Seagate Technology Holdings plc (STX)
Disk drive maker, 83% in Asia. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending July 3, 2026, filed August 4, 2026. Ranked 29 of the 48 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
56%
Employees, annual report
30,000
Leading staffing pattern
Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now20%
- End of 202745%
- End of 202856%
- End of 203062%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 38%
- Becomes checking a model's work 49%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states approximately 30,000 full-time employees, 25,000 of them in Asia, in one storage business, so one pattern carries the whole workforce (c).
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: 20% now, 45% at the end of 2027, 56% at the end of 2028, 62% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 62% desk work, 19% people work and 19% 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 38% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 49% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
30,000 employees as of July 3, 2026 (stated). At most 17%: 25,000 of 30,000 employees are in Asia, and the remainder is spread across the United States and other countries.
The filing: “As of July 3, 2026, we employed approximately 30,000 full-time employees worldwide, including approximately 25,000 employees located in Asia.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing | 100% | Hard disk drives and storage systems designed and made in its own factories (NAICS 3341, the SIC 3572 business), one business; the pattern applies abroad under rule 7; by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 30,000 full-time employees worldwide, about 25,000 in Asia; all manufacturing sites certified to ISO 45001.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Apple (AAPL, 166,000 employees)24% now, 53% by 2028
- Dell Technologies Inc. (DELL, 97,000 employees)21% now, 58% by 2028
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE, 67,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
- HP Inc. (HPQ, 55,000 employees)20% now, 56% by 2028
- Western Digital Corporation (WDC, 40,000 employees)20% now, 56% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
15 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as the demand behind its storage products: AI-enabled computing in data centers and the data creation AI-enhanced applications accelerate.
- “We design and manufacture HDDs, storage systems and related solutions serving two principal end markets: Data Center : Cloud and enterprise environments that rely on scalable, high-capacity storage infrastructure to support AI-enabled computing, business-critical applications and other data-intensive workloads. 3 Table of Contents Edge / Internet of Things ("Edge IoT") : Industrial and consumer...”
- “AI-enhanced applications are further accelerating data creation, increasing reliance on historical data sets for advanced reasoning and creating new opportunities to derive value from previously stored information.”
- “These purpose-built solutions are designed to support hyperscale, CSPs, original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and enterprise organizations, providing scalable storage infrastructure for AI-enabled cloud computing, business-critical applications, content delivery, backup, archive and other large-scale workloads.”
- “These customers deploy our products across cloud and enterprise environments supporting AI-enabled cloud infrastructure, private data centers and other business-critical applications.”
- “We continue to invest in manufacturing automation, AI and ML, process improvements and supply chain integration to enhance operational efficiency, increase manufacturing yields and support new product introductions.”
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 20216median 0
- Fiscal 20225median 0
- Fiscal 20236median 1
- Fiscal 202413median 4
- Fiscal 202517median 10
- Fiscal 202615
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | 30,000 | 2026-08-04 | 10-K |
| 2025-06-27 | 30,000 | 2025-08-01 | 10-K |
| 2024-06-28 | 30,000 | 2024-08-02 | 10-K |
| 2023-06-30 | 33,400 | 2023-08-04 | 10-K |
| 2022-07-01 | 40,000 | 2022-08-05 | 10-K |
| 2021-07-02 | 40,000 | 2021-08-06 | 10-K |
| 2020-07-03 | 42,000 | 2020-08-07 | 10-K |
| 2019-06-28 | 40,500 | 2019-08-02 | 10-K |
| 2018-06-29 | 43,000 | 2018-08-03 | 10-K |
| 2017-06-30 | 41,000 | 2017-08-04 | 10-K |
| 2016-07-01 | 45,500 | 2016-08-05 | 10-K |
| 2015-07-03 | 52,350 | 2015-08-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-06-27 | 52,100 | 2014-08-08 | 10-K |
| 2013-06-28 | 53,200 | 2013-08-08 | 10-K |
| 2012-06-29 | 57,900 | 2012-08-09 | 10-K |
| 2011-07-01 | 52,700 | 2011-08-17 | 10-K |
| 2010-07-02 | 52,600 | 2010-08-20 | 10-K |
| 2009-07-03 | 47,000 | 2009-08-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-06-27 | 54,000 | 2008-08-13 | 10-K |
| 2007-06-29 | 54,000 | 2007-08-27 | 10-K |
| 2006-06-30 | 60,000 | 2006-09-11 | 10-K |
| 2005-07-01 | 44,000 | 2005-08-01 | 10-K |
| 2004-07-02 | 40,000 | 2004-08-10 | 10-K |
| 2003-06-27 | 43,000 | 2003-08-21 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- One pattern by description (c): the filing counts employees in Asia, not by kind of work.
- The U.S. share is an upper bound: 25,000 of 30,000 are in Asia.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001137789-26-000159, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Seagate Technology Holdings plc's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 56% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Seagate Technology Holdings plc'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 Seagate Technology Holdings plc employ?
- 30,000 as of July 3, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending July 3, 2026 states. About 17% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Seagate Technology Holdings plc's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 62% desk work, 19% people work and 19% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Seagate Technology Holdings plc's annual report say about AI?
- 15 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 6, 5, 6, 13, 17 and 15 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 3, 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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