Company: KELYB
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-080159
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Company: KELLY SERVICES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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 work-life balance, learning and development, collaboration, cohesion, and organizational culture. Fostering Inclusion and Belonging Our eight Affinity Groups brought together approximately 987 employees who share similar affinities, backgrounds, life experiences, and interests, along with their allies. These groups focus on providing support, enhancing professional and personal development, and fostering networking within the workplace. They are employee-led,collaborative groups who are committed to positively impacting our pillars; Workforce, Workplace, and Marketplace. In 2024, the Affinity Groups conducted approximately 79 events, providing a platform for connection, collaboration, and shared experiences. Our Diverse Global Supplier Network connected approximately 443 diverse and underrepresented suppliers to our Kelly network in 2024. This collaborative effort is key to driving innovative solutions and creating a more robust and dynamic network.

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Corporate Governance Governance: Kelly is committed to doing the right thing by conducting ourselves in a legal, ethical, and trustworthy manner. We uphold our regulatory obligations in every country where we operate and comply with both the letter and spirit of our business policies and values. We commit to holding ourselves accountable for our actions and goals. 2024 Governance Highlights: The production of our Growing with Purpose — Sustainabilityreport is in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative (“GRI”) standards, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (“SASB”), United Nations Global Compact (“UNGC”), and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) disclosures. Our 2023 Sustainability report that was published in May 2024, can be found on the Company’s website at kellyservices.com. We continued our annual training and acknowledgment of global policies, with 99.3% of employees acknowledging our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and completing global policy training on business ethics and human rights topics. We ensure compliance with new and updated legislation and standards in all geographies where we operate. In 2024, we strengthened our artificial intelligence (AI) innovation with the integration of an AI-poweredplatform into Kelly Helix, enhancing labor insights, cost savings, and decision-making for contingent workforce management. We also formed a strategic partnership with Upwork that enables clients to streamline access to global freelance talent through the Kelly Human Cloud solution. In addition to these advances we leveraged our internally developed AI assistant, driving efficiency and effectiveness across our various business operations by automating routine tasks, providing insightful data analytics, and enhancing overall decision-making processes. The Company participates in external assessments, such as EcoVadis, to analyze our performance and identify opportunities for