Tennant Company (TNC)
Floor cleaning machine maker, 4,484, 40% U.S. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 51 of the 222 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
42%
Employees, annual report
4,484
Leading staffing pattern
Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202736%
- End of 202842%
- End of 203046%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 55%
- Becomes checking a model's work 36%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states 4,484 employees by region, 40% in the U.S., of one cleaning machine business with nothing counted by function, so one machinery pattern carries the workforce.
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: 21% now, 36% at the end of 2027, 42% at the end of 2028, 46% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 46% desk work, 18% 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 55% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 36% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,484 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states approximately 40.4% of employees in the U.S.; by region, 2,327 are in the Americas, 1,699 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 458 in Asia Pacific.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 4,484 employees worldwide, of which approximately 40.4% are located in the U.S.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): floor cleaning machines designed, made and serviced by its people, commercial and service industry machinery under the SIC code; the filing counts no employees by function. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 4,484 employees: 2,327 in the Americas, 1,699 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 458 in Asia Pacific; 40.4% in the U.S.; 1,076 women.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Commercial and Service Industry Machinery 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.
- The Middleby Corporation (MIDD, 8,826 employees)20% now, 40% by 2028
- Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI, 6,600 employees)33% now, 50% by 2028
- Crane NXT, Co. (CXT, 4,800 employees)17% now, 34% 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 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 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 | 4,484 | 2026-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 4,632 | 2025-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,457 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,299 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | not read | 2022-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | not read | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 4,400 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,300 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,300 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 3,236 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,164 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,087 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,931 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,816 | 2013-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2012-02-24 | 2,865 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,793 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,786 | 2010-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,002 | 2009-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 2,774 | 2008-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,653 | 2007-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 2,496 | 2006-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 2,474 | 2005-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 2,351 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 2,380 | 2003-03-25 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 2,387 | 2002-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 2,391 | 2001-03-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 2,241 | 2000-03-10 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | not read | 1999-03-25 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | not read | 1998-03-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | not read | 1997-03-25 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | not read | 1996-03-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | not read | 1995-03-23 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- Service and parts revenue is 41% of the total, but the filing counts no service employees apart, so they stay inside the machinery pattern.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000097134-26-000008, 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 Tennant Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 42% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Tennant Company'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 Tennant Company employ?
- 4,484 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 40% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Tennant Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 46% desk work, 18% 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 Tennant Company'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, 1, 1 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 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 20, 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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