United Rentals, Inc. (URI)

Equipment rental branches, 28,500 employees, 71% hourly. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed January 28, 2026. Ranked 24 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An equipment rental company whose filing counts 8,200 salaried and 20,300 hourly employees, so the Index's salaried-only figure is replaced and the whole workforce is read at equipment rental.

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: 24% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 34% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 34% desk work, 20% people work and 46% 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 65% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

28,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). Not stated: the filing counts no employees by country; the data service's 91% United States is revenue, with branches in Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

The filing: “Approximately 8,200 of our employees are salaried and approximately 20,300 are hourly.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 8,200 salaried and 20,300 hourly employees (28,500) as of December 31, 2025; about 1,800 represented by unions under agreements at about 175 locations and 26,700 not represented; voluntary turnover 10.8%; about 1.1 million hours of training in 2025.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc (SUNB, 26,016 employees)24% now, 34% by 2028
• Upbound Group, Inc. (UPBD, 12,050 employees)24% now, 35% by 2028
• Herc Holdings Inc. (HRI, 9,600 employees)24% now, 34% by 2028
• EquipmentShare.com Inc. (EQPT, 8,206 employees)24% now, 34% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

12 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says cyber threats are constantly evolving, especially given the advances in and rising use of artificial intelligence, and describes the information technology systems its branches use; it names AI in 12 sentences.

• “Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected include, but are not limited to, the following: the impact of global economic conditions (including inflation, interest rates, supply chain constraints, tariffs, trade wars and sanctions), geopolitical risks (including risks related to international conflicts) and public health crises and epidemics on us, our cust...”
• “Our information technology systems: 5 Table of Contents enable branch personnel to (i) determine equipment availability, (ii) access all equipment within a geographic region and arrange for equipment to be delivered from anywhere in the region directly to the customer, (iii) monitor business activity on a real-time basis and (iv) obtain customized reports on a wide range of operating and financ...”
• “Cyber threats are constantly evolving, especially given the advances in, and the rise of the use of, artificial intelligence, thereby increasing the difficulty of preventing, detecting and successfully defending against them.”
• “We use AI in our business and in our products, and challenges with properly managing its use could result in reputational harm, competitive harm, and legal liability, and adversely affect our business or results of operations.”
• “We incorporate AI solutions into our products, services and features, and we leverage AI in our product development and our operations.”

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 20241median 4
• Fiscal 202512median 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.

Limits of this reading

• The Index's 8,200 is the salaried count alone; the filing's salaried and hourly parts sum to 28,500, which its union and non-union counts confirm (rule 2).
• The U.S. share is not stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001067701-26-000007, 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.