Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (ROCK)
Metal building products for homes and infrastructure. Read November 11, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 198 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
25%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
29%
Employees, annual report
2,300
Leading staffing pattern
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now25%
- End of 202728%
- End of 202829%
- End of 203029%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 71%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
A building products maker whose filing states a year-end total and a larger count after a later acquisition.
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, 28% at the end of 2027, 29% at the end of 2028, 29% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 29% desk work, 13% people work and 59% 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 71% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
2,300 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Given in words: after an acquisition the company's employees are predominantly in the U.S. and Canada.
The filing: “The Company employed approximately 2,300 employees at December 31, 2025 and seasonally engaged approximately 500 temporary agency staff during the calendar year.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only) | 100% | By description (c): metal building products for homes, greenhouse structures and infrastructure components, sheet metal and structural metal work in one group; no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 5% of the U.S. workforce is represented by unions under two agreements. About 500 temporary agency staff were engaged seasonally. The filing says that after its acquisition of OmniMax it employs approximately 3,300.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK, 23,000 employees)24% now, 28% by 2028
- Ball Corporation (BALL, 16,000 employees)25% now, 29% by 2028
- Greif, Inc. (GEF, 14,000 employees)22% now, 27% by 2028
- Valmont Industries, Inc. (VMI, 10,791 employees)25% now, 30% by 2028
- BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT, 10,400 employees)28% now, 35% by 2028
- Arcosa, Inc. (ACA, 6,390 employees)23% now, 27% by 2028
- Griffon Corporation (GFF, 5,100 employees)26% now, 30% by 2028
- Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (APOG, 4,100 employees)22% now, 25% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
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 20250median 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 | 2,300 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,097 | 2025-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,097 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,117 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,011 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,319 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 1,932 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 1,939 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 2,022 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,311 | 2017-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 2,628 | 2016-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,416 | 2015-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,274 | 2014-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,306 | 2013-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,221 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,054 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,450 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,270 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 3,950 | 2008-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 3,460 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 4,450 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 3,900 | 2005-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 3,800 | 2004-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 3,400 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 3,400 | 2002-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 3,500 | 2001-02-22 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 3,100 | 2000-02-01 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 2,700 | 1999-02-04 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 1,450 | 1998-02-03 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 911 | 1997-01-24 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector took the 3,300 the filing gives for the period after an acquisition; the year-end count is 2,300.
- Seasonal temporary agency staff are outside the count (rule 8).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000912562-26-000025, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.2 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 Gibraltar Industries, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 25% now and 29% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Gibraltar Industries, 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 Gibraltar Industries, Inc. employ?
- 2,300 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Gibraltar Industries, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only); by those patterns the work is about 29% desk work, 13% people work and 59% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Gibraltar Industries, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 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 5.2 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 11, 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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