Yelp Inc. (YELP)
Local business review platform, 5,168 employees. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 30 of the 39 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
25%
End of 2028
65%
Employees, annual report
5,168
Leading staffing pattern
Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now25%
- End of 202753%
- End of 202865%
- End of 203071%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 29%
- Becomes checking a model's work 52%
- Handed over with lighter checks 13%
The filing states 5,168 employees of one advertising-funded local search platform, with its team counts cut from the excerpt, so one web portal pattern carries the workforce.
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: 25% now, 53% at the end of 2027, 65% at the end of 2028, 71% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 71% desk work, 24% people work and 6% 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 29% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 52% becomes checking a model's work and 13% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,168 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the workforce is remote across North America and Europe, and the United States is 99% of revenue.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 5,168 employees (including employees on leave) globally across the following teams: Distributed Work We believe that operating on a distributed basis is in the best interests of both Yelp and our employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services | 100% | By description (c): a local business search and review platform funded by advertising, read at web search portals as Zillow and eBay are; the filing's table of teams is cut from the excerpt. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 5,168 employees including those on leave; a fully remote workforce since 2022 with a small office footprint; the filing's count by team is not in the excerpt.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information 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.
- Alphabet (GOOGL, 190,820 employees)25% now, 65% by 2028
- eBay Inc. (EBAY, 12,300 employees)25% now, 65% by 2028
- Clarivate Plc (CLVT, 12,000 employees)29% now, 64% by 2028
- CoStar Group, Inc. (CSGP, 8,441 employees)26% now, 67% by 2028
- Zillow Group, Inc. Class A (ZG, 7,068 employees)26% now, 65% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
73 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its human-generated content is the kind of proprietary data AI search providers need, calls it a monetizable asset, and credits its expertise in AI technologies for its pace of product innovation.
- “We believe that any such inaccuracies or adjustments are immaterial unless otherwise stated. ii Table of Contents RISK FACTOR SUMMARY Our business operations are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including the risks described in the section titled " Risk Factors " included under Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report, that could cause our business, financial condition or operating res...”
- “This collection of high-quality, human-generated content is also the type of proprietary data that is essential to AI search providers, thereby providing a valuable monetizable asset.”
- “Our focus on developer productivity and expertise in AI technologies have allowed us to sustain a high velocity of product innovation.”
- “In addition, we have developed expertise in AI technologies through our use of natural language processing, large language models ("LLMs") and neural network models across our business, from search results and review recommendations to ad delivery to content moderation.”
- “This expertise has positioned us to use AI to enhance the consumer experience and deliver greater value to businesses.”
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 20213median 0
- Fiscal 20225median 0
- Fiscal 202321median 1
- Fiscal 202440median 4
- Fiscal 202573median 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 | 5,168 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 5,116 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,872 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,900 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 4,400 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 3,900 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 5,950 | 2020-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 6,030 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 5,196 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 4,256 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,826 | 2016-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,711 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 1,984 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 1,387 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts employees by team, but the table is cut from the excerpt, so the reading is one pattern by description.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001345016-26-000019, 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 Yelp Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 25% now and 65% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Yelp 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 Yelp Inc. employ?
- 5,168 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Yelp Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services; by those patterns the work is about 71% desk work, 24% people work and 6% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Yelp Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 73 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 3, 5, 21, 40 and 73 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 20, 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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