WW International, Inc. (WW)
Weight management program, mostly part-time. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 16, 2026. Ranked 111 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
26%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
33%
Employees, annual report
3,500
Leading staffing pattern
Other Personal Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now26%
- End of 202731%
- End of 202833%
- End of 203033%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 67%
- Becomes checking a model's work 25%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
WW International states about 3,500 employees in nine countries, a majority part-time, running a weight management program read at other personal services with its digital and clinical platform at software publishers, 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: 26% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 33% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 23% people work and 44% 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 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 25% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states nine countries and no count by country; the data service shows 69% of revenue in the United States.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 3,500 employees in nine countries, a majority of whom were part-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Other Personal Services | 80% | By description (c): the coaches, guides and workshop staff who run the weight management program for members, a majority of the workforce part-time, diet and weight reducing centers, NAICS 812191 in the 8129 group, the SIC 7200 business. |
| Software Publishers | 20% | By description (c): the digital product, app and clinical platform teams behind the subscription offerings (99% of revenue), with the corporate staff, software publishing, NAICS 5132. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,500 employees in nine countries, a majority part-time; in certain international markets coaches and guides are self-employed and not counted; the count has fallen from 10,000 in 2021; the company emerged from bankruptcy in 2025.
What the filing says about AI
27 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes its AI Body Scanner, AI-powered Food Tracker and Recipe Analyzer among its digital offerings and names AI among its risks, in 27 sentences.
- “SUMMARY OF MATERIAL RISKS A summary of the principal factors that create risk in investing in our securities and might cause actual results to differ from expectations is set forth below: our recent emergence from bankruptcy, which could adversely affect our business and relationships and subjects us to risks and uncertainties; competition from other weight management and health and wellness in...”
- “We organize these offerings into three primary membership tiers: First, Core : sits within our "Behavioral" business and provides subscriptions to our digital product offerings, including our #1 doctor-recommended Points Program, Personalized Modes, proprietary Weight Health Score, AI Body Scanner, member-only social network for community support, 12,000+ recipes, and on-demand fitness videos.”
- “These include our AI-powered Food Tracker and Recipe Analyzer, which instantly estimates and tracks ingredients, portions, and Points based upon a photo or recipe's website address.”
- “Our app includes trackers for water, activity, sleep, and weight (and, for members on our Diabetes Program, a tracker for blood sugar) while expanding wearables integration and incorporating our recently launched AI Body Scanner, which, taken together, provides an enhanced, AI-powered, 3D view of a member's body composition changes beyond the scale.”
- “The weight management and health and wellness industries include commercial weight management programs; online and clinical prescription services; weight management services administered in-person or virtually by doctors, dietitians, and other clinicians; the pharmaceutical industry and prescription and over the counter weight management and weight loss injectables, pills, and appetite suppress...”
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 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 202319median 1
- Fiscal 202421median 4
- Fiscal 202527median 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 | 3,500 | 2026-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-28 | 3,700 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-30 | 4,850 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 7,100 | 2023-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2022-01-01 | 7,700 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-01-02 | 10,000 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-28 | 17,000 | 2020-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-29 | 18,000 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-30 | 18,000 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 18,000 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-01-02 | 19,000 | 2016-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2015-01-03 | 21,000 | 2015-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-28 | 25,000 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-29 | 27,000 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 28,000 | 2012-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-01-01 | 26,000 | 2011-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2010-01-02 | 28,000 | 2010-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2009-01-03 | 52,000 | 2009-03-04 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-29 | 49,000 | 2008-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-30 | 47,000 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 46,000 | 2006-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2005-01-01 | 46,000 | 2005-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2004-01-03 | 46,000 | 2004-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-28 | 38,000 | 2003-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-29 | 34,400 | 2002-03-27 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-04-29 | 22,400 | 2000-07-28 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- Under rule 8 the self-employed coaches and guides in certain international markets are not counted, as the filing counts them apart.
- The split between program delivery and software is by description (c); the filing counts no employees by function.
- No count by country is stated; the U.S. share is left null.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-107176, 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 WW International, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 26% now and 33% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce WW International, Inc.'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 WW International, Inc. employ?
- 3,500 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up WW International, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Other Personal Services; by those patterns the work is about 33% desk work, 23% people work and 44% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does WW International, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 27 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 1, 1, 19, 21 and 27 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 November 8, 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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