Company: ALGN
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001097149-25-000021
Chunk: 28

Company: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 28
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, and respecting the rights of individuals to return to their home countries.

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| Employees |

Prioritizing our employees' development, wellness and safety, and valuing our employees' differences and perspectives

We believe our success is driven by a global workforce characterized by differing backgrounds, beliefs, perspectives and skills. We also strongly believe that the motivation, support, safety, and well-being of employees is fundamental to our success. Our employees must comply with our Code and are regularly asked to read and acknowledge their obligations under the Code. We also strengthen our organization by creating and following values that honor our employees:

• Authenticity and Integrity. We are committed to a culture in which we conduct our business ethically, responsibly and transparently and inform our employees of our expectations through well-designed policies and procedures that start with our Code.

• Listening and Empathizing. We encourage active listening and development of healthy and respectful relationships in which employees can openly and honestly express their thoughts, opinions, hopes and concerns for the betterment of the organization and all its stakeholders. We value our employees' collective voices and as a result utilize a continuous employee listening strategy that includes globally managed pulse surveys, employee lifecycle surveys, and a self-service feature to support listening efforts for our global employees have a continuous listening strategy. We leverage survey results and comments to seek ways to make positive changes throughout the organization.

• Developing our Talent. We have confidence in our employees and encourage them to actively manage their own careers and development using our learning and development resources. Align University Online enables our global employee population to access a diverse portfolio of approximately two thousand self-directed courses in up to 80 languages. We also offer a full suite of custom leadership development programs, beginning with aspiring leaders, continuing with managers and directors, and culminating with executive development opportunities. Our global initiative, Voyage, offers a set of tools, resources and a new mindset, empowering employees to start thinking differently about career growth by embracing development opportunities in new and sometimes unexpected ways. Voyage helps employees experience their career through four distinct lenses: Self, Networks, Experience and Skills. Since its launch in 2022, 45% of our employee population has interacted with Voyage with over 140,000 total visits. In addition to our navigation site, we host two Voyage Set Sail weeks annually, where we offer experiential learning for

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individuals and teams utilizing activities that helps keep development as a focus for our employees. This helps us attract and retain