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TE Connectivity plc (TEL)
Connector and sensor maker, counted in manufacturing. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-09-26, filed 2025-11-10. Ranked 21 of the 24 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 93,000 people including 13,000 contract employees, with 55,000 in manufacturing, so the electronic component pattern carries most of the workforce (a) with the sensor share by description (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: 17% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 44% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 15% people work and 36% 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 48% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 41% 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
93,000 employees as of 2025-09-26 (stated). The filing states over 50 countries and gives no count by country; revenue by geography puts the Americas at 27%.
The filing: “As of fiscal year end 2025, we employed approximately 93,000 people worldwide, including 13,000 contract employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 85% | By stated counts (a) and description (c): 55,000 of the 93,000 are employed in manufacturing, and the filing's products are connectors and electronic components for transportation and industrial customers, with no count by product line. |
| Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing | 15% | By description (c): the sensor solutions the filing names beside its connectivity products, with no stated count of their own. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 93,000 people including 13,000 contract employees, as the filing counts them; approximately 55,000 employed in manufacturing; employees in over 50 countries and about 150 nationalities; over 40% women; an OSHA total recordable incident rate of 0.06 in fiscal 2025.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component 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.
- Amphenol Corporation (APH, 170,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Flex Ltd. (FLEX, 149,686 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
- Jabil Inc. (JBL, 135,000 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
- Intel Corp. (INTC, 85,100 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
17 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 17 sentences: data centers enabling AI among the markets its connectors serve, connectivity solutions for AI and machine learning applications, and the move to AI and cloud applications as a favorable demand trend.
- “As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal, and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.”
- “Additionally, we deliver a range of connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things, smartphones, tablet computers, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence/machine learning applications to help our customers meet their current challenges and future innovations. ● Automation and connected living (27% of segment's net sales)- Our products are used in factory and warehouse automation and pr...”
- “The overall market trends of increased data connectivity and continued movement to artificial intelligence ("AI") and cloud applications have had a favorable impact on demand.”
- “The continued creation, development, and advancement of new technologies such as AI, blockchain, quantum computing, data analytics, 3-D printing, robotics, sensor technology, data storage, neural networks, and augmented reality, as well as other technologies in the future that are not foreseeable today, continue to transform our processes, products, and services.”
- “Our strategy, value creation model, operating model, and innovation ecosystem have important technological elements and certain of our products and offerings are based on technological advances, including AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, and the Internet of Things.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-26 | 93,000 | 2025-11-10 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-27 | 87,000 | 2024-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-29 | 90,000 | 2023-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 92,000 | 2022-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-24 | 89,000 | 2021-11-09 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-25 | 82,000 | 2020-11-10 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-27 | 78,000 | 2019-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-28 | 80,000 | 2018-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-29 | 78,000 | 2017-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 75,000 | 2016-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-25 | 72,000 | 2015-11-10 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-26 | 83,000 | 2014-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-27 | 84,000 | 2013-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-28 | 88,000 | 2012-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 95,000 | 2011-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-24 | 89,000 | 2010-11-10 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-25 | 78,000 | 2009-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-26 | 96,000 | 2008-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-28 | 94,000 | 2007-12-14 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The 93,000 includes 13,000 contract employees, as the filing counts them (rule 8).
- The split between connectors and sensors rests on description (c); the filing counts manufacturing employees but not product lines.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-25-109150, 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 TE Connectivity plc's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 44% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce TE Connectivity 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 TE Connectivity plc employ?
- 93,000 as of September 26, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 26, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up TE Connectivity plc's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 49% desk work, 15% people work and 36% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does TE Connectivity plc's annual report say about AI?
- 17 sentences in the filing name AI. 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 1, 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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