Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAV)

Network test instruments and optical components maker. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 27, 2026, filed August 13, 2026. Ranked 177 of the 238 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Viavi states about 4,100 employees and nothing by segment or country; its network test and assurance business is read at measuring and control instruments and its optical security and performance products at electronic components, by description.

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: 35% now, 47% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 52% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 52% desk work, 17% people work and 31% 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 47% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 46% 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

4,100 employees as of June 27, 2026 (stated). The filing's excerpt states no count by country; the data service shows 45% of revenue in the Americas, 31% in Asia Pacific and 24% in EMEA.

The filing: “Human Capital Management: The VIAVI culture is made up of the contributions of our approximately 4,100 employees (the excerpt cuts the sentence after approximately; the collector's one candidate and the data service agree on 4,100).”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,100 employees, up from 3,600 with the fiscal 2026 acquisition; hybrid working under a Flexible Work policy; a total recordable injury rate of 0.19 per 100 full-time workers; no hourly, union or country counts in the excerpt; fiscal year ends late June or early July.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments 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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Medtronic plc (MDT, 95,000 employees)33% now, 46% by 2028
• Emerson Electric Co. (EMR, 71,000 employees)36% now, 51% by 2028
• Danaher Corporation (DHR, 60,000 employees)34% now, 48% by 2028
• GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC, 54,000 employees)37% now, 53% by 2028
• L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX, 45,000 employees)35% now, 51% by 2028
• Rockwell Automation, Inc. (ROK, 26,000 employees)42% now, 61% by 2028
• Garmin Ltd. (GRMN, 23,000 employees)36% now, 53% by 2028
• AMETEK, Inc. (AME, 22,500 employees)32% now, 45% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

15 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its high-speed optical and Ethernet test solutions support network equipment for AI and high-performance computing workloads, that its AIOps portfolio uses AI, machine learning and agentic AI to automate network operations, and that the buildout of AI data centers drives demand for its products, in 15 sentences.

• “Our high-speed optical and Ethernet solutions address lab, production and manufacturing environments to ensure that network equipment is designed and built at peak performance to support artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.”
• “Our AIOps solutions portfolio leverages AI, machine learning and big data analytics and incorporates Agentic AI technology to automate and enhance end-to-end, multi-domain network operations and automation.”
• “The rapid buildout of AI data centers and HPC is driving higher speed optical transceivers and increasing number of data center interconnects (DCI) and multi-fiber connectivity.”
• “The industry is conducting research to define the path to 6G along vectors including AI across all network functions, new frequency bands, integrated sensing and communications, multiple access and ray tracing.”
• “A range of core technologies have emerged to enable this transformation, including AI-native architectures and open, disaggregated and interoperable networks.”

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 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20233median 1
• Fiscal 20246median 4
• Fiscal 20258median 10
• Fiscal 202615

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 headcount sentence is cut in the excerpt; the count 4,100 is the collector's single candidate and the data service's figure for the fiscal year end.
• The split between instruments and optical components is by description (c); the data service's table shows product and service revenue, not segments.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-056765, 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.