Tapestry, Inc. (TPR)
Handbag and accessories stores, design offices. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 27, 2026, filed August 13, 2026. Ranked 7 of the 94 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
26%
End of 2028
36%
Employees, annual report
20,600
Leading staffing pattern
Jewelry, Luggage, and Leather Goods Retailers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now26%
- End of 202734%
- End of 202836%
- End of 203037%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 62%
- Becomes checking a model's work 23%
- Handed over with lighter checks 14%
An accessories company whose filing counts its retail employees and part-time employees, so the store pattern is counted and the remainder is read as the brand offices.
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: 26% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 37% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 37% desk work, 25% people work and 38% 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 62% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 23% becomes checking a model's work and 14% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
20,600 employees as of June 27, 2026 (stated). No count by country is stated; 59% of fiscal 2026 revenue was in North America and 17% in Greater China.
The filing: “Employees As of June 27, 2026, the Company employed approximately 20,600 employees globally.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Jewelry, Luggage, and Leather Goods Retailers | 82% | By (a): the filing states that approximately 16,800 of 20,600 employees worked in retail locations, 82%; the Coach (86% of fiscal 2026 revenue) and Kate Spade stores sell handbags, leather goods and accessories, luggage and leather goods retail in this group. |
| Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers | 18% | By (a) and description: the 3,800 employees not in retail locations design, source, distribute and sell the brands to wholesale customers, read at the apparel and accessories wholesale pattern, where a design and sourcing company's offices sit; no corporate count is stated (rule 6). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 20,600 employees, excluding seasonal and temporary employees; about 16,800 work in retail locations, of whom 8,000 are part-time (about 39% of the total); about 2,400 employees including nearly all store managers received an annual equity award in fiscal 2026; no strike or work stoppage in the company's history.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Jewelry, Luggage, and Leather Goods Retailers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Signet Jewelers Limited (SIG, 27,097 employees)26% now, 34% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
23 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it continued to advance its AI, including predictive, generative and agentic models and machine learning, across data analytics, planning, marketing, customer acquisition, personalization, pricing and product creation, and names the shift to digital engagement among its competitive factors.
- “Tapestry, Inc.'s actual results could differ materially from the results contemplated by these forward-looking statements and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, estimates and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations due to a number of factors, including those discussed in the sections of this Form 10-K filing entitled "Risk Factors"...”
- “During fiscal 2026, we continued to advance our artificial intelligence including predictive, generative and agentic models, as well as machine learning across key areas such as data analytics, planning, marketing, customer acquisition, personalization, pricing and product creation.”
- “Competition is based on a number of factors, including, without limitation, the following: our competitors may develop new products or product categories that are more popular with our customers; anticipating and responding in a timely fashion to changing consumer demands and shopping preferences, including the ever-increasing shift to digital brand engagement, social media communications, and...”
- “Furthermore, customers are increasingly using AI shopping assistant tools to discover products, compare options, and make purchase decisions.”
- “Use of these AI tools could transform commerce, including in ways that we fail to anticipate, and affect our ability to efficiently attract potential customers to our digital platforms and retain our customer base.”
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 20233median 1
- Fiscal 20243median 4
- Fiscal 20256median 10
- Fiscal 202623
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-27 | 20,600 | 2026-08-13 | 10-K |
| 2025-06-28 | 19,000 | 2025-08-14 | 10-K |
| 2024-06-29 | 18,600 | 2024-08-15 | 10-K |
| 2023-07-01 | 18,500 | 2023-08-17 | 10-K |
| 2022-07-02 | 18,100 | 2022-08-18 | 10-K |
| 2021-07-03 | 16,400 | 2021-08-19 | 10-K |
| 2020-06-27 | 17,300 | 2020-08-13 | 10-K |
| 2019-06-29 | 21,000 | 2019-08-15 | 10-K |
| 2018-06-30 | 20,800 | 2018-08-16 | 10-K |
| 2017-07-01 | 14,400 | 2017-08-18 | 10-K |
| 2016-07-02 | 15,100 | 2016-08-19 | 10-K |
| 2015-06-27 | not read | 2015-08-14 | 10-K |
| 2014-06-28 | 17,200 | 2014-08-15 | 10-K |
| 2013-06-29 | 17,200 | 2013-08-22 | 10-K |
| 2012-06-30 | 18,000 | 2012-08-22 | 10-K |
| 2011-07-02 | 15,000 | 2011-08-19 | 10-K |
| 2010-07-03 | 13,000 | 2010-08-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-06-27 | 12,000 | 2009-08-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-06-28 | 12,000 | 2008-08-21 | 10-K |
| 2007-06-30 | 10,100 | 2007-08-23 | 10-K |
| 2006-07-01 | 7,500 | 2006-08-25 | 10-K |
| 2005-07-02 | 5,700 | 2005-09-09 | 10-K |
| 2004-07-03 | 4,200 | 2004-09-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-06-28 | 3,200 | 2003-09-18 | 10-K |
| 2002-06-29 | 2,900 | 2002-09-20 | 10-K |
| 2001-06-30 | 2,700 | 2001-09-21 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The retail share rests on a stated count (a); the office share is the remainder read by description.
- The U.S. share is not stated; North America holds 59% of revenue.
- Seasonal and temporary employees are excluded from the filing's count, as it states.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001116132-26-000018, 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 Tapestry, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 26% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Tapestry, 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 Tapestry, Inc. employ?
- 20,600 as of June 27, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending June 27, 2026 states.
- What kinds of work make up Tapestry, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Jewelry, Luggage, and Leather Goods Retailers; by those patterns the work is about 37% desk work, 25% people work and 38% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Tapestry, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 23 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 0, 0, 3, 3, 6 and 23 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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