Company: ALGN
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001097149-25-000016
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Company: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: PRE 14A
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 a focus for our employees. This helps us attract and retain an engaged and productive workforce.

• Balanced and Fair. We welcome differences as opportunities for learning, overcoming challenges and thinking creatively. We serve customers and patients in over 100 countries, making inclusion, diversity and belonging essential for our growth. We are committed to building a workforce of diverse cultural backgrounds and life experiences through fair and balanced policies and practices. A variety of employee resources and standards embody our commitment to inclusion and diversity, including our employee resource groups that focus on the professional development, recruitment, and cultural awareness of underrepresented groups.

• Health, Wellness and Safety. We prioritize the health, safety and well-being of our employees and their families.

◦ We have implemented extensive training programs focused on keeping our employees safe while on our premises and while working remotely.

◦ We offer compensation that is competitive in our industry so employees can feel financially secure and can in turn contribute to the well-being of their families and the economies and communities in which they live.

◦ We offer a wide variety of robust programs and initiatives designed to promote the overall health and welfare of all our employees and their families. Every year, we have a month dedicated to well-being, called Month of Wellness. Throughout the Month of Wellness, employees participate in a variety of activities such as informational sessions and health fairs and receive useful resources aligned to our wellness pillars - mental resilience, physical well-being and healthy living, social/family connections, and financial wellness. This provides our employees with a variety of meaningful ways to embrace wellness and well-being including mindfulness, meditation, nutrition and mental wellness activities, exercise, hikes, yoga, volunteer activities, financial education sessions, social events, and stress management.

We have received numerous awards for our positive work environment and culture. Some of the certifications, awards and recognitions recognized or received in 2024 and 2025 include:

• Best Places to Work for Women in Korea

• Dun & Bradstreet Top Tech Companies to Work for in Israel

• Great Places to Work and Best Places to Work based on our employee-validated great workplaces in the following countries, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Italy, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Vietnam and Raleigh, North Carolina (United States)

• Forbes America’s Dream Employers, America’s Best Midsize Employers, America’s Best Employers for Engineers, America’s Best Employers for New Grads

• Fortune, America’s Most Innovative Companies

• LinkedIn Top Companies, Brazil

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