Vestis Corporation (VSTS)
Uniform rental and laundry services. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 3, 2025, filed December 2, 2025. Ranked 88 of the 95 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
14%
End of 2028
18%
Employees, annual report
18,150
Leading staffing pattern
Drycleaning and Laundry Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now14%
- End of 202717%
- End of 202818%
- End of 203018%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 80%
- Becomes checking a model's work 13%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
18,150 teammates, 10,750 of them union members, at laundry plants, satellite plants and distribution centers in the U.S. and Canada, with 1,900 at garment plants and a distribution center in Mexico.
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: 14% now, 17% at the end of 2027, 18% at the end of 2028, 18% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 18% desk work, 12% people work and 70% 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 80% 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
18,150 employees as of October 3, 2025 (stated). The filing says teammates are primarily based in the United States, Canada and Mexico and counts 1,900 in Mexico; no U.S. total is stated; 91% of revenue is in the United States and 9% in Canada.
The filing: “Our team consists of approximately 18,150 teammates who operate over 325 sites including laundry plants, satellite plants, distribution centers and manufacturing plants.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Drycleaning and Laundry Services | 90% | The uniform and workplace supplies rental business the filing describes, run from over 325 laundry plants, satellite plants and distribution centers in the U.S. and Canada, read at laundry services by description (c); industrial launderers sit in this group, and the route drivers and distribution staff are inside it. |
| Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing | 10% | About 1,900 personnel at the manufacturing plants and a distribution center in Mexico (a), the garment plants that supply the rental business. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 18,150 teammates; approximately 10,750 represented by labor unions under over 200 collective bargaining agreements (59%); 1,900 at plants and a distribution center in Mexico; a multi-year business transformation and restructuring plan approved in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 including planned workforce reduction actions, recorded as the filing states it.
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
What the filing says about AI
8 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in eight sentences, in its risk factors: it may use artificial intelligence, including generative AI and machine learning, to support business operations, and such use could bring reputational, competitive and legal risks.
- “We may use artificial intelligence in our business, which could result in reputational harm, competitive harm, and legal liability.”
- “We may use artificial intelligence in our business, which could result in reputational harm, competitive harm, and legal liability, and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.”
- “We may leverage artificial intelligence, including generative artificial intelligence and machine learning, to support our business operations.”
- “We may in the future also use products and services from third parties that use integrated artificial intelligence technology.”
- “Our competitors or other third parties may incorporate artificial intelligence into their operational processes more quickly or more successfully than us, which could have a material adverse effect on our competitive position, reputation and 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | 18,150 | 2025-12-02 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-27 | 19,600 | 2024-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-29 | 20,000 | 2023-12-21 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is not stated; the Mexico count is the only count by country.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-25-054597, 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 Vestis Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 14% now and 18% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Vestis 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 Vestis Corporation employ?
- 18,150 as of October 3, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending October 3, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Vestis Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Drycleaning and Laundry Services; by those patterns the work is about 18% desk work, 12% people work and 70% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Vestis Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 8 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2023 to 2025 name it in 0, 0 and 8 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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