RB Global, Inc. (RBA)

Vehicle and equipment auction sites, 8,700 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 12 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An auction company whose filing counts 8,700 employees with 5,300 at its sites and nothing by business, so vehicle auctions lead by description with equipment auctions beside them.

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, 22% 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 60% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 26% becomes checking a model's work and 13% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

8,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). Stated for full-time employees: approximately 68% are located in the United States, applied to the whole.

The filing: “We employ approximately 8,000 full-time employees and approximately 700 part-time employees worldwide at December 31, 2025.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 8,000 full-time and 700 part-time employees at December 31, 2025, about 68% of full-time employees in the United States; about 5,300 full-time employees at auction and branch sites and 1,400 in sales and solutions; contractors hired for auctions as needed; TRIR 1.59.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• LKQ Corporation (LKQ, 44,000 employees)22% now, 32% by 2028
• Copart, Inc. (CPRT, 11,900 employees)22% now, 32% by 2028
• Rush Enterprises, Inc. (RUSHA, 7,937 employees)22% now, 32% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes an automated Vehicle Score model that rates vehicles from check-in photos and a predictive IAA Vehicle Value model using machine learning, and says the adoption of AI may intensify cybersecurity risks.

• “Our automated Vehicle Score model provides fast and accurate ratings based on photos taken at vehicle check-in, saving time and money IAA Vehicle Value™ A predictive model that uses machine learning and data mining methods to create an accurate, unbiased vehicle value Parts Services SmartEquip Online marketplace connecting equipment owners with parts manufacturers Catastrophe Response Services...”
• “The rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies may intensify our cybersecurity risks.”
• “These regulations and laws may cover taxation, tariffs, user privacy, data protection, machine learning and automated decision making, pricing, transaction processing, content, intellectual property rights, electronic contracts, digital marketing communications, consumer protection, and the characteristics and quality of our disposition services.”
• “We believe that laws and regulations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia the European Union and in other jurisdictions will be increasingly restrictive in the field of data privacy and protection and will in turn result in an increase in regulatory burdens for us to address to continue meeting our customers' expectations, in particular in relation to the sharing of perso...”
• “Over the past 5 years, he has sat on various industry CISO advisory boards and currently sits on two advisory boards for companies transforming security operations through artificial intelligence and enriched security data management solutions.”

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 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20245median 4
• Fiscal 20255median 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 8,000 is the full-time count; the filing states 700 part-time employees too, summed (rule 2).
• No count by business: the split between vehicle auctions and equipment auctions is by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-011682, 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.