Robert Half Inc. (RHI)
Staffing offices and a consulting arm, counted. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 27 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
22%
End of 2028
48%
Employees, annual report
14,500
Leading staffing pattern
Employment Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now22%
- End of 202739%
- End of 202848%
- End of 203050%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 50%
- Becomes checking a model's work 38%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
The filing states 14,500 full-time internal staff, 7,100 of them in Protiviti, and keeps the 94,300 placed engagement professionals apart, so staffing and consulting each take a counted share.
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: 22% now, 39% at the end of 2027, 48% at the end of 2028, 50% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 50% desk work, 19% people work and 30% 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 50% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 38% 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
14,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; U.S. revenue is 78%, and 34.7% of the U.S. workforce is from underrepresented groups.
The filing: “The Company had approximately 14,500 full-time internal staff, including approximately 7,100 employees engaged directly in Protiviti operations, as of December 31, 2025.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Employment Services | 51% | The 7,400 internal staff outside Protiviti, by subtraction from the stated 14,500 (a), run the contract talent and permanent placement businesses (83% and 17% of revenue), read at employment services; the 94,300 engagement professionals placed with clients are outside the count under rule 8. |
| Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services | 49% | The filing counts approximately 7,100 employees engaged directly in Protiviti operations (a), the consulting and internal audit business, read at management consulting. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 14,500 full-time internal staff, 7,100 in Protiviti; about 94,300 engagement professionals placed on assignment during 2025, the company's legal employees while on assignment but outside the internal staff count (rule 8); 53.2% of the global workforce female.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Employment Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- ManpowerGroup Inc. (MAN, 25,400 employees)20% now, 32% by 2028
- Korn Ferry (KFY)22% now, 43% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
39 sentences in the filing name AI. Thirty-nine sentences: the company uses a proprietary AI engine to match candidates to job listings and AI for lead generation, is evaluating generative AI tools, and names AI across its risk factors.
- “Artificial Intelligence The Company utilizes a proprietary artificial intelligence ("AI") engine to match candidates to job listings in order to assist talent solutions professionals with quickly providing skilled and experienced contract talent to clients.”
- “In addition, the Company also uses AI to improve lead generation amongst prospective and past clients.”
- “The Company is also currently evaluating how generative AI tools could enhance the business.”
- “Protiviti continues to invest in and deploy AI-enabled solutions by integrating AI into its existing offerings while aiming to enhance its own AI infrastructure.”
- “The firm assists clients in identifying and implementing suitable strategies, platforms and tools customized to their unique objectives, developing and implementing AI strategies and use cases, establishing transparent and secure AI environments, and balancing innovation with risk management.”
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 20214median 0
- Fiscal 20223median 0
- Fiscal 202325median 1
- Fiscal 202426median 4
- Fiscal 202539median 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 | 14,500 | 2026-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 14,700 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 15,000 | 2024-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 16,300 | 2023-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 14,600 | 2022-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 13,000 | 2021-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 16,000 | 2020-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 18,900 | 2019-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 17,200 | 2018-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 16,400 | 2017-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 16,100 | 2016-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 14,000 | 2015-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 13,000 | 2014-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-13 | 12,000 | 2013-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 11,300 | 2012-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 10,400 | 2011-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 9,900 | 2010-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 13,300 | 2009-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 15,300 | 2008-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 13,400 | 2007-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 11,000 | 2006-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 9,200 | 2005-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 7,300 | 2004-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 6,900 | 2003-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 6,300 | 2002-03-18 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 8,300 | 2001-03-23 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 6,300 | 2000-03-08 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 5,200 | 1999-03-17 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 4,300 | 1998-03-13 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 2,900 | 1997-03-21 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 2,100 | 1996-03-25 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 1,600 | 1995-03-08 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-31 | 1,150 | 1994-03-22 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's 7,100 is the Protiviti count; the stated internal staff is 14,500 (rule 2).
- The 94,300 engagement professionals placed with clients are outside the headcount under rule 8, so the employment services pattern covers the internal staff only.
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000315213-26-000006, 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 Robert Half Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 48% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Robert Half 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 Robert Half Inc. employ?
- 14,500 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Robert Half Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Employment Services; by those patterns the work is about 50% desk work, 19% people work and 30% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Robert Half Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 39 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 4, 3, 25, 26 and 39 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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