Zebra Technologies Corporation (ZBRA)

Barcode printers, scanners and mobile computers, 44% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 88 of the 135 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Zebra states approximately 10,700 employees globally at December 31, 2025, a majority in sales and technical roles, 44% in the U.S. and 2,790 of them engineers, making and selling enterprise mobile computers, printers and scanners with no count by segment, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at computer and peripheral equipment 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: 21% now, 45% at the end of 2027, 57% at the end of 2028, 62% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 62% desk work, 19% people work and 19% 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 38% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 49% 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

10,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states 44% of its employee population residing in the U.S., across 57 countries.

The filing: “Human Capital As of December 31, 2025, the Company had approximately 10,700 employees globally, with a majority in sales and technical roles.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: A majority in sales and technical roles; approximately 2,790 engineers and innovation and design experts, a function count kept inside; 129 facilities in 57 countries; no union share is stated.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computer and Peripheral 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.

• Apple (AAPL, 166,000 employees)25% now, 53% by 2028
• Dell Technologies Inc. (DELL, 97,000 employees)22% now, 58% by 2028
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE, 67,000 employees)22% now, 57% by 2028
• HP Inc. (HPQ, 55,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Western Digital Corporation (WDC, 40,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Seagate Technology Holdings plc (STX, 30,000 employees)21% now, 57% by 2028
• Xerox Holdings Corporation (XRX, 22,900 employees)23% now, 50% by 2028
• NetApp, Inc. (NTAP, 11,700 employees)22% now, 58% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

24 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the secular trends driving workflow transformation, on-device and cloud-based AI augmenting frontline worker productivity, and AI streamlining frontline workflows with vision, audio, location and RFID.

• “The need to transform workflows is being driven by secular trends in technology, which include the creation of digital twins, cloud-based data analytics, automation, mobility, computer vision, artificial intelligence and machine learning.”
• “Additionally, artificial intelligence is further streamlining frontline workflows by providing insights and delivering actions using on-device vision, audio, location and RFID to automate parts of traditional workflows.”
• “Leveraging a combination of on-device and cloud-based AI, smart context-aware software companions are beginning to augment worker productivity, providing real-time assistance to get work done more quickly and accurately.”
• “Connected Frontline The Connected Frontline segment is focused on unifying teams, customers, and AI agents to deliver enhanced frontline experiences.”
• “These offerings are typically delivered through cloud-based software subscriptions and leverage big data, artificial intelligence, and mobile and web applications to provide customers with real-time visibility and actionable insights about their business.”

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 20216median 0
• Fiscal 20223median 0
• Fiscal 202312median 1
• Fiscal 202417median 4
• Fiscal 202524median 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.

Limits of this reading

• No count by segment or kind of work beyond the engineers: the one pattern is by description (c); the data service's segment table is for fiscal 2024.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-007668, 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.