Company: DNLI
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001714899-25-000066
Chunk: 176

Company: Denali Therapeutics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 176
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 14 - Segment information" in the notes to the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Employees and Human Capital Resources

As of December 31, 2024, we had approximately 422 full-time employees. A large majority of our employees work out of our headquarters location in South San Francisco, CA, with the remainder working out of our locations in Salt Lake City, Utah and Zurich, Switzerland. 

Our human capital strategy aims to attract new talent and retain and incentivize existing employees by investing in their professional development, as well as providing them with challenging and rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our working environment is guided by the core Denali values of trust, growth, grit and unity, and reinforced by developing quality leadership, fostering diversity and inclusion, emphasizing continuous growth, creating opportunities for engagement, and embracing our goal to defeat degeneration. Our values-driven culture is complemented by our incentive plans, which serve to (1) attract and retain employees through the granting of stock-based and cash-based compensation awards; and (2) motivate employees to perform to the best of their abilities and achieve our objectives, thereby increasing the value and success of our company. 

Key areas of focus for Denali include:

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Health and Safety. Our health and safety programs are designed around global standards with specifications addressing regulations, specific hazards, and the unique working environment of our operations. We mandate employee health and safety training and ergonomic assessments, and require specialized training for all lab-based employees. We conduct regular internal safety audits to ensure that proper safety policies and program procedures are in place. In addition, we engage both internal and third-party compliance assessments and audit selected operations for adherence to health and safety standards. Denali’s safety programs have been highly effective: since we commenced operations in 2015, we have had zero reportable regulatory safety incidents.

Diversity and Inclusion. Denali embraces differences and acknowledges the valuable perspectives that a diverse workforce brings to problem-solving. Our Unity in Diversity team spearheads action-oriented diversity programs, such as social responsibility through community leadership and volunteerism, investment in STEM-focused outreach, and creating a safe place for expression and ideas. As part of our plan to create a more inclusive workplace, we have adopted a zero tolerance policy towards harassment and discrimination and created safe avenues for employees to submit complaints, including an anonymous hotline and a formal complaint system that allows for direct access to our human resources department.

We have implemented several measures to ensure that we are accountable for making progress on our diversity and inclusion initiatives