Whirlpool Corporation (WHR)
Home appliances, 41,000 employees, 39% U.S.. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 11, 2026. Ranked 25 of the 54 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
41,000
Leading staffing pattern
Household Appliance Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202725%
- End of 202828%
- End of 203029%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 71%
- Becomes checking a model's work 23%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
The filing states the total and the U.S. share, nothing by segment, so the whole workforce takes the household appliance pattern 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: 17% now, 25% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 29% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 29% desk work, 17% people work and 54% 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 71% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 23% 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
41,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 39% within the United States; the largest populations outside it are in Brazil and Mexico.
The filing: “On December 31, 2025, Whirlpool employed approximately 41,000 employees across 27 countries, with 39% located within the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Household Appliance Manufacturing | 100% | A maker of laundry, refrigeration, cooking and dishwashing appliances (Refrigeration 31% of revenue, Laundry 28%, Cooking 24%, Dishwashing 8%); the filing states no count by segment or kind of work, so one appliance pattern by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 41,000 employees in 27 countries, 39% in the United States, the largest populations abroad in Brazil and Mexico; over 29,000 (about 70%) answered the engagement survey; certain business processes moved to a third-party service provider in 2025.
What the filing says about AI
11 sentences in the filing name AI. Eleven sentences: the risks of implementing generative, agentic and other forms of AI in its business and products, disruption from AI adoption, and AI's effect on intellectual property protection.
- “Implementation of generative, agentic and other forms of artificial intelligence ("AI") into our business and products poses risks, such as the misuse of such AI by personnel or vendors, or unintended consequences of such AI, that have and could result in reputational harm.”
- “In addition, the adoption of AI technologies may bring challenges in terms of disruption to both our business model and our existing technology and products.”
- “In addition, advances in and growing adoption of AI technology may exacerbate intellectual property risks, including the risk that existing intellectual property laws and rights may not provide adequate protection given advances in AI technology.”
- “AI may also increase the risk of inadvertent disclosure of Whirlpool's trade secrets and other confidential information as well as the risk that Whirlpool inadvertently infringes upon others' intellectual property rights.”
- “The use of AI technologies could lead to the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive, proprietary, or confidential information, inadvertent infringement of intellectual property owned by third parties, and could lead to new potential cyberattack methods for third parties. 20 Unauthorized access has in the past and could in the future disrupt our business, result in the loss of assets, expose the c...”
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 20246median 4
- Fiscal 202511median 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 | 41,000 | 2026-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 44,000 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 59,000 | 2024-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 61,000 | 2023-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 69,000 | 2022-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 78,000 | 2021-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 77,000 | 2020-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 92,000 | 2019-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 92,000 | 2018-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 93,000 | 2017-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 97,000 | 2016-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 100,000 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 69,000 | 2014-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 68,000 | 2013-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 68,000 | 2012-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 71,000 | 2011-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 67,000 | 2010-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 70,000 | 2009-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 73,000 | 2008-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 73,000 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 66,000 | 2006-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 68,000 | 2005-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 68,000 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 68,000 | 2003-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 59,000 | 2002-03-05 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 61,000 | 2001-03-16 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 61,000 | 2000-03-20 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 59,000 | 1999-03-22 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 61,000 | 1998-03-20 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 48,000 | 1997-03-21 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 45,435 | 1996-03-15 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 39,000 | 1995-03-17 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment or kind of work: one appliance pattern by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000106640-26-000009, 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 Whirlpool Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Whirlpool 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 Whirlpool Corporation employ?
- 41,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 39% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Whirlpool Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Household Appliance Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 29% desk work, 17% people work and 54% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Whirlpool Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 11 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 5, 6 and 11 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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