Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT)
Data center power and cooling equipment maker. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 22 of the 57 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
18%
End of 2028
35%
Employees, annual report
34,000
Leading staffing pattern
Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now18%
- End of 202730%
- End of 202835%
- 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 30%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
The filing states approximately 34,000 employees at manufacturing facilities and service centers across three regions, counting 5,000 field service engineers (a), so services take 15% and manufacturing the rest by description (c).
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: 18% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 35% at the end of 2028, 37% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 37% desk work, 16% 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 62% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 30% 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
34,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; the Americas segment is 58% of sales.
The filing: “Human Capital Resources As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 34,000 full-time and part-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical Equipment Manufacturing | 85% | Power, thermal and rack equipment for data centers made at facilities in the Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA (NAICS 3353, the industry hint electrical equipment), the remainder after the stated service count; by description (c). |
| Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance | 15% | Approximately 5,000 field services engineers and 400 technical support team members, stated counts (a), about 15% of 34,000, servicing installed equipment (NAICS 8112). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 34,000 full-time and part-time employees; about 5,000 field services engineers and 400 technical support team members; over 2,500 salaried employees hired in 2025 in engineering, services and operations.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Electrical Equipment 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.
- Eaton Corporation plc (ETN, 97,303 employees)17% now, 38% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
28 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as the market its products serve: rack-scale designs for AI compute, and power and cooling for data centers running AI training and inference.
- “Vertiv leads with first-to-market designs engineered for next-gen rack-scale artificial intelligence ("AI") compute - enabling transformation and scale to stay multiple compute generations ahead.”
- “These comprehensive offerings are integral to the reliable operation of technologies used to support applications that include AI, e-commerce, online banking, file sharing, video on-demand, energy storage, wireless communications, Internet of Things and online gaming.”
- “Data Centers : Data centers are purpose-built facilities that enable the processing, storage, and distribution of data across both traditional workloads and high-density compute, including AI training and inference.”
- “This portion of the industry is growing rapidly with drivers such as adoption of cloud-based data services and AI workloads.”
- “Examples of companies in this space include Digital Realty, Equinix, Compass, and QTS. 7 Table of contents Neocloud: These providers deliver AI-optimized cloud infrastructure as a service, offering high-performance compute environments designed for AI and accelerated workloads.”
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 20235median 1
- Fiscal 20247median 4
- Fiscal 202528median 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 | 34,000 | 2026-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 31,000 | 2025-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 27,000 | 2024-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 27,000 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 24,000 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 20,972 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 19,800 | 2020-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | not read | 2019-03-13 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The manufacturing share is by description (c): the filing counts the service engineers but not plant or office employees.
- No count by country; the U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001674101-26-000008, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Vertiv Holdings Co's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 35% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Vertiv Holdings Co'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 Vertiv Holdings Co employ?
- 34,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Vertiv Holdings Co's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Electrical Equipment Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 37% desk work, 16% people work and 46% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Vertiv Holdings Co's annual report say about AI?
- 28 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 5, 7 and 28 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 2, 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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