44% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 14% people work and 37% 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), 41% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

20,000 employees as of September 27, 2025 (stated). No count by country is stated; 59% of fiscal 2025 revenue was in the Asia Pacific segment, 30% in the Americas and 11% in EMEA.

The filing: “Employee Data Of our over 20,000 team members, 49.5% are female, 50.4% are male and 0.1% choose not to identify.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Over 20,000 team members, 49.5% female and 50.4% male; 18 manufacturing facilities, 17 certified to ISO 14001; a global team of over 50 environmental, health and safety professionals; no hourly, part-time or union counts are stated.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Semiconductor and Other Electronic 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.

• Amphenol Corporation (APH, 170,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• Flex Ltd. (FLEX, 149,686 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
• Jabil Inc. (JBL, 135,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
• TE Connectivity plc (TEL, 93,000 employees)18% now, 44% by 2028
• Intel Corp. (INTC, 85,100 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• Micron Technology, Inc. (MU, 53,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM, 52,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• Coherent, Inc. (COHR, 51,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the platform technologies it invests in, beside manufacturing execution systems, process and warehouse automation and vision systems, and names customers' and competitors' adaptation to AI among its risks.

• “In addition to our core solutions, we are committed to investing in new platform technologies, such as advanced manufacturing execution systems, process automation, warehouse automation, artificial intelligence, real-time vision and anomaly detection systems and collaboration tools.”
• “These factors include: customers' ability or inability to adapt to rapidly changing technologies, such as artificial intelligence, and evolving industry standards that can result in short product life-cycles or product obsolescence customers' ability or inability to develop and market their products, some of which are new and untested, and the potential failure of our customers' products to gai...”
• “Our competitors may: respond more quickly than us to advancements in technology, such as artificial intelligence be faster to develop new business models or otherwise adapt to evolving customer requirements and expectations have greater name recognition, critical mass and geographic and market presence generally or within specific technologies or subsectors be better able to identify and take a...”
• “This risk is enhanced as a result of the increasing sophistication of threat actors, including through the use of artificial intelligence, and an increase in our remote workforce due to flexible workplace practices, for example by reason of utilizing home networks that may lack encryption or secure password protection, virtual meeting/conference security concerns and an increase of phishing/cyb...”
• “The emergence or advancement in technologies, such as artificial intelligence, industry standards or customer requirements may render our technical personnel, equipment, inventory or processes obsolete or noncompetitive.”

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 20245median 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 filing states the count as over 20,000, read as 20,000.
• One pattern by description (c); the filing counts no employees by function or region.
• The U.S. share is not stated; most revenue is earned in the Asia Pacific segment.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000785786-25-000064, 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.