The Workforce AI Index · Consumer Defensive
Philip Morris International Inc. (PM)
Tobacco maker, one pattern, mostly abroad. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-06. Ranked 11 of the 16 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 84,900 people worldwide and nothing by kind of work, so one tobacco manufacturing pattern carries the workforce (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, 25% at the end of 2027, 27% at the end of 2028, 28% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 28% desk work, 11% people work and 61% 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 68% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 26% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
84,900 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing states about 170 markets and more than 130 nationalities and gives no count by country; the Americas segment is 12% of revenue.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 84,900 people worldwide, including full-time, temporary and part-time staff.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Tobacco Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): the filing's business is combustible and smoke-free tobacco and nicotine products made and sold worldwide, one industry, with no count by kind of work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 84,900 people worldwide including full-time, temporary and part-time staff; collective bargaining agreements in several countries and a European Works Council; more than 130 nationalities.
What the filing says about AI
8 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 8 sentences, as risk: compliance with privacy, data and AI laws, and the growing use of AI-based solutions in its business.
- “Our or our business partners' failure or inability to adhere to privacy, data, artificial intelligence and information security laws could result in reputational harm, legal liability, and adversely affect our operating results.”
- “An actual or alleged failure to comply with complex and changing privacy, data, artificial intelligence and information security laws and regulations such as under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, various U.S. state and federal laws, and other similar privacy, data, and information security laws, regulations, or voluntary guidelines that could establish legal duties across the various...”
- “We increasingly use artificial intelligence-based solutions in our business, which could result in reputational harm, legal liability, and adversely affect our operating results.”
- “We and our business partners are increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence ("AI")-based solutions in our ways of working and operations, but this process involves uncertainty and risks, which may or may not yield corresponding benefits.”
- “There is a risk of artificial intelligence system failures, disruptions, or vulnerabilities that could compromise PMI's information technology 17 networks and systems and the integrity, availability, security, or privacy of PMI data processed by or through such systems.”
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 | 84,900 | 2026-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 83,100 | 2025-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 82,700 | 2024-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 79,800 | 2023-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 69,600 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 71,000 | 2021-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 73,500 | 2020-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 77,400 | 2019-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 80,600 | 2018-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 79,500 | 2017-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 80,200 | 2016-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 82,500 | 2015-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 91,100 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 87,100 | 2013-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 78,100 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 78,300 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 77,300 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 75,600 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by kind of work or by country; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
- Most of the workforce is abroad; the pattern applies abroad because the work is the same in kind (rule 7).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-005939, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Philip Morris International Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 27% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Philip Morris International 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 Philip Morris International Inc. employ?
- 84,900 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Philip Morris International Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Tobacco Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 28% desk work, 11% people work and 61% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Philip Morris International Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 8 sentences in the filing name AI. 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 1, 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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