QXO, Inc. (QXO)
Roofing and building products distributor, 7,794 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 10 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
26%
End of 2028
39%
Employees, annual report
7,794
Leading staffing pattern
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now26%
- End of 202736%
- End of 202839%
- End of 203040%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 59%
- Becomes checking a model's work 27%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
A building products distributor whose filing states 7,794 active employees after its 2025 acquisition and nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce is read at construction materials wholesaling.
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: 26% now, 36% at the end of 2027, 39% at the end of 2028, 40% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 40% desk work, 21% 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 59% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 27% 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
7,794 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: the filing counts no employees by country; the distribution branches are in the United States and Canada.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 7,794 active employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only) | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes the distribution of roofing and building products from branches to contractors, lumber and construction materials wholesaling (NAICS 4233), with no count by kind of work, so the whole workforce is read at the durable goods wholesaling group. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 7,794 active employees as of December 31, 2025, up from 211 a year earlier with the acquisition of the roofing distributor; 320 represented by labor unions; no material labor disputes.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Ferguson plc (FERG, 35,000 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
- Arrow Electronics, Inc. (ARW, 22,230 employees)27% now, 43% by 2028
- WESCO International, Inc. (WCC, 21,000 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
- Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (RS, 15,700 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
- Avnet, Inc. (AVT, 15,040 employees)26% now, 39% by 2028
- Boise Cascade Company (BCC, 7,680 employees)21% now, 31% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it will deploy AI-led solutions for lead generation, AI-led analysis of price elasticity and AI-driven predictive analytics for inventory forecasting by SKU.
- “Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include, among others: an inability to obtain the products we distribute resulting in lost revenues and reduced margins and damaging relationships with customers; a change in supplier pricing and demand adversely affecting our income and gross margins; a change in vendor rebates adversely affecting our inco...”
- “We will deploy technology-driven solutions to drive revenue, including AI-led solutions to enhance lead generation, AI-led data analysis to better understand price elasticity, and AI-driven predictive analytics to improve inventory forecast accuracy by SKU.”
- “Earlier in his career, he held senior engineering roles at Microsoft, where he developed large-scale data systems for online services and advanced AI-driven advertising platforms.”
- “Additionally, existing and future artificial intelligence ("AI") capabilities present a growing threat by aiding experienced and inexperienced threat actors in identifying vulnerabilities and crafting increasingly sophisticated and targeted cybersecurity attacks.”
- “Vulnerabilities may also be introduced from the use of AI by us, our customers or suppliers.”
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 20240median 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 | 7,794 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 211 | 2025-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 195 | 2024-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 172 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 165 | 2022-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 165 | 2021-03-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 157 | 2020-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 178 | 2019-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 158 | 2018-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 147 | 2017-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 139 | 2016-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 100 | 2015-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 80 | 2014-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 61 | 2013-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 48 | 2012-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 36 | 2011-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 36 | 2010-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 6 | 2009-04-06 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is not stated.
- The count rose from 211 to 7,794 with the acquisition of the distribution business in 2025.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-012601, 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 QXO, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 26% now and 39% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce QXO, 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 QXO, Inc. employ?
- 7,794 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up QXO, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only); by those patterns the work is about 40% desk work, 21% people work and 38% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does QXO, Inc.'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, 0, 0 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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