Company: ASGN
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000890564-25-000017
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Company: ASGN Inc
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 66
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 not be in the best interest of our stockholders. If stockholders do not approve the Amended Plan, we will only have limited shares available to grant equity awards to directors, executives and key employees in the near term and we will have to revise our compensation philosophy and components, including substantially increasing cash incentive levels, in order to remain competitive with our peers. We believe that our stockholders’ interests would be better served by the use of equity compensation incentives. Other sources of compensation, including cash bonuses, do not carry the same value in terms of long-term alignment of the interests of key employees with our stockholders. Furthermore, lack of available equity incentives would force us to direct more cash and other resources toward executive compensation and away from other useful development of our business.

• The Amended Plan, in many cases, only pays out incentives based on the attainment of results. Many awards issued under the Amended Plan vest and become payable only upon achievement of certain financial results or other performance objectives, the attainment of which benefits us and our stockholders. We believe that passage of the Amended Plan is crucial to incentivizing key employees to achieve financial results for the Company.

• We believe that ASGN has demonstrated reasonable equity compensation practices. Our stockholders approved the issuance of an additional four million shares at our 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and another 2.7 million shares in 2019. We have continued to utilize that replenishment responsibly such that six years later, 295,525 shares still remain available as of March 31, 2025, and we believe that the proposed aggregate share reserve would be sufficient for several years to come, assuming we continue to grant awards consistent with our current practices and historical usage. To the extent that we grant any awards under the Plan between March 31, 2025 and June 12, 2025, the available share reserve under the Amended Plan will be reduced from 3,795,525 shares (i.e., the remaining available reserve as of March 31, 2025 (295,525 plus 3.5 million shares) by the number of shares that we grant under the Plan during such period.

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• We believe that the proposed share reserve increase is reasonable and appropriate. In determining the number of shares in the proposed increase of shares available under the Amended Plan, the Compensation Committee and the Board considered the dilution if the new share authorization is approved (as mentioned above). The Board considered the long-term growth