Company: GHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000104889-25-000022
Chunk: 177

Company: Graham Holdings Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 177
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 is independently operated by a third party and anonymity is ensured upon request. Reports are forwarded to appropriate individuals within the Company for investigation. Every allegation is professionally and confidentially handled.

Compensation and Benefits.   The Company offers strong compensation and benefits programs to its employees. Depending on the business unit, employee benefits may include healthcare and insurance benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, paid time off, family leave, adoption assistance plans, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance programs, transportation benefits programs, a matching gifts program, bonuses, long-term incentive compensation plans, Company-paid pension contributions and a 401(k) Plan. The Company offers discounts on courses and programs offered by Purdue Global to all full-time employees through the Gift of Knowledge Program. The Company also offers a small group of eligible employees certain equity-based grants under the Company’s Incentive Compensation Plan with vesting and performance conditions to facilitate the attraction, retention, motivation and reward of key employees and to align their interests with those of the Company’s stockholders.

Training and Talent Development.  The Company is committed to the continued growth and development of its employees across all businesses. While development opportunities vary across businesses, the Company seeks to offer a variety of learning opportunities, including virtual learning, on-the-job mentoring and coaching. U.S. employees complete core harassment and discrimination training and ethics training and all employees are offered specific skills training designed to support the growth and advancement of their professional skills.

For example, at GMG, employees have access to several development and training programs, including Boss School, a management training session, PROduce! for high potential producers to enhance their innovative mindset and leadership skills, and access to several other resources that provide individual learning and group activities on a variety of leadership and workplace collaboration topics. In 2024, GMG continued with its organizational culture improvement program called Up Your Culture, providing all people leaders with monthly workshops and coaching sessions to effectively lead their teams. Additionally, leaders have access to tools in their survey management 

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platform that provide actionable tactics that can be traced and aligned with employee survey score outcomes. At Joyce/Dayton, leadership teams attended a multi-day training program to focus on strategic planning. Executives attended training to focus on how to work together most effectively. Kaplan offers personalized and immersive learning experiences to support employees, managers, and leaders in building capabilities and driving personal and business growth. In 2024, Kaplan International Australia & New Zealand ran a leadership basics training for the Admission team leaders in Kaplan Business School. At Hoover, they held their Annual