UniFirst Corporation (UNF)
Industrial laundries, one pattern. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending August 30, 2025, filed October 29, 2025. Ranked 171 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
13%
End of 2028
17%
Employees, annual report
16,000
Leading staffing pattern
Drycleaning and Laundry Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now13%
- End of 202716%
- End of 202817%
- End of 203017%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 81%
- Becomes checking a model's work 13%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states 16,000 team partners in the industrial laundry and facility services business with no count by kind of work, so one pattern carries the whole 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: 13% now, 16% at the end of 2027, 17% at the end of 2028, 17% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 17% desk work, 12% people work and 71% 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 81% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 13% 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
16,000 employees as of August 30, 2025 (stated). Not stated; U.S. revenue is 92%, with Europe and Canada at 8%.
The filing: “As of August 30, 2025, we employed approximately 16,000 team partners across our operations.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Drycleaning and Laundry Services | 100% | The filing describes one business, the industrial laundry and facility services industry, with its route, plant and nuclear garment decontamination operations, and counts no employees by kind of work, so industrial launderers (in the laundry services group) carry the whole workforce by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Less than 1% of U.S. employees under a collective bargaining agreement; a leadership development program for the industrial laundry and facility services industry; no hourly or part-time count stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Drycleaning and Laundry Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Cintas Corporation (CTAS, 48,100 employees)15% now, 21% by 2028
- Vestis Corporation (VSTS, 18,150 employees)14% now, 18% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-30 | 16,000 | 2025-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2024-08-31 | 16,000 | 2024-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2023-08-26 | 16,000 | 2023-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2022-08-27 | 14,000 | 2022-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2021-08-28 | 14,000 | 2021-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2020-08-29 | 14,000 | 2020-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2019-08-31 | 14,000 | 2019-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2018-08-25 | 14,000 | 2018-10-22 | 10-K |
| 2017-08-26 | 14,000 | 2017-10-25 | 10-K |
| 2016-08-27 | 13,000 | 2016-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2015-08-29 | 12,000 | 2015-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2014-08-30 | 12,000 | 2014-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2013-08-31 | 11,500 | 2013-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2012-08-25 | 11,000 | 2012-10-24 | 10-K |
| 2011-08-27 | 11,000 | 2011-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2010-08-28 | 10,000 | 2010-10-27 | 10-K |
| 2009-08-29 | 9,700 | 2009-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2008-08-30 | 11,000 | 2008-11-13 | 10-K |
| 2007-08-25 | 10,000 | 2007-11-08 | 10-K |
| 2006-08-26 | 9,800 | 2006-11-09 | 10-K |
| 2005-08-27 | 9,200 | 2005-11-10 | 10-K |
| 2004-08-28 | 9,000 | 2004-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2003-08-30 | 7,900 | 2003-11-28 | 10-K |
| 2002-08-31 | 7,800 | 2002-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2001-08-25 | 7,500 | 2001-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2000-08-26 | 7,500 | 2000-11-27 | 10-K |
| 1999-08-28 | 7,500 | 1999-11-24 | 10-K |
| 1998-08-29 | 7,300 | 1998-11-25 | 10-K |
| 1997-08-30 | 7,000 | 1997-11-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-08-31 | 6,600 | 1996-11-27 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-08-26 | 6,000 | 1995-11-22 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-08-27 | 5,500 | 1994-11-23 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by kind of work: the garment plants, the first aid business and the nuclear decontamination facilities stay inside the laundry pattern for lack of a count.
- The data service's segment table (one line at 100%) is not usable; the U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-25-256222, 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 UniFirst Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 13% now and 17% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce UniFirst Corporation'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 UniFirst Corporation employ?
- 16,000 as of August 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending August 30, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up UniFirst Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Drycleaning and Laundry Services; by those patterns the work is about 17% desk work, 12% people work and 71% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does UniFirst Corporation'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 5.1 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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