Company: ADP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000607
Chunk: 9

Company: AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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 chair and independent board committees                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ✓ | Stockholder ability to call special meetings                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| ✓ | Stockholder right to act by written consent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ✓ | Annual board assessment of corporate governance best practices                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

| ✓ | Significant board role in strategy and risk oversight, including annual strategy and product session                                  |
| ✓ | Non-employee director pay limits and stock ownership requirements                                                                     |
| ✓ | Annual succession planning review                                                                                                     |
| ✓ | Director orientation and continuing education for directors                                                                           |
| ✓ | Active stockholder engagement to better understand investor perspectives                                                              |
| ✓ | Comprehensive corporate social responsibility reporting detailing impact, philanthropic, cybersecurity and privacy governance matters |
| ✓ | Executive sessions of independent directors held regularly                                                                            |

We firmly believe that creating sustainable long-term value for stockholders is enabled through such strong governance practices and open dialogue with stockholders through continuous direct engagement. Our fiscal year and calendar year 2025 corporate governance actions and enhancements include:

| ✓Refreshed our Corporate Governance Principles and committee charters to reflect a rebalance of oversight responsibilities among the Board, Audit Committee, Corporate Development and Technology Committee (“CDTC”) and Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee (May 2025) |     | ✓Formalized our CDTC, which previously functioned in an advisory capacity, to a standing committee with defined duties, including oversight of product security and resiliency (May 2025) |
| ✓Held an Investor Day (June 2025) outlining ADP’s vision and strategic priorities                                                                                                                                                                                             |     | ✓Ongoing board refreshment with the nomination of two new board nominees with decades of strategic, operational and financial leadership (September 2025)                                 |

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| 2025 Proxy Statement Summary |

Fiscal Year 2025 Stockholder Engagement

| ✓Invited stockholders representing nearly half of our shares outstanding to discuss our strategy, corporate governance and executive compensation programs, and held meetings with stockholders representing over 20% of our shares outstanding |     | ✓Over 80 meetings held with top-50 stockholders to discuss business performance and seek overall feedback |

Our Stockholder and Stakeholder Engagement Process We value stockholder engagement and feedback as we strive to deliver strong financial performance and sustained value creation for our investors. Our ongoing investor engagement program includes outreach focused on the company’s strategy, corporate governance and executive compensation programs. In addition to management, many of these engagements