Public Storage (PSA)
Self-storage operator counted by role. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 6 of the 15 Real Estate companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
25%
End of 2028
42%
Employees, annual report
5,770
Leading staffing pattern
Real Estate
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now25%
- End of 202738%
- End of 202842%
- End of 203043%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 56%
- Becomes checking a model's work 32%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
Public Storage’s approximately 5,770 employees are 5,330 at its properties, care center and field management and 440 in corporate operations, each counted by the filing.
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: 25% now, 38% at the end of 2027, 42% at the end of 2028, 43% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 43% desk work, 25% people work and 32% 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 56% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 32% 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
5,770 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; its self-storage operations are in the United States.
The filing: “We have approximately 5,770 employees, including 4,920 customer facing roles (such as property level and customer care center personnel), 410 field management employees, and 440 employees in our corporate operations.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Real Estate | 92% | By (a): the filing counts 4,920 in customer facing roles at the properties and the customer care center and 410 in field management, 5,330 of 5,770, self-storage property operations. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 8% | By (a): the filing counts 440 employees in corporate operations, a stated corporate count read at management of companies under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 5,770 employees: 4,920 customer facing (property level and customer care center), 410 field management, 440 corporate operations; most new hires join as property managers.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Real Estate, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL, 113,200 employees)20% now, 32% by 2028
- Cushman & Wakefield plc (CWK, 53,000 employees)18% now, 28% by 2028
- Newmark Group, Inc. (NMRK, 8,800 employees)28% now, 42% by 2028
- Extra Space Storage Inc. (EXR, 8,393 employees)25% now, 41% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI seven times: visibility on large language model platforms in its marketing, and the risks of adopting AI and machine learning.
- “We seek to update the structure, layout, and content of our website regularly to enhance our placement in "unpaid" search in Google and related websites, to improve the efficiency of our bids in "paid" search campaigns and visibility on large language model platforms, and to maximize users' likelihood of reserving space on our website.”
- “Our use of or failure to adopt advancements in information technology, such as artificial intelligence, may hinder or prevent us from achieving strategic objectives or otherwise harm our business.”
- “Our use of or inability to safely and effectively adopt and deliver new technological capabilities and enhancements in line with strategic objectives, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, may put us at a competitive disadvantage; cause us to miss opportunities to innovate, achieve efficiencies, or improve the customer experience; or adversely impact our business, reputation,...”
- “For example, we have begun to utilize artificial intelligence technologies in various aspects of our business, which are susceptible to errors and other malfunctions which could lead to operational challenges and reputational risks.”
- “In addition, the use of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, entails risks including risks relating to the possibility of intellectual property infringement or misappropriation; data privacy; quality control related to artificial intelligence outputs; new or enhanced governmental or regulatory scrutiny, requirements, litigation, or other liability; ethical concerns; negativ...”
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 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20245median 4
- Fiscal 20257median 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 | 5,770 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 5,900 | 2025-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,200 | 2024-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 5,900 | 2023-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,800 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 5,400 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 5,900 | 2020-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 5,600 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 5,500 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,500 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 5,300 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 5,300 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 5,200 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 5,000 | 2013-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 5,000 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 4,900 | 2011-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 4,900 | 2010-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 5,200 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 5,700 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The customer care center personnel are inside the counted customer facing roles and stay in the property pattern.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-007696, 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.
The report on Public Storage, $29
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Questions about this company
- How much of Public Storage's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 25% now and 42% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Public Storage'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 Public Storage employ?
- 5,770 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Public Storage's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Real Estate; by those patterns the work is about 43% desk work, 25% people work and 32% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Public Storage's annual report say about AI?
- 7 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 5 and 7 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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