EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 700841
Filing Year: 2021
Filename: 700841_10-K_2021_0000700841-21-000013.json

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General
RCM Technologies, Inc. is a premier provider of business and technology solutions designed to enhance and maximize the operational performance of its customers. The Company provides these services through the deployment of advanced engineering, specialty health care and information technology services. For over 40 years, the Company has developed and assembled an attractive, diverse and extensive portfolio of capabilities, service offerings and delivery options. This combination, paired with RCM’s efficient pricing structure, offers clients a compelling value proposition.
RCM consists of three operating segments: Engineering, Specialty Health Care and Information Technology Services.
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The Engineering segment provides a comprehensive portfolio of engineering and design services across three verticals: (1) Energy Services, (2) Process & Industrial and (3) Aerospace. The segment also offers a complementary suite of services to augment its engineering portfolio, including design and supply of high-quality engineered process solutions and equipment, technical writing and digital documentation across marine, locomotive, transportation and aerospace markets, and engineering, procurement and construction management (“EPC”), as well as demand side management/energy conservation services.
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The Specialty Health Care segment provides staffing solutions of health care professionals, primarily health information management professionals, nurses, paraprofessionals, physicians and various therapists. The segment also provides Teletherapy services targeting the education sector with an emphasis on behavioral health.
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The Information Technology, or IT, segment provides enterprise business solutions, application services, infrastructure solutions, life sciences solutions and other vertical-specific offerings.
The Company services some of the largest national and international companies in North America as well as a lengthy roster of Fortune 1000 and mid-sized businesses in such industries as Aerospace/Defense, Educational Institutions, Energy, Financial Services, Health Care, Life Sciences, Manufacturing & Distribution, the Public Sector and Technology. RCM sells and delivers its services through a network of approximately 26 offices in selected regions throughout North America and Serbia.
During the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021, approximately 38.4% of RCM’s total revenues were derived from Engineering services, 40.2% from Specialty Health Care services, and the remaining 21.4% from IT services.
Impact of COVID-19
As discussed in more detail below under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of this Form 10-K, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on our business, particularly in our Specialty Health Care segment, where it impacted the schools where many of the Company’s personnel work.
Industry Overview
Businesses today face intense competition, the challenge of constant technological change and the ongoing need for business process optimization. To address these issues and to compete more effectively, companies are continually evaluating the need for implementing innovative solutions to upgrade their systems, applications and processes. As a result, the ability of an organization to integrate and align advanced technologies with new business objectives is critical.
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Industry Overview (Continued)
The Company’s Engineering group remains focused on areas of growth, primarily within the electric power, aerospace, marine and transportation, commercial and industrial, oil and gas, as well as biofuel industries. Given the current composition of its customer base, the Engineering group’s performance is well balanced between its three segments. In recent years, many electric utilities have prioritized transitioning their power generation assets to cleaner sources of energy. Much of this transformation is being driven by investments in renewable energy. The Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) estimates that 38% of the United States’ electric generation capacity will be comprised of wind and solar assets by 2050. This expansion will require extensive investment in the nation’s transmission infrastructure to interconnect these renewable resources to the energy grid. According to a 2020 study conducted by Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, existing high voltage transmission capacity will need to triple by 2050 and require an additional $2.4 trillion in investment to connect wind and solar generation assets to the broader energy grid. Projects of this scale will require engineering and design expertise, as well as the utilization of EPC services. The process & industrial group has also seen growth as global industries retool and pivot their platforms to assist in the fight against COVID-19. As an example, the demand for sanitizers has increased substantially. This growth and anticipated future growth has led manufacturers to lean on engineering services firms and equipment suppliers to assist them in scaling their production efforts to meet global demand.
In the health care services industry, a shortage of nurses and other medical personnel in the United States has led to increases in business activity for health care service companies, including the Company’s Specialty Health Care group. Due in part to an aging population and improved medical technology, the demand for selected health care professionals is expected to continue over the next several years, with an emphasis on leveraging technology to expand access to care. The increased adoption of telemedicine, an area in which the Specialty Health Care group has developed new service offerings, is a primary example. In addition, public educational institutions are outsourcing their requirements for school nurses, therapists and paraprofessionals to lower their costs and it is expected that this will continue and grow. Each of these dynamics have been exacerbated by COVID-19. The pandemic has also altered patterns in health care delivery, with newer delivery models gaining traction, namely telemedicine. Given federal and state regulatory changes as well as private insurer reimbursement methods, utilization of telemedicine services increased significantly. Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) showed a 50% increase in telehealth visits in the first quarter of 2020, and represents 30% of weekly health center visits. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, CDC researchers stated that maintaining the expansion of telehealth remains critical to providing access to care. Annual telehealth revenues totaled $3 billion in 2019 within the United States. It is expected the total addressable market opportunity will continue to expand and grow. Expanding access to behavioral health and mental well-being is also a priority for public health officials. Compared with 2019, the CDC stated the proportion of children’s mental health-related emergency department visits increased by 24% and 31% for children aged 5-11 and 12-17, respectively. Increasing and maintaining access to proper care remains a top priority and the market opportunity for these services is expected to continue to grow.
Companies must integrate and manage computing environments consisting of multiple computing platforms, operating systems, databases and networking protocols and off-the-shelf software applications to support business objectives. Companies also need to keep pace with new technology developments, which often rapidly render existing equipment and internal skills obsolete. At the same time, varied factors have caused many organizations to focus on core competencies and trim workforces in the IT management area. Accordingly, these organizations often lack the quantity, quality and variety of IT skills necessary to design and support IT solutions. IT managers are charged with supporting increasingly complex systems and applications of significant strategic value, while working under budgetary, personnel and expertise constraints within their own organizations.
The Company believes its target market for IT services is among middle-market companies, which typically lack the time and technical resources to satisfy all of their IT needs internally. These companies commonly require sophisticated, experienced IT assistance to achieve their business objectives and often rely on IT service providers to help implement and manage their systems. RCM is structured to provide middle-market companies a single source for their IT needs.
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Business Strategy
RCM is dedicated to providing solutions to meet its clients’ business needs by delivering engineering, specialty health care and information technology services. The Company’s objective is to remain a recognized leader of specialized professional staffing, consulting services and solutions in major markets throughout North America. The Company adapts operating strategies to achieve this objective. The following is a discussion of the key elements of its growth and operating strategies:
Growth Strategy
Promote Full Life Cycle Solution Capability
The Company promotes a full life cycle solution capability to its customers. The goal of the full life cycle solution strategy is to fully address a client’s project implementation cycle at each stage of its development and deployment. This entails the Company working with its clients from the initial conceptualization of a project through its design and project execution, and extending into ongoing management and support of the delivered product. RCM’s strategy is to build projects and solutions offerings selectively, utilizing its extensive resource base.
The Company believes that the effective execution of this strategy will generate improved margins on its existing resources. The completion of this service-offering continuum is intended to afford the Company the opportunity to strengthen long-term client relationships that will further contribute to a more predictable revenue stream.
In addition to a full life cycle solution offering, the Company continues to focus on transitioning into higher value oriented services in an effort to increase its margins on its various service lines and generate revenue that is more sustainable. The Company believes this transition is accomplished by pursuing additional vertical market specific solutions in conjunction or combination with longer-term based solutions, through expansion of its client relationships and by pursuing strategic alliances and partnerships.
Achieve Internal Growth
The Company continues to promote its internal growth strategies which it designed to better serve the Company’s customers, generate higher revenue and achieve greater operating efficiencies. Every division of the Company continuously focuses on services and client diversification. Business units are collaborating on penetrating and servicing accounts as sales teams are increasing their activity levels. This enables clients to be supported by specialists in their areas of need while RCM productivity increases.
RCM provides an orientation program in which sales managers and professionals receive relevant information about Company operations.
RCM has adopted an industry-centric approach to sales and marketing. This initiative contemplates that clients within the same industry sectors tend to have common business challenges. It therefore allows the Company to present and deliver enhanced value to those clients in the vertical markets in which RCM has assembled the greatest work experience. RCM’s consultants continue to acquire project experience that offers differentiated awareness of the business challenges that clients in that industry are facing. This alignment also facilitates and creates additional cross-selling opportunities. The Company believes this strategy will lead to greater account penetration and enhanced client relationships.
Operational strategies contributing to RCM’s internal productivity include the delineation of certain new solutions practice areas in markets where its clients had historically known the Company as a contract service provider. The formation of these practice areas facilitates the flow of project opportunities and the delivery of project-based solutions.
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Growth Strategy (Continued)
Pursue Selective Strategic Acquisitions
The industries in which the Company operates continues to be highly fragmented, and the Company plans to continue to selectively assess opportunities to make strategic acquisitions as such opportunities are presented to the Company. The Company's acquisition strategy is designed to broaden the scope of services and technical competencies and grow its full life cycle solution capabilities. In considering acquisition opportunities, the Company focuses principally on companies with (i) technologies or market segments RCM has targeted for strategic value enhancement, (ii) margins that are accretive to existing margins, (iii) experienced management personnel, (iv) substantial growth prospects and (v) sellers who desire to join the Company’s management team. To retain and provide incentives for management of its acquired companies, the Company has generally structured a significant portion of the acquisition price in the form of multi-tiered consideration based on growth of operating profitability of the acquired company over a two to four year period.
Operating Strategy
Develop and Maintain Strong Customer Relationships
The Company seeks to develop and maintain strong interactive customer relationships by anticipating and focusing on its customers’ needs. The Company emphasizes a relationship-oriented approach to business, rather than the transaction or assignment-oriented approach that the Company believes is used by many of its competitors. This industry-centric strategy is designed to allow RCM to expand further its relationships with clients in RCM’s targeted sectors.
To develop close customer relationships, the Company’s practice managers and/or sales people regularly meet with both existing and prospective clients to identify areas of need and help design solutions and identify the resources needed to execute their strategies. The Company’s managers also maintain close communications with their customers during each project and on an ongoing basis after its completion. The Company believes that this relationship-oriented approach can result in greater customer satisfaction. Additionally, the Company believes that by collaborating with its customers in designing business solutions, it can generate new opportunities to cross-sell additional services that the Company has to offer. The Company focuses on providing customers with qualified individuals or teams of experts compatible with the business needs of its customers and makes a concerted effort to follow the progress of such relationships to ensure their continued success.
Attract and Retain Highly Qualified Consultants and Technical Resources
The Company believes it has been successful in attracting and retaining highly qualified consultants and contractors by (i) providing stimulating and challenging work assignments, (ii) offering competitive wages, (iii) effectively communicating with its candidates, (iv) providing selective training to maintain and upgrade skills and (v) aligning the needs of its customers with appropriately skilled personnel. The Company believes it has been successful in retaining these personnel due in part to its use of practice managers who are dedicated to maintaining contact with, and monitoring the satisfaction levels of, the Company’s consultants and contractors while they are on assignment.
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Engineering
RCM provides a full range of Engineering services including Project Management Engineering & Design, Engineering Analysis, Engineer-Procure-Construct, Configuration Management, Hardware/Software Validation & Verification, Quality Assurance, Technical Writing & Publications, Manufacturing Process Planning & Improvement and 3D/BIM Integrated Design. Engineering services are provided at the site of the client or at the Company’s own facilities.
The Company’s Engineering segment consists of three business units - Energy Services, Aerospace Services and Process and Industrial Services.
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Energy Services: Provides solutions to the utility industry, including power generation and transmission and distribution. The group also specializes in projects in the nuclear industry, with experience that encompasses multi-disciplined engineering and design services as well as providing technical support during design, construction and plant operational phases. The Company believes that the deregulation of the utilities industry and the aging of nuclear power plants offer the Company an opportunity to capture a greater share of professional services and project management requirements of the utilities industry. Electric utilities have prioritized transitioning their power generation assets to cleaner sources of energy. This expansion requires large-scale investment in the nation’s transmission infrastructure to interconnect these renewable resources to the energy grid.
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Aerospace Services: Provides engineering and technical services to the aerospace & defense industry. According to the Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”), the Department of Defense plans to spend over $1 trillion in procurement-related aviation expenditures over the next three decades. Given RCM’s customer account relationships with several of the largest defense prime contractors, the Company believes there is ample opportunity for engineering services and technical publication work, including production and procurement engineering services as well as the need for sustainment and development program publication services.
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Process and Industrial Services: Provides engineering services to the industrial, chemical, commercial and oil and gas industries in the United States, Europe and Canada. As the world’s industrial output rebounds from 2020’s pandemic-related weakness, the Company believes it is positioned well to take advantage. With many companies in the chemical industry reprioritizing spending towards decarbonization technologies, many US chemical companies are expected to place an emphasis on renewable feedstocks and new carbon recycling technologies. The Company believes its process engineering services can play a vital role across this multibillion-dollar opportunity.
The Company provides its engineering services through a number of delivery methods. These include managed tasks and resources, complete project services, outsourcing, both on and off-site, and a full complement of resourcing alternatives.
As of January 2, 2021, the Company assigned approximately 370 engineering and technical personnel to its customers.
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Specialty Health Care
The Company’s Specialty Health Care Group specializes in long-term and short-term staffing as well as executive search and placement solutions for many of the largest healthcare institutions and school districts across the United States. The segment’s portfolio of services includes, but is not limited to, the following fields:
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Allied and Therapy Staffing: Specializes in recruiting outstanding professionals across the health care industry. Our allied health care professionals and therapists work in schools, health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation facilities.
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Correctional Healthcare Staffing: Staffing services for local, state and federal correctional facilities and provide screening, onboarding, and employee assessments as well as employee and inmate vaccination and treatment services.
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Health Information Management: Provide healthcare organizations with experienced medical coding professionals that manage staffing shortages, backlogs, vacation coverage and long-term coding support.
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Nursing Services: Provides nurse placement and staffing services in healthcare facilities, schools, hospitals and correctional facilities.
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Physicians and Advanced Practice: Our national locum tenens (temporary practitioner) practice specializes in placing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
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School Services: Provides full-time and part-time nurse employment services for school districts across the country. The Company also offers other health care professionals to perform school evaluations and treat students, including occupational and physical therapists, speech and language pathologists, as well as special education support services and registered behavioral technicians to support students’ individualized education plan and behavioral health needs.
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Telepractice: RCM’s teletherapy solution is an evidence-based service delivery option for students to receive Special Education services such as Speech-Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Behavioral and Mental Health services and other healthcare services through an online platform.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, maintaining the utilization of telemedicine remains critical to providing necessary access to care. Expanding access to behavioral health and mental wellness services is also a priority for many public health officials. Compared with 2019, the CDC stated that children’s mental health-related emergency department visits increased by 24% and 31% for children aged 5-11 and 12-17, respectively. The Company’s School Services and Telepractice offerings are well positioned to provide solutions in these areas of priority as the market opportunity for these services is expected to continue to grow.
As of January 2, 2021, the Company assigned approximately 1,460 specialty health care services personnel to its customers.
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Information Technology
The Company’s IT segment is an integrated group of business units providing staff supplementation services and project solutions with physical locations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico primarily supporting Financial, Technical, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Distribution applications. Specialization in project solutions include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
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Life Sciences: Specializes in providing innovative options to pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies in need of guidance, support or remediation of quality, compliance or business challenges. The group assists in staffing, solution planning and remediation needs in the areas of automation, compliance, data analytics, technical quality assurance and management, and validation and verification.
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IT Services & Solutions: Global provider of business and technology solutions designed to improve the operational performance of our clients. Specialties include software development, infrastructure services, and managed IT solutions. The Company has a 40-year history of providing qualified IT candidates to customers in a timely and cost-effective manner to address their specific business needs. The Company offers scalable solutions that can provide emerging growth companies with a single qualified resource or an entire project team along with RCM’s project management oversight to Fortune 100 clients.
RCM’s sector knowledge coupled with technical and business process experience enable the Company to provide strategic planning, project execution and management and support services throughout the entire project life cycle. RCM has successfully completed multimillion-dollar projects in a variety of industry verticals using time-tested methodologies that manage strict budgets, timelines and quality metrics.
The Company believes that its ability to deliver information technology solutions across a wide range of technical platforms provides an important competitive advantage. RCM ensures that its consultants have the expertise and skills needed to keep pace with rapidly evolving information technologies. The Company’s strategy is to maintain expertise and acquire knowledge in multiple technologies so it can offer its clients non-biased technology solutions best suited to their business needs.
The Company provides its IT services through a number of flexible delivery methods. These include management consulting engagements, project management of client efforts, project implementation of client initiatives, outsourcing, both on and off site, and a full complement of resourcing alternatives.
As of January 2, 2021, the Company assigned approximately 230 information technology personnel to its customers.
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Branch Offices
The Company’s organization consists of 26 branch offices located in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Serbia. The locations and services of each of the branch offices are set forth in the table below.
LOCATION
NUMBER OF
OFFICES
SERVICES
PROVIDED(1)
UNITED STATES
California
HC
Connecticut
E
Florida
HC
Hawaii
HC
Illinois
HC
Maryland
IT
Massachusetts
IT
New Jersey
E, IT
New York
E, HC, IT
Pennsylvania
E
Rhode Island
E
Tennessee
HC
CANADA
E, IT
PUERTO RICO
E, IT
SERBIA
E, IT
(1) Services provided are abbreviated as follows:
E - Engineering
HC - Specialty Health Care
IT - Information Technology
The Company is domiciled in the United States and its segments operate in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Serbia.
From its headquarters locations in New Jersey, the Company provides its branch offices with centralized administrative, marketing, finance, MIS, human resources and legal support. Centralized administrative functions minimize the administrative burdens on branch office managers and allow them to spend more time focusing on sales and marketing and practice development activities.
Branch offices are primarily located in markets that the Company believes have strong growth prospects for the Company’s services. The Company’s branches are operated in a decentralized, entrepreneurial manner with most offices operating as independent profit centers.
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Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing efforts are conducted at the local and national level through the Company’s network of branch offices. Sales activities and productivity are tracked and rankings established and published. Sales between business units are recognized and financially encouraged. The Company emphasizes long-term personal relationships with customers that are developed through regular assessment of customer requirements and proactive monitoring of service performance. The Company’s sales personnel make regular visits to existing and prospective customers. New customers are obtained through active sales programs and referrals. The Company encourages its employees to participate in national and regional trade associations, local chambers of commerce and other civic associations. The Company seeks to develop strategic partnering relationships with its customers by providing comprehensive solutions for all aspects of a customer’s engineering, information technology and other professional services needs. The Company concentrates on providing carefully screened professionals with the appropriate skills in a timely manner and at competitive prices. The Company regularly monitors the quality of the services provided by its personnel and obtains feedback from its customers as to their satisfaction with the services provided.
The Company serves Fortune 1000 companies and many middle market clients. The Company’s relationships with these customers are typically formed at the customers’ local or regional level and from time to time, when appropriate, at the corporate level for national accounts.
The Company’s larger recognizable customers include:
Engineering Services
Health Care Services
Life Sciences & IT Services
Al-Corn Clean Fuel
American Electric Power
Bruce Power
Con Edison
Covanta
Eversource Energy
Exelon
First Energy
Hamilton Sundstrand
HICO America
Lockheed Martin
Ontario Power Generation
Pratt and Whitney
Praxair
Sikorsky Aircraft
United Technologies Corporation
Verizon
WE Energies
AMN Healthcare
Aya Healthcare
Chicago Public Schools
Cross Country
Hawaii Department of Education
New York City Board of Education
Right Sourcing
San Bernardino County
Thera Dynamic Physical Therapy
ADP
Amgen
Bayada
Bimbo Bakeries
Bruckner Supply Company
FlightSafety International
Ginkgo Bioworks
Johnson and Johnson
Kronos
Lily del Caribe
Patheon
Pfizer
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Triverus Consulting
United Health Group
Western Alliance Bank
Key Customers
The Company has established long-term relationships with many of its customers across each of its business segments. RCM’s emphasis on client retention has resulted in repeat business from many of its largest strategic accounts. During the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021, New York City Board of Education represented 10.6% of the Company’s revenues. No other client accounted for 10% or more of total revenues during the year. The Company’s five, ten and twenty largest customers accounted for approximately 33.4%, 46.6% and 60.7%, respectively, of the Company’s revenues for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021.
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Other Information
Safeguards - Business, Disaster and Contingency Planning
RCM has implemented a number of safeguards to protect the Company from various system-related risks including Redundant Telecommunications and server systems architecture, multi-tiered server and desktop backup infrastructure, and data center physical and environmental controls. In addition, RCM has developed disaster recovery / business continuity procedures for all offices.
Given the significant amount of data generated in the Company’s key processes including recruiting, sales, payroll and customer invoicing, RCM has established redundant procedures, functioning on a daily basis, within the Company’s primary data center, which is a third-party Internet Data Center (“IDC”). This redundancy should mitigate the risks related to hardware, application and data loss by utilizing the concept of live differential backups of servers and desktops to Storage Area Network (SAN) devices on its backup LAN, culminating in offsite tape storage at an independent facility. Controls within the data center environment ensure that all systems are proactively monitored and data is properly archived.
Additionally, RCM has contracted and brokered strategic relationships with third-party vendors to meet its recovery objectives in the event of a system disruption. For example, comprehensive service level agreements for RCM’s data circuits and network devices guarantee minimal outages as well as network redundancy and scalability.
The Company’s ability to protect its data assets against damage from fire, power loss, telecommunications failures, and facility violations is critical. To address potential cyber security threats, the Company uses a third-party mail management service to filter all emails destined for the RCMT domain before being delivered to the corporate mail servers. The service has also been deployed to safeguard the enterprise from malicious internet content. The deployment of virus, spam, and patch management controls extends from the perimeter network to all desktops and is centrally monitored and managed. In addition to the virus and malware controls, an Intrusion Protection System (IPS) monitors and alerts on changes in network traffic patterns as well as known hostile signatures.
The Company maintains a disaster recovery plan that outlines the recovery time / point objectives (RTO / RPO), organization structure, roles and procedures, including site addendum disaster plans for all of its key operating offices. Corporate IT personnel regulate the maintenance and integrity of backed-up data throughout the Company.
The IDC provides RCM with a robust data center environment with redundant HVAC, commercial power feeds, ten 2000kW diesel generator sets with five 10,000-gallon, above-ground fuel oil storage tanks to provide standby power and dry pipe fire suppression. In addition, the IDC provides 24x7 security staffing, closed-circuit monitors, secure-card key access, biometrics scanners, man traps, and alarmed doors.
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Competition
The market for engineering and IT services is highly competitive and is subject to rapid change. As the market demand has shifted, many software companies have adopted tactics to pursue services and consulting offerings making them direct competitors when in the past they may have been alliance partners. Primary competitors include participants from a variety of market segments, including publicly and privately held firms, systems consulting and implementation firms, application software firms, service groups of computer equipment companies, facilities management companies, general management consulting firms and staffing companies. In addition, the Company competes with its clients’ internal resources, particularly where these resources represent a fixed cost to the client. Such competition may impose additional pricing pressures on the Company.
The Company believes its principal competitive advantages in the engineering and IT services market include: strong relationships with existing clients, a long-term track record with over 1,000 clients, a broad range of services, technical expertise, knowledge and experience in multiple industry sectors, quality and flexibility of service, responsiveness to client needs and speed in delivering IT solutions.
Additionally, the Company competes for suitable acquisition candidates based on its differentiated acquisition model, its entrepreneurial and decentralized operating philosophy, and its strong corporate-level support and resources.
Seasonality
The Company’s operating results can be affected by the seasonal fluctuations in client expenditures. Expenditures in the Engineering and Information Technology segments can be negatively impacted during the first quarter of the year when clients are finalizing their budgets. Quarterly results generally fluctuate depending on, among other things, the number of billing days in a quarter and the seasonality of clients’ businesses. The business is also affected by the timing of holidays and seasonal vacation patterns, generally resulting in lower revenues and gross profit in the fourth quarter of each year, not considering any non-seasonal impact. Extreme weather conditions may also affect demand in the first and fourth quarters of the year as certain clients’ facilities are located in geographic areas subject to closure or reduced hours due to inclement weather. The Company generally experiences an increase in its cost of sales and a corresponding decrease in gross profit and gross margin percentage in the first and second fiscal quarters of each year as a result of resetting certain state and federal employment tax rates and related salary limitations. Also, the Company’s Specialty Health Care segment typically experiences a significant decline in revenues due to the substantial closure of one of its largest customers, the New York City Department of Education, and other educational institution clients during the third quarter due to their summer recess.
Government Regulations
The Company is a consulting firm and employment service provider and is generally subject to one or more of the following types of government regulation: (1) regulation of the employer/employee relationship between a firm and its employees, including tax withholding or reporting, social security or retirement, benefits, workplace compliance, wage and hour, anti-discrimination, immigration and workers’ compensation, (2) registration, licensing, record keeping and reporting requirements, and (3) federal contractor compliance. The Company believes it is in material compliance with all employee related statutes.
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Intellectual Property
Management believes the RCM Technologies, Inc. name is extremely valuable and important to its business. The Company endeavors to protect its intellectual property rights and maintain certain trademarks, trade names, service marks and other intellectual property rights, including The Source of Smart Solutions®. The Company is not currently aware of any infringing uses or other conditions that would be reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect the Company’s use of its proprietary rights.
Workforce
As of January 2, 2021, the Company employed an administrative, sales, recruiting and management staff of approximately 215 people, including licensed engineers and certified IT specialists who, from time to time, participate in engineering design and IT projects undertaken by the Company. As of January 2, 2021, there were approximately 370 engineering and technical personnel, 1,460 specialty health care services personnel and 230 information technology personnel assigned by the Company to work on client projects or assignments for various periods. None of the Company’s employees are party to a collective bargaining agreement.
Access to Company Information
The Company is a Nevada corporation organized in 1971. The address of its principal executive office is 2500 McClellan Avenue, Suite 350, Pennsauken, NJ 08109-4613.
RCM electronically files its annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and all amendments to those reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The SEC maintains an Internet site (http://www.sec.gov) that contains reports, proxies, information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically.
RCM makes available on its website or by responding free of charge to requests addressed to the Company’s Corporate Secretary, its annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and all amendments to those reports filed by the Company with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These reports are available as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. The Company’s website is http://www.rcmt.com. The information contained on the Company’s website, or on other websites linked to the Company’s website, is not part of this document. Reference herein to the Company’s website is an inactive text reference only.
RCM has adopted a Code of Conduct applicable to all of its directors, officers and employees. In addition, the Company has adopted a Code of Ethics, within the meaning of applicable SEC rules, applicable to its Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Controller. Both the Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics are available, free of charge, by sending a written request to the Company’s Corporate Secretary. If the Company makes any amendments to either of these Codes (other than technical, administrative, or other non-substantive amendments), or waives (explicitly or implicitly) any provision of the Code of Ethics to the benefit of its Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer or Controller, it intends to disclose the nature of the amendment or waiver, its effective date and to whom it applies in the investor relations portion of the website, or in a report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
The Company’s business involves a number of risks, some of which are beyond its control. The risk and uncertainties described below are not the only ones the Company faces. Set forth below is a discussion of the risks and uncertainties that management believes to be material to the Company.
Economic Trends
Adverse global economic conditions, when they occur, may create conditions such as a general tightening in the credit markets, lower levels of liquidity, increases in the rates of default and bankruptcy, and volatility in credit, equity and fixed income markets. Any or all of these developments can negatively affect the Company’s business, operating results or financial condition in a number of ways. For example, current or potential customers may be unable to fund capital spending programs, new product launches of other similar endeavors whereby they might procure services from the Company, and therefore delay, decrease or cancel purchases of services or not pay or delay paying for previously purchased services. In addition, these conditions may cause the Company to incur increased expenses or make it more difficult either to utilize existing debt capacity or otherwise obtain financing for operations, investing activities (including the financing of any future acquisitions), or financing activities, all of which could adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
Global Epidemics
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and associated initiatives to reduce its spread, have adversely affected the Company’s business and financial position, and are expected to continue to do so. The impacts described in this risk factor as relating to COVID-19 could arise in the future with respect to any other global pandemics that may occur.
Our business has been, and we expect that it will continue to be, adversely impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 continues to present various health, business and other challenges globally, including significant impacts in the United States, we are taking a variety of measures to protect the health and safety of our employees and, especially in the healthcare segment, deploying our resources, including the talents of our employees, to help the communities we serve meet and overcome the current challenges. However, public and private sector policies and initiatives to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, such as closures of schools, businesses and manufacturing facilities, the promotion of social distancing, the adoption of working from home by companies and institutions, and travel restrictions could continue to adversely affect demand for our services and to present challenges to us in delivering these services. The extent to which COVID-19 impacts operations will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including the duration of the outbreak, new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the pandemic and the actions to contain COVID-19 or treat its impact, among others. These impacts on our business could have an adverse effect on our liquidity position and access to capital, including our ability to access our line of credit. The Company can give no assurance that the line of credit will be available in the future.
These factors, in addition to delays in payment (from clients and/or clients in bankruptcy), have resulted in, and could continue to result in, significant additional bad debts in the near future. Additionally, our operating results would be adversely affected if unexpected increases in the costs of labor and labor related costs, materials, supplies and equipment used in performing services (including the impact of potential tariffs and COVID-19) could not be passed on to our clients.
In addition, we believe that to maintain or improve our financial performance we must continue to obtain service agreements with new clients, retain and provide new services to existing clients, achieve modest price increases on current service agreements with existing clients and/or maintain internal cost reduction strategies at our various operational levels. Furthermore, we believe that our ability to sustain the internal development of managerial personnel is an important factor impacting future operating results and the successful execution of our projected growth strategies. Certainly, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic makes these objective more difficult to attain.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS (CONTINUED)
Government Regulations
Staffing firms and employment service providers are generally subject to one or more of the following types of government regulation: (1) regulation of the employer/employee relationship between a firm and its employees, including tax withholding or reporting, social security or retirement, benefits, workplace compliance, wage and hour, anti-discrimination, immigration and workers’ compensation; (2) registration, licensing, record keeping and reporting requirements; and (3) federal contractor compliance. Failure to comply with these regulations could result in the Company incurring penalties and other liabilities, monetary and otherwise.
Highly Competitive Business
The staffing services and outsourcing markets are highly competitive and have limited barriers to entry. RCM competes in global, national, regional, and local markets with numerous temporary staffing and permanent placement companies. Price competition in the staffing industry is significant and pricing pressures from competitors and customers are increasing. In addition, there is increasing pressure on companies to outsource certain areas of their business to low cost offshore outsourcing firms. RCM expects that the level of competition will remain high in the future, which could limit RCM’s ability to maintain or increase its market share or profitability. Our inability to compete successfully with our competitors could adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
Seasonality of Business
As described in “Item 1. Business,” our operating results are subject to seasonal fluctuations, with reduced demand often occurring during the first quarter of the year when clients are finalizing their engineering and IT budgets, and also during periods in which there are a substantial amount of holidays and season vacations. In particular, one of the largest customers in our Specialty Health Care group, the New York City Department of Education, significantly reduces activity during the third quarter, when schools are closed for summer recess. Our operating results for any given period may fluctuate as a result of the timing of holidays, vacations and other events, and if we were to experience unfavorable performance during periods in which we would otherwise expect to have high seasonal demand, we may have limited ability to make up for such performance during periods of seasonally lower demand.
Events Affecting Significant Customers
As disclosed in “Item 1. Business,” the Company’s five, ten and twenty largest customers accounted for approximately 33.4%, 46.6% and 60.7%, respectively, of revenues for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021. During the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021, New York City Board of Education represented 10.6% of the Company’s revenues. No other client accounted for 10% or more of total revenues during the year. The Company’s customers may be affected by the current state of the economy or developments in the credit markets or may engage in mergers or similar transactions. In addition, customers may choose to reduce the business they do with RCM for other reasons or no reason. The Company could also be materially impacted by actions of prime contractors whereby the Company derives revenues through a subcontractor relationship. Should any significant customers experience a downturn in their business that weakens their financial condition or merge with another company or otherwise cease independent operation, or limit their relationship with us, it is possible that the business that the customer does with the Company would be reduced or eliminated, which could adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS (CONTINUED)
Events Affecting Significant Customers (Continued)
The Company had a dispute with a customer that is a major utility in the United States. Both parties agreed in fiscal 2017 to resolve this dispute through binding arbitration. Arbitration hearings with this customer started in fiscal 2018. Essentially, the customer did not pay the balance of accounts receivable the Company believes were owed for certain disputed projects. As of December 28, 2019, the total amount of recorded receivables from this customer on these disputed projects was $14.1 million. Additionally, as part of the arbitration process, the customer asserted counter-claims of $10.3 million. The arbitrator rendered a decision in this dispute in April 2020, awarding the Company $7.4 million, and the arbitration award was paid during the thirteen week period ended September 26, 2020. The counter-claims asserted against the Company of $10.3 million were denied in their entirety. For the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, the Company recorded a charge of $8.4 million, including $6.7 million constituting the portion of the accounts receivable relating to the disputed projects that was not awarded by the arbitrator, $0.7 million from other projects with this customer that were not part of the arbitration, $0.8 million in professional fees related to the dispute and arbitration, and $0.2 million of transit accounts receivable associated with disputed projects that were part of the arbitration. The Company decided to write off the $0.7 million of accounts receivable from other projects not part of the arbitration for business reasons.
Safety Concerns Regarding Nuclear Power Plants; Limitations on Insurance
New and existing concerns are being expressed in public forums about the safety of nuclear generating units and nuclear fuel. Among other things, these concerns have led to, and are expected to continue to lead to, various proposals to regulators and governing bodies in some localities where nuclear facilities are located for legislative and regulatory changes that could lead to the shut-down of nuclear units, denial of license renewal applications, municipalization of nuclear units, restrictions on nuclear units or other adverse effects on owning and operating nuclear generating units. Should these concerns or proposals lead to a diminishment of or reduced growth in the nuclear power industry, the Company’s Engineering segment, which has a focus on the nuclear power industry, could be harmed, and the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
In addition, our liability insurance does not cover accidents occurring at nuclear power facilities. Should we be found to be responsible for such an event, we may not be able to cover relating damages, and our business would be adversely affected.
Subcontractors, Transit Accounts Receivable and Transit Accounts Payables Related to Construction Management Contracts
The Company’s Engineering segment has entered into arrangements to provide construction management and engineering services to customers under which arrangements the Company then engages subcontractors to provide the construction services. Ultimately, as a primary contractor, the Company is responsible for the nonperformance or negligence of its subcontractors, whom the Company requires to be adequately insured and to issue performance bonds for their assignment. Should a subcontractor not perform or act negligently and should there be inadequate insurance or performance bonds in place, the Company might not be able to mitigate its primary liability to the customer, and the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected. In addition, while payments to subcontractors typically are due from the Company only after the Company receives payment from the ultimate customer, the Company faces the risk that, should a customer not pay the Company, or should a subcontractor demand payment from the Company prior to the Company’s receipt of payment from its customer, the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS (CONTINUED)
Dependence Upon Personnel
The Company’s operations depend on the continued efforts of its officers and other executive management. The loss of key officers and members of executive management may cause a significant disruption to the Company’s business.
RCM also depends on the performance and productivity of its local managers and field personnel. The Company’s ability to attract and retain new business is significantly affected by local relationships and the quality of service rendered. The loss of key managers and field personnel may also jeopardize existing client relationships with businesses that continue to use the Company’s services based upon past relationships with local managers and field personnel. In order to fulfill the requirements of the Company’s customers, the Company must be able to recruit and retain appropriate personnel for client assignments.
Revolving Credit Facility and Liquidity
If the Company were unable to borrow under its Revolving Credit Facility (see “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources - Financing Activities”), it may adversely affect liquidity, results of operations and financial condition. The Company’s liquidity depends on its ability to generate sufficient cash flows from operations and, from time to time, borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility with the Company’s agent lender Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. The Company believes that Citizens Bank is liquid and is not aware of any current risk that they will become illiquid. At January 2, 2021, the Company had $11.9 million in borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility outstanding and $1.9 million outstanding under letters of credit, with availability for additional borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility of $31.2 million.
The Revolving Credit Facility contains various financial and non-financial covenants. At January 2, 2021, the Company was in compliance with the covenants and other provisions of the Credit Facility. Any failure to be in compliance could have a material adverse effect on liquidity, results of operations and financial condition.
Foreign Currency Fluctuations and Changes in Exchange Rates
The Company is exposed to risks associated with foreign currency fluctuations and changes in exchange rates. RCM’s exposure to foreign currency fluctuations relates to operations in Canada and Serbia, principally conducted through its Canadian and Serbian subsidiaries. Exchange rate fluctuations affect the United States dollar value of reported earnings derived from the Canadian operations as well as the carrying value of the Company’s investment in the net assets related to these operations. The Company does not engage in hedging activities with respect to foreign operations.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS (CONTINUED)
Changes in Tax Laws
At any time, United States federal tax laws or the administrative interpretations of those laws may be changed. As a result, changes in United States federal tax laws could negatively impact our operating results, financial condition and business operations, and adversely impact the Company’s shareholders. At any time, tax laws in the Company’s other jurisdictions, Canada, Puerto Rico and Serbia, may also change. These tax law changes may have a material impact on the Company’s income tax expense.
Workers’ Compensation and Employee Medical Insurance
The Company self-insures a portion of the exposure for losses related to workers’ compensation and employees’ medical insurance. The Company has established reserves for workers’ compensation and employee medical insurance claims based on historical loss statistics and periodic independent actuarial valuations. Significant differences in actual experience or significant changes in assumptions may materially affect the Company’s future financial results.
Improper Activities of Temporary Professionals Could Result in Damage to Business Reputation, Discontinuation of Client Relationships and Exposure to Liability
The Company may be subject to claims by clients related to errors and omissions, misuse of proprietary information, discrimination and harassment, theft and other criminal activity, malpractice, and other claims stemming from the improper activities or alleged activities of temporary professionals. There can be no assurance that current liability insurance coverage will be adequate or will continue to be available in sufficient amounts to cover damages or other costs associated with such claims.
Claims raised by clients stemming from the improper actions of temporary professionals, even if without merit, could cause the Company to incur significant expense associated with rework costs or other damages related to such claims. Furthermore, such claims by clients could damage the Company’s business reputation and result in the discontinuation of client relationships.
Acquisitions May Not Succeed
The Company reviews prospective acquisitions as an element of its growth strategy. The failure of any acquisition to meet the Company’s expectations, whether due to a failure to successfully integrate any future acquisition or otherwise, may result in damage to the Company’s financial performance and/or divert management’s attention from its core operations or could negatively affect the Company’s ability to meet the needs of its customers promptly.
International Operations
The Company operates its business in Canada and, to a less significant extent, in Puerto Rico and Serbia. For the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021, approximately 16.1% of the Company’s revenues were generated outside the United States. There are certain risks inherent in conducting business internationally including: the imposition of trade barriers, foreign exchange restrictions, longer payment cycles, greater difficulties in accounts receivables collection, difficulties in complying with a variety of foreign laws (including without limitation the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), changes in legal or regulatory requirements, difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations, complex and uncertain employment environments, political instability and potentially adverse tax consequences. To the extent the Company experiences these risks, the business and results of operations could be adversely affected.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS (CONTINUED)
Trademarks
Management believes the RCM Technologies, Inc. name is extremely valuable and important to its business. The Company endeavors to protect its intellectual property rights and maintain certain trademarks, trade names, service marks and other intellectual property rights, including The Source of Smart Solutions®. The Company is not currently aware of any infringing uses or other conditions that would be reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect the Company’s use of its proprietary rights. The Company’s success depends on its ability to successfully obtain and maintain, and prevent misappropriation or infringement of, its intellectual property, maintain trade secret protection, and conduct operations without violating or infringing on the intellectual property rights of third parties. Intellectual property litigation is expensive and time-consuming, and it is often difficult, if not impossible, to predict the outcome of such litigation. If the Company is involved in an intellectual property litigation, its business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
Data Center Capacity and Telecommunication Links
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), card key access, fire suppression, and environmental control systems protect RCM’s datacenter. All systems are monitored on a 24/7 basis with alerting capabilities via voice or email. The telecommunications architecture at RCM utilizes managed private circuits from AT&T, which encompasses provisioning redundancy and diversity.
The Company’s ability to protect its data center against damage from fire, power loss, telecommunications failure and other disasters is critical to business operations. In order to provide many of its services, RCM must be able to store, retrieve, process and manage large databases and periodically expand and upgrade its capabilities. Any damage to the Company’s data centers or any failure of the Company’s telecommunication links that interrupts its operations or results in an inadvertent loss of data could adversely affect the Company’s ability to meet its customers’ needs and their confidence in utilizing the Company for future services.
RCM’s ability to protect its data, provide services and safeguard its installations, as it relates to the IT infrastructure, is in part dependent on several outside vendors with whom the Company maintains service level agreements.
Cyber Security
We are highly dependent on information technology systems to operate our business. A breakdown, invasion, corruption, destruction or interruption of critical information technology systems by employees, others with authorized access to our systems or unauthorized persons could negatively impact operations. In the ordinary course of business, we collect, store and transmit confidential information and it is critical that we do so in a secure manner to maintain the confidentiality and integrity of such information. Additionally, we outsource certain elements of our information technology systems to third parties. As a result of this outsourcing, our third party vendors may or could have access to our confidential information making such systems vulnerable. Data breaches of our information technology systems, or those of our third party vendors, may pose a risk that sensitive data may be exposed to unauthorized persons or to the public. While we believe that we have taken appropriate security measures to protect our data and information technology systems, and have been informed by our third party vendors that they have as well, there can be no assurance that our efforts will prevent breakdowns or breaches in our systems, or those of our third party vendors, that could adversely affect our business.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Not applicable.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
The Company provides specialty professional consulting services, principally performed at various client locations, through 26 administrative and sales offices located in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada and Serbia. The majority of the Company’s offices typically consist of 1,000 to 13,000 square feet and are typically leased by the Company for terms of one to five years. Offices in larger or smaller markets may vary in size from the typical office. The Company does not expect that it will be difficult to maintain or find suitable lease space at reasonable rates in its markets or in areas where the Company contemplates expansion.
The Company’s executive office is located at 2500 McClellan Avenue, Suite 350, Pennsauken, New Jersey 08109-4613. These premises consist of approximately 3,500 square feet and are leased at a rate of approximately $15.00 per square foot per annum for a term ending on November 30, 2025.
The Company’s operational office is located at 20 Waterview Boulevard, 4th Floor, Parsippany, NJ 07054-1271. These premises consist of approximately 9,200 square feet and are leased at a rate of approximately $24.95 per square foot per annum for a term ending on January 31, 2024.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
From time to time, the Company is a defendant or plaintiff in various legal actions that arise in the ordinary business course. These matters may relate to professional liability, tax, compensation, contract, competitor disputes, and employee-related matters and include individual and class action lawsuits, as well as inquiries and investigations by governmental agencies regarding the Company’s employment and compensation practices. Additionally, some of the Company’s clients may also become subject to claims, governmental inquiries and investigations, and legal actions relating to the Company’s professional services. Depending upon the particular facts and circumstances, the Company may also be subject to indemnification obligations under its contracts with such clients relating to these matters.
As such, the Company is required to assess the likelihood of any adverse outcomes to these matters as well as potential ranges of losses and possible recoveries. The Company may not be covered by insurance as it pertains to some or all of these matters. A determination of the amount of the provision required for these commitments and contingencies, if any, which would be charged to earnings, is made after careful analysis of each matter. The Company records a liability when management believes an adverse outcome from a loss contingency is both probable and the amount, or a range, can be reasonably estimated. Significant judgment is required to determine both probability of loss and the estimated amount. The Company reviews its loss contingencies at least quarterly and adjusts its accruals and/or disclosures to reflect the impact of negotiations, settlements, rulings, advice of legal counsel, or other new information, as deemed necessary. Once established, a provision may change in the future due to new developments or changes in circumstances and could increase or decrease the Company’s earnings in the period that the changes are made.
The Company has reserved $1.7 million for the settlement of a class action suit in California that alleges the Company did not properly pay its travel nurses overtime wages. While the Company believes it did not violate any overtime wage laws, it nevertheless decided to settle this class action lawsuit in December 2020. The Company expects to pay the $1.7 million settlement sometime during its third quarter of fiscal 2021. The Company is exposed to other asserted claims as of January 2, 2021, but the Company does not believe any of these other claims have a probability of loss. As of January 2, 2021, the Company did not have an accrual for any such other claims. Furthermore, even if any of these other claims do result in an unfavorable outcome or settlement, the Company believes that such matters will not, either individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on its business, consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
The Company had a dispute with a customer that is a major utility in the United States. Both parties agreed in fiscal 2017 to resolve this dispute through binding arbitration. Arbitration hearings with this customer started in fiscal 2018. Essentially, the customer did not pay the balance of accounts receivable the Company believes were owed for certain disputed projects. As of December 28, 2019, the total amount of recorded receivables from this customer on these disputed projects was $14.1 million. Additionally, as part of the arbitration process, the customer asserted counter-claims of $10.3 million. The arbitrator rendered a decision in this dispute in April 2020, awarding the Company $7.4 million, and the arbitration award was paid during the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021. The counter-claims asserted against the Company of $10.3 million were denied in their entirety. For the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, the Company recorded a charge of $8.4 million, including $6.7 million constituting the portion of the accounts receivable relating to the disputed projects that was not awarded by the arbitrator, $0.7 million from other projects with this customer that were not part of the arbitration, $0.8 million in professional fees related to the dispute and arbitration, and $0.2 million of transit accounts receivable associated with disputed projects that were part of the arbitration. The Company decided to write off the $0.7 million of accounts receivable from other projects not part of the arbitration for business reasons.
The Company is also subject to other pending legal proceedings and claims that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of its business, which may not be covered by insurance.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
ITEM 5.
MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER
MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Shares of the Company’s common stock are traded on The NASDAQ Global Market under the Symbol “RCMT.”
Holders
As of February 12, 2021, the approximate number of holders of record of the Company’s Common Stock was 471 and the number of beneficial owners of its Common Stock was approximately 3,994.
Dividends
No dividends were declared in fiscal 2020 or fiscal 2021. All restricted share awards contain a dividend equivalent provision entitling holders to dividends paid between the restricted stock unit grant date and ultimate share distribution date. As of January 2, 2021, there were no accrued dividends.
While the Company, at this time, has no plans to issue any future dividends, any future payment of dividends will depend upon, among other things, the Company’s earnings, financial condition, capital requirements, level of indebtedness, contractual restrictions, and other factors that the Board of Directors deems relevant. The Revolving Credit Facility (as discussed in Item 7 hereof) prohibits the payment of any dividends or distributions on account of the Company’s capital stock without the prior consent of the majority of the Company’s lenders.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Not required.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
COVID-19 Considerations
The Company’s priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic are protecting the health and safety of our employees and, especially in the healthcare segment, deploying our resources, including the talents of our employees, to help the communities we serve meet and overcome the current challenges. In the future, the pandemic may continue to cause reduced demand for our services if, for example, the pandemic results in a prolonged recessionary economic environment affecting industries in which we serve; however, since certain services that we offer are essential to the daily lives of our customers, we believe that over the long term, there will continue to be demand for our services.
Our ability to continue to operate without any significant negative operational impact from the COVID-19 pandemic will in part depend on our ability to protect our employees and our supply chain. The Company has endeavored to follow the recommended actions of government and health authorities to protect our employees, with particular measures in place for those working in our customer facilities. For the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, while our revenue, gross profit and operating income were negatively impacted, we maintained the consistency of our operations, to a substantial degree, during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We intend to continue to adhere to our employee safety measures as we seek to ensure that any disruptions to our operations remain as limited as possible during the pandemic. However, the uncertainty resulting from the pandemic could result in an unforeseen disruption to our workforce and supply chain (for example, an inability of a key supplier or transportation supplier to source and transport materials) that could negatively impact our operations.
For additional information on risk factors related to the pandemic or other risks that could impact our results, please refer to “Risk Factors” in Part II, Item 1A of this Form 10-K. For additional information on how COVID-19 has impacted operations and our financial position, please refer to the Segment Discussion and Liquidity and Capital Resources sections in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Overview
RCM participates in a market that is cyclical in nature and sensitive to economic changes. As a result, the impact of economic changes on revenue and operations can be substantial, resulting in significant volatility in the Company’s financial performance.
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic, which continues to present various health, business and other challenges throughout the United States. As a result, we have temporarily closed most of our office locations, with most of our workforce working from home, and have seen a reduction in customer demand, all resulting in a negative impact on Company revenue, gross profit and operating income. The duration and ultimate magnitude of the disruption remains uncertain. We experienced a negative impact in fiscal 2020 and we expect this matter to negatively impact our business, results of operations, and financial position also through at least the first half of fiscal 2021 and likely beyond. The related financial impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this time. Please see more detailed disclosure by segment in our Segment Discussion and the impact to our consolidated financial position under Financial Activities under Liquidity and Capital Resources, all in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
The Company believes it has developed and assembled an attractive portfolio of capabilities, established a proven record of performance and credibility and built an efficient pricing structure. The Company is committed to optimizing its business model as a single-source premier provider of business and technology solutions with a strong vertical focus offering an integrated suite of services through a global delivery platform.
The Company believes that most companies recognize the importance of advanced technologies and business processes to compete in today’s business climate. However, the process of designing, developing and implementing business and technology solutions is becoming increasingly complex. The Company believes that many businesses today are focused on return on investment analysis in prioritizing their initiatives. This has had an adverse impact on spending by current and prospective clients for many emerging new solutions.
Nonetheless, the Company continues to believe that businesses must implement more advanced information technology and engineering solutions to upgrade their systems, applications and processes so that they can maximize their productivity and optimize their performance in order to maintain a competitive advantage. Although working under budgetary, personnel and expertise constraints, companies are driven to support increasingly complex systems, applications and processes of significant strategic value. This has given rise to a demand for outsourcing. The Company believes that its current and prospective clients are continuing to evaluate the potential for outsourcing business critical systems, applications and processes.
The Company provides project management and consulting services, which are billed based on either agreed-upon fixed fees or hourly rates, or a combination of both. The billing rates and profit margins for project management and solutions services are generally higher than those for professional consulting services. The Company generally endeavors to expand its sales of higher margin solutions and project management services. The Company also realizes revenue from client engagements that range from the placement of contract and temporary technical consultants to project assignments that entail the delivery of end-to-end solutions. These services are primarily provided to the client at hourly rates that are established for each of the Company’s consultants based upon their skill level, experience and the type of work performed.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Overview (Continued)
The majority of the Company’s services are provided under purchase orders. Contracts are utilized on certain of the more complex assignments where the engagements are for longer terms or where precise documentation on the nature and scope of the assignment is necessary. Although contracts normally relate to longer-term and more complex engagements, they do not obligate the customer to purchase a minimum level of services and are generally terminable by the customer on 60 to 90 days’ notice. The Company, from time to time, enters into contracts requiring the completion of specific deliverables. Typically these contracts are for less than one year. The Company recognizes revenue on these deliverables at the time the client accepts and approves the deliverables.
Costs of services consist primarily of salaries and compensation-related expenses for billable consultants and employees, including payroll taxes, employee benefits and insurance. Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and benefits of personnel responsible for business development, recruiting, operating activities, and training, and include corporate overhead expenses. Corporate overhead expenses relate to salaries and benefits of personnel responsible for corporate activities, including the Company’s corporate marketing, administrative and financial reporting responsibilities and acquisition program. The Company records these expenses when incurred. Corporate overhead expenses are allocated to the segments based on revenue for the purpose of segment financial reporting.
Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates
This Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations is based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amount of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. In our consolidated financial statements, estimates are used for, but not limited to, accounts receivable and allowance for doubtful accounts, goodwill, long-lived intangible assets, accounting for stock options and restricted stock awards, insurance liabilities, accounting for income taxes and accrued bonuses.
Revenue Recognition
The Company records revenue under Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. Revenue is recognized when we satisfy a performance obligation by transferring services promised in a contract to a customer, in an amount that reflects the consideration that we expect to receive in exchange for those services. Performance obligations in our contracts represent distinct or separate service streams that we provide to our customers.
We evaluate our revenue contracts with customers based on the five-step model under ASC 606: (1) Identify the contract with the customer; (2) Identify the performance obligations in the contract; (3) Determine the transaction price; (4) Allocate the transaction price to separate performance obligations; and (5) Recognize revenue when (or as) each performance obligation is satisfied.
The Company derives its revenue from several sources. The Company’s Engineering Services and Information Technology Services segments perform consulting and project solution services. The Healthcare segment specializes in long-term and short-term staffing and placement services to hospitals, schools and long-term care facilities amongst others. All of the Company’s segments perform staff augmentation services and derive revenue from permanent placement fees. The majority of the Company’s revenue is invoiced on a time and materials basis.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Revenue Recognition (Continued)
The following table presents our revenues disaggregated by revenue source for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 and fifty-two week period December 28, 2019:
January 2,
December 28,
Engineering:
Time and Material
$43,359
$55,195
Fixed Fee
14,145
12,678
Permanent Placement Services
-
Total Engineering
$57,715
$67,873
Specialty Health Care:
Time and Material
$59,692
$88,057
Permanent Placement Services
1,291
Total Specialty Health Care
$60,481
$89,348
Information Technology:
Time and Material
$31,723
$33,384
Permanent Placement Services
Total Information Technology
$32,213
$33,879
$150,409
$191,100
Time and Material
The Company’s IT and Healthcare segments predominantly recognize revenue through time and material work while its Engineering segment recognizes revenue through both time and material and fixed fee work. The Company’s time and material contracts are typically based on the number of hours worked at contractually agreed upon rates, therefore revenue associated with these time and materials contracts are recognized based on hours worked at contracted rates.
Fixed fee
From time to time and predominantly in our Engineering segment, the Company will enter into contracts requiring the completion of specific deliverables. The Company has master services agreements with many of its customers that broadly define terms and conditions. Actual services performed under fixed fee arrangements are typically delivered under purchase orders that more specifically define terms and conditions related to that fixed fee project. While these master services agreements can often span several years, the Company’s fixed fee purchase orders are typically performed over six to nine month periods. In instances where project services are provided on a fixed-price basis, revenue is recorded in accordance with the terms of each contract. In certain instances, revenue is invoiced at the time certain milestones are reached, as defined in the contract. Revenue under these arrangements are recognized as the costs on these contracts are incurred. On an infrequent basis, amounts paid in excess of revenue earned and recognized are recorded as deferred revenue, included in accounts payable and accrued expenses on the accompanying condensed balance sheets. In other instances, revenue is billed and recorded based upon contractual rates per hour. Additionally, some contracts contain “Performance Fees” (bonuses) for completing a contract under budget. Performance Fees, if any, are recorded when earned. Some contracts also limit revenue and billings to specified maximum amounts. Provisions for contract losses, if any, are made in the period such losses are determined. For contracts where there is a specific deliverable and the work is not complete and the revenue is not recognized, the costs incurred are deferred as a prepaid asset. The associated costs are expensed when the related revenue is recognized.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Revenue Recognition (Continued)
Permanent Placement Services
The Company earns permanent placement fees from providing permanent placement services. These fees are typically based on a percentage of the compensation paid to the person placed with the Company’s client.
The deferred revenue balance as of January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019 was $0.4 million. These amounts are included in accounts payable and accrued expense in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at that date. Revenue is recognized when the service has been performed. Deferred revenue may be recognized over a period exceeding one year from the time it was recorded on the balance sheet, although this is an infrequent occurrence. For the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 and the fifty-two week period ended December 28, 2019, the Company recognized revenue of $0.4 million and $0.2 million, respectively, that was included in deferred revenue at the beginning of the reporting period.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
The Company’s accounts receivable are primarily due from trade customers. Credit is extended based on evaluation of customers’ financial condition and, generally, collateral is not required. Accounts receivable payment terms vary and are stated in the financial statements at amounts due from customers net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. Accounts outstanding longer than the payment terms are considered past due. The Company determines its allowance by considering a number of factors, including the length of time trade accounts receivable are past due, the Company’s previous loss history, the customer’s current ability to pay its obligation to the Company, and the condition of the general economy and the industry as a whole. The Company writes off accounts receivable when they become uncollectible, and payments subsequently received on such receivables previously written off are credited to bad debt expense.
Goodwill
Goodwill is not amortized but is subject to periodic testing for impairment in accordance with ASC Topic 350 “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Testing Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets for Impairment” (“ASC Topic 350”). The Company tests goodwill for impairment on an annual basis as of the last day of the Company’s fiscal December each year or more frequently if events occur or circumstances change indicating that the fair value of the goodwill may be below its carrying amount. The Company has three reporting units. The Company uses a market-based approach to determine the fair value of the reporting units. This approach uses earnings/revenue multiples of similar companies recently completing acquisitions and the ability of our reporting units to generate cash flows as measures of fair value of our reporting units. The Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2017-04, “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment” effective December 29, 2018 which has eliminated Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. Under this update, an entity should perform its goodwill impairment test by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount.
There was no goodwill impairment in fiscal 2020 or 2019. During all periods presented, the Company determined that the existing qualitative factors did not suggest that an impairment of goodwill exists. There can be no assurance that future indicators of impairment and tests of goodwill impairment will not result in impairment charges for both its Engineering and Specialty Healthcare segments.
Long-Lived and Intangible Assets
The Company evaluates long-lived assets and intangible assets with definite lives for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. When the Company determines that it is probable that undiscounted future cash flows will not be sufficient to recover an asset’s carrying amount, the asset is written down to its fair value. Assets to be disposed of by sale, if any, are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Accounting for Restricted Stock Awards
The Company uses restricted stock awards to attract, retain and reward employees for long-term service. The Company follows Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 718 “Compensation - Stock Compensation” which requires that the compensation cost relating to stock-based payment transactions be recognized in the financial statements. This compensation cost is measured based on the fair value of the equity or liability instruments issued. The Company measures stock-based compensation cost using the Black-Scholes option pricing model for stock options and the fair value of the underlying common stock at the date of grant for restricted stock awards.
Insurance Liabilities
The Company has risk participation arrangements with respect to workers compensation and health care insurance. The Company establishes loss provisions based on historical experience and in the case of expected losses from workers compensation, considers input from third parties. The amounts included in the Company’s costs related to this risk participation are estimated and can vary based on changes in assumptions, the Company’s claims experience or the providers included in the associated insurance programs.
Accounting for Income Taxes
In establishing the provision for income taxes and deferred income tax assets and liabilities and valuation allowances against deferred tax assets, the Company makes judgments and interpretations based on enacted tax laws, published tax guidance and estimates of future earnings. As of January 2, 2021, the Company had both domestic and foreign net deferred tax assets of $2.9 million. The domestic long term net deferred tax assets of $3.3 million includes $4.9 million in deferred assets offset by $1.6 million in deferred tax liabilities. The domestic deferred tax assets consist of a net operating loss carryforward of $2.6 million and various deferred expense accruals and reserves of $2.3 million. The deferred tax liabilities consist of acquisition amortization of $0.7 million, prepaid expenses of $0.6 million and advance depreciation deductions of $0.3 million. The realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the likelihood that future taxable income will be sufficient to realize these benefits over time, and the effectiveness of tax planning strategies in the relevant tax jurisdictions. If actual results differ from these estimates and assessments, valuation allowances may be required. The Company also had $0.4 million in foreign net deferred tax liabilities as of January 2, 2021.
The Company conducts its operations in multiple tax jurisdictions in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Serbia. The Company and its subsidiaries file a consolidated United States Federal income tax return and file in various states. The Company’s federal income tax returns have been examined through 2017. The Company has no open Federal audits as of January 2, 2021. The State of New Jersey is currently examining fiscal tax years 2009 through 2012. Except for New Jersey and other limited exceptions, the Company is no longer subject to audits by state and local tax authorities for tax years prior to 2017. The Company is no longer subject to audit in Canada for the tax years prior to tax year 2016. The Company is no longer subject to audit in Puerto Rico for the tax years prior to tax year 2010.
The Company’s future effective tax rates could be adversely affected by changes in the valuation of its deferred tax assets or liabilities or changes in tax laws or interpretations thereof. In addition, the Company is subject to the examination of its income tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service and other tax authorities. The Company regularly assesses the likelihood of adverse outcomes resulting from these examinations to determine the adequacy of its provision for income taxes.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Accrued Bonuses
The Company pays bonuses to certain executive management, field management and corporate employees based on, or after giving consideration to, a variety of financial performance measures. Bonuses for executive management, field management and certain corporate employees are accrued throughout the year for payment during the first quarter of the following year, based in part upon anticipated annual results compared to annual budgets. In addition, the Company pays discretionary bonuses to certain employees, which are not related to budget performance. Variances in actual results versus budgeted amounts can have a significant impact on the calculations and therefore on the estimates of the required accruals. Accordingly, the actual earned bonuses may be materially different from the estimates used to determine the quarterly accruals.
Performance-Based Restricted Stock Awards
From time-to-time the Company issues performance-based restricted stock awards to its executives. Performance-based restricted stock awards are typically vested based on certain multi-year performance metrics as determined by the Board of Directors Compensation Committee. The Company will reassess at each reporting date whether achievement of any performance condition is probable and would begin recognizing additional compensation cost if and when achievement of the performance condition becomes probable. The Company will then recognize the appropriate expense cumulatively in the year performance becomes probable and recognize the remaining compensation cost over the remaining requisite service period. If at a later measurement date the Company determines that performance-based restricted stock awards deemed as likely to vest are deemed as unlikely to vest, the expense recognized will be reversed. These performance-based restricted stock awards typically include dividend accrual equivalents, which means that any dividends paid by the Company during the vesting period become due and payable after the vesting period on any stock awards that actually vest, if any. Dividends for these grants are accrued on the dividend payment dates and included in accounts payable and accrued expenses on the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. Dividends for performance-based restricted stock awards that ultimately do not vest are forfeited.
Forward-looking Information
The Company’s growth prospects are influenced by broad economic trends. The pace of customer capital spending programs, new product launches and similar activities have a direct impact on the need for engineering and information technology services. When the U.S., Canadian or global economies decline, the Company’s operating performance could be adversely impacted. In addition, global events such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic also have a substantial impact on our operations and financial results. The Company believes that its fiscal discipline, strategic focus on targeted vertical markets and diversification of service offerings provides some insulation from adverse trends. However, general economic declines could result in the need for future cost reductions or changes in strategy.
Additionally, changes in government regulations could result in prohibition or restriction of certain types of employment services or the imposition of new or additional employee benefits, licensing or tax requirements with respect to the provision of employment services that may reduce the Company’s future earnings. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to increase the fees charged to its clients in a timely manner and in a sufficient amount to cover increased costs as a result of any of the foregoing.
The consulting and employment services market is highly competitive with limited barriers to entry. The Company competes in global, national, regional and local markets with numerous competitors in all of the Company’s service lines. Price competition in the industries the Company serves is significant, and pricing pressures from competitors and customers are increasing. The Company expects that the level of competition will remain high in the future, which could limit the Company’s ability to maintain or increase its market share or profitability.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2021 Compared to Fiscal Year Ended December 28, 2019
A summary of operating results for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 and the fifty-two week period ended December 28, 2019 is as follows (in thousands):
Fiscal Years Ended
January 2, 2021
December 28, 2019
Amount
% of Revenue
Amount
% of Revenue
Revenues
$150,409
100.0
$191,100
100.0
Cost of services
111,554
74.2
142,508
74.6
Gross profit
38,855
25.8
48,592
25.4
Selling, general and administrative
37,551
25.0
40,390
21.1
Depreciation and amortization of property and
equipment
1,065
0.7
1,261
0.7
Amortization of acquired intangible assets
0.2
0.2
Write-off of receivables and professional fees
incurred related to arbitration
8,397
5.6
-
-
Impairment of right of use assets and related costs
2,231
1.5
-
-
Tax credit professional fees
0.1
0.0
Operating costs and expenses
49,805
33.1
42,025
22.0
Operating (loss) income
(10,950
)
(7.3
)
6,567
3.4
Other expense, net
(1,107
)
(0.7
)
(1,745
)
(0.9
)
(Loss) income before income taxes
(12,057
)
(8.0
)
4,822
2.5
Income tax (benefit) expense
(3,188
)
(2.1
)
0.4
Net (loss) income
($8,869
)
(5.9
)
$4,058
2.1
The Company follows a 52/53 week fiscal reporting calendar ending on the Saturday closest to December 31. The fiscal years ended January 2, 2021 (fiscal 2020) and December 28, 2019 (fiscal 2019) consisted of fifty-three weeks and fifty-two weeks, respectively.
Revenue. Revenue decreased 21.3%, or $40.7 million, for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to the fifty-two week period ended December 28, 2019 (the “comparable prior year period”). Revenue decreased $10.1 million in the Engineering segment, $28.9 million in the Specialty Health Care segment and $1.7 million in the Information Technology segment. See Segment Discussion for further information on revenue changes.
Cost of Services and Gross Profit. Cost of services decreased 21.7%, or $31.0 million, for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to the comparable prior year period. Cost of services decreased primarily due to the decrease in revenue. Cost of services as a percentage of revenue for the fifty-three week periods ended January 2, 2021 and the fifty-two week period ended December 28, 2019 were 74.2% and 74.6%, respectively. See Segment Discussion for further information regarding changes in cost of services and gross profit.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2021 Compared to Fiscal Year Ended December 28, 2019
Selling, General and Administrative. Selling, general and administrative (“SGA”) expenses were $37.6 million for the fifty-three week periods ended January 2, 2021 as compared to $40.4 million for the comparable prior year period. As a percentage of revenue, SGA expenses were 25.0% for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 and 21.1% for the comparable prior year period. See Segment Discussion for further information on SGA expense changes.
Write-off of receivables and professional fees incurred related to arbitration. The Company recorded a charge of $8.4 million during the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 relating to its dispute with a customer that is a major utility in the United States. This dispute was resolved through binding arbitration April 2020. The charge consisted of $6.7 million for the portion of accounts receivable previously recognized by the Company that was not awarded by the arbitrator, $0.7 million from other projects with this customer that were not part of the arbitration, $0.8 million in professional fees related to the dispute and arbitration and $0.2 million of transit accounts receivable associated with disputed projects that were part of the arbitration. The Company decided to write off the $0.7 million of accounts receivable from other projects not part of the arbitration for business reasons. For the fifty-two week period December 28, 2019, there were no such impairment charges.
Impairment of Office Leases. In connection with the continuing developments from COVID-19, the Company has reduced its leased office space as a result of its employees moving to a remote work environment. The Company does not believe there is an opportunity to sublet any of the vacant office space due to the current commercial rental marketplace. This decision and reduction in the use of the office spaces resulted in a right-of-use asset impairment of $1.9 million. This loss was determined by identifying the fair value of the impacted right-of-use assets as compared to the carrying value of the assets as of the measurement date, in accordance with Property, Plant and Equipment Topic of the FASB ASC. The fair value of the right-of-use assets was based on the remaining term of each lease. In addition, the Company wrote off a total of $0.3 million in other office lease costs and for obsolete equipment.
Tax Credit Professional Fees. The Company incurred $0.2 million in tax credit professional fees in the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to de minimis tax credit professional fees in the comparable prior year period.
Other Expense. Other expense consists of interest expense, unused line fees and amortized loan costs on the Company’s line of credit, net of interest income, imputed interest on contingent consideration and gains and losses on foreign currency transactions. Other expense, net decreased to $1.1 million as compared to $1.7 million for the comparable prior year period. The primary component of the decrease related to interest expense, which decreased primarily due to a decreased average borrowing and a decreased borrowing rate under the Company’s line of credit. The primary reason for the decreased average borrowing rate was change in macroeconomic borrowing rates.
Income Tax (Benefit) Expense. The Company recognized $3.2 million of income tax benefit for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, as compared to an income tax expense of $0.8 million for the comparable prior year period. The consolidated effective income tax rate for the current period was 26.4% as compared to 15.8% for the comparable prior year period. The Company considers its fiscal 2020 effective tax rate within the range of typical expectations, while its 2019 effective tax rate is comparatively low. The primary reason for the lower 2019 effective tax rate is that the Company experienced an R&D tax credit of $0.7 million. The effective fiscal 2020 income tax rates for the fifty-three weeks ended January 2, 2021, were 25.8%, 25.6%, and 15.8% in the United States, Canada, and Serbia, respectively. The relative income or loss generated in each jurisdiction can materially impact the overall effective income tax rate of the Company, particularly the ratio of Canadian and Serbian pretax income versus U.S. pretax income.
Differences between the effective tax rate and the applicable U.S. federal statutory rate may arise, primarily from the effect of state and local income taxes, share-based compensation, and potential tax credits available to the Company. Actual effective tax rates may vary depending on the actual operating income earned in various jurisdictions, the potential availability of tax credits, and the exercise of stock options and vesting of share-based awards.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2021 Compared to Fiscal Year Ended December 28, 2019 (Continued)
Segment Discussion
Engineering
Engineering revenues of $57.7 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 decreased 15.0%, or $10.1 million, as compared to the comparable prior year period. The decrease was due to decreases of $5.1 million from the Company’s Aerospace Group, $3.6 million from the Company’s Energy Services/Industrial Processing Groups and $1.5 million from the Company’s Canadian Power Systems Group. The Company attributes these revenue declines to decreased spending on the part of several of its larger clients, a decrease in demand for power generation services, increased competition from other vendors to its Canadian Power Systems and Aerospace clients, timing of large projects from the Company’s Energy Services clients, all of which factors are impacted by COVID-19. Gross profit decreased by 10.8%, or $2.0 million, as compared to the comparable prior year period. Gross profit decreased primarily because of the decrease in revenue, offset by improvement to gross profit margin. Gross profit margin of 28.6% for the current period increased from 27.2% for the comparable prior year period. The increase in gross margin was primarily due to a concerted effort to improve utilization of the Engineering segment’s billable consultants and a focus on higher-margin project work as opposed to lower-margin staffing. The Engineering segment experienced an operating loss of $5.8 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, as compared to operating income of $3.7 million for the comparable prior year period. The primary reason for the operating loss in the current period was the $8.4 million write-off of receivables and professional fees incurred related to a discrete arbitration, offset by a decrease of $0.7 million to SGA expense. The decrease in SGA expense was primarily due to a concerted effort to reduce expenses to an efficient level commensurate with current revenue and gross profit.
COVID-19 Impact to Engineering Segment
It is difficult to assess both the current and future impact from COVID-19 to the Engineering segment, due to the high degree of uncertainty around COVID-19 and the duration and extent of the pandemic. The Engineering segment has seen a decline in its field services work as its personnel has limited access to client facilities. It is difficult to determine the impact on revenue from the loss in field services work. The Company believes that an undetermined amount of field services work will eventually return as a portion of that work is mission-critical to our clients. However, given the uncertainties around COVID-19, the Company can give no assurances that it will see an increase in field services revenue. Additionally, the Company believes that COVID-19 has had a significant adverse impact on the budgets of many of its Aerospace and Utilities clients. Many of the Company’s Aerospace clients have seen an impact to their commercial lines of business. A number of the Company’s Utility clients have been impacted by their customers’ inability to pay their monthly electric bills.
The Company has transitioned most of its Engineering workforce to work from home. While this has constituted a significant effort, particularly from a technology standpoint, the Company believes that this effort has been completed relatively effectively. The Company also believes that its Engineering clients have been generally supportive of these efforts and believes further that it has not lost any significant, previously awarded work. The Engineering segment continues to see new work proposals, but not at the same level as seen prior to COVID-19. The Engineering segment’s general response to the effects of COVID-19 is to continue to focus on maximizing gross margin by focusing on utilization of billable consultants and maximizing the efficiency of its SGA expense. The Engineering segment and the Company, as a whole, is focused on reducing its SGA expense in the short-term while not harming the Company in the long-term. The Company plans to refine its strategy for responding to COVID-19 as necessary as the situation develops.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Segment Discussion (Continued)
Specialty Health Care
Specialty Health Care revenue of $60.5 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 decreased 32.3%, or $28.9 million, as compared to the comparable prior year period. The decrease in revenue was primarily driven by school closures related to COVID-19 (see below). The Specialty Health Care segment’s gross profit decreased by 36.0%, or $7.5 million, to $13.4 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, as compared to $20.9 million for the prior year period. The decrease in gross profit was primarily driven by a decrease in revenue and a decrease in gross profit margin. Gross profit margin for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 decreased to 22.1% as compared to 23.4% for the comparable prior year period. The Company primarily attributes the decrease in gross profit margin to a shift in mix, as the Specialty Health Care’s non-school services typically generate lower gross margin than school services. Specialty Health Care experienced an operating loss of $2.5 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, as compared to operating income of $2.9 million for the comparable prior year period. The primary reason for the decrease in operating income was the decrease to revenue, gross profit, and gross profit margin, primarily resulting from sudden school closures (see below). SGA expense decreased by $2.1 million to $15.5 million, as compared to $17.6 million in the comparable prior year period. The decrease in SGA expense was primarily due to a concerted effort to reduce SGA expense in response to the impact of COVID-19 on school services revenue, a decrease in variable SGA expense related to gross profit, and a lower allocation of corporate-generated SGA expense.
COVID-19 Impact to Specialty Health Care Segment
It is difficult to assess both the current and future impact from COVID-19 to the Specialty Health Care segment, due to the high degree of uncertainty around COVID-19 and the duration and extent of the pandemic, especially as it may impact schools where many of our personnel work. While the Company has worked to transition a portion of its Specialty Health Care workforce to work from home, this has been a difficult task. The Specialty Health Care segment has a small number of billable professionals performing services from home, in particular telehealth services. The Specialty Health Care segment’s telehealth services are primarily a new service offering. The majority of the Specialty Health Care segment’s services are historically delivered at schools and health care facilities. The Company believes that demand for much of its non-school services is very high as a result of COVID-19. However, health care professionals, such as nurses and doctors, are scarce and difficult to recruit. Furthermore, the demand for non-COVID-19 related healthcare services has been reduced as a result of the pandemic.
The Specialty Health Care Segment has historically derived much of its revenue from school systems. Many school systems nationwide, including most of the Company’s school clients, closed down for in-person instruction in March 2020. Some have reopened partially with a combination of in-person and virtual lessons, while some have remained entirely virtual. The Company has limited information on when, and in what manner, they will reopen in a comparable manner as to how they operated before COVID-19. Many schools are under pressure by employee unions to reduce or eliminate in-person classes. Any announced plans are subject to rapid changes.
The Specialty Health Care's largest school clients are the New York City Department of Education, the Hawaii Department of Education, and the Chicago Public School System. There are numerous factors that could influence further decisions of these school systems on their operations. Any shift toward hybrid and remote operations has a materially negative impact on revenue generated by the Specialty Healthcare segment.
The Specialty Health Care segment generated $37.3 million in revenue from schools for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, as compared to $65.6 million for the comparable prior year period. It is difficult to estimate the impact of the school closures and reopenings on the Company’s fiscal 2021 and beyond. The Company believes that at some point in the future, its school clients will return to a normalized level of operations. However, the Company can give no assurance of when or even if this normalization will occur.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2021 Compared to Fiscal Year Ended December 28, 2019 (Continued)
Segment Discussion (Continued)
The Specialty Health Care segment continues to see new work proposals related to non-school related revenue streams. The Specialty Health Care segment’s general response to the effects of COVID-19 is to continue to focus on maximizing gross margin by focusing on utilization of billable personnel and maximizing the efficiency of its SGA expense. The Specialty Health Care segment has made significant reductions to its SGA cost structure. The Specialty Health Care segment and the Company, as a whole, are focused on reducing SGA expense in the short-term while not harming the Company in the long-term. The Company plans to refine its strategy for responding to COVID-19 as necessary as the situation develops.
Information Technology
Information Technology revenue of $32.2 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 decreased 4.9%, or $1.7 million, as compared to $33.9 million for the comparable prior year period. The Information Technology segment’s revenue declined across most of its lines of business. The Company generally attributes the decrease to the impact of COVID-19 as its runoff of backlog has not been adequately replaced with new business. Gross profit of $9.0 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 decreased 2.4%, or $0.2 million, as compared to $9.2 million for the comparable prior year period. The decrease in gross profit was primarily due to the decrease in revenue, partially offset by an increase in gross profit margin. The Information Technology gross profit margin for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 was 27.9% as compared to 27.2% for the comparable prior year period. The Company attributes the gross profit margin increase to higher utilization of the Information Technology’s fixed labor consultants and a concerted effort to increase gross profit margin. SGA expense was $9.1 million for both periods presented. The Information Technology segment experienced an operating loss of $0.2 million as compared to a small amount of operating income for the comparable prior year period. The decrease in operating income was primarily due to the decrease in revenue and gross profit.
It is difficult to assess both the current and future impact from COVID-19 to the Information Technology segment, due to the high degree of uncertainty around COVID-19 and the duration and extent of the pandemic. The Information Technology segment has seen a decline in its field services work as its personnel has limited access to client facilities. It is difficult to determine the impact on revenue from the loss in field services work.
COVID-19 Impact to Information Technology Segment
The Company has transitioned most of its Information Technology workforce to work from home. While this has constituted a significant effort, particularly from a technology standpoint, the Company believes that this effort has been completed relatively effectively. The Company also believes that its Information Technology clients have been generally supportive of these efforts and believes further that it has not lost any significant, previously awarded work. The Information Technology segment continues to see new work proposals, but not at the same level as seen prior to COVID-19. The Information Technology segment’s general response to the effects of COVID-19 is to continue to focus on maximizing gross margin by focusing on utilization of billable consultants and maximizing the efficiency of its SGA expense. The Information Technology segment and the Company, as a whole, is focused on reducing its SGA expense in the short-term while not harming the Company in the long-term. The Company plans to refine its strategy for responding to COVID-19 as necessary as the situation develops.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2021 Compared to Fiscal Year Ended December 28, 2019 (Continued)
Supplemental Operating Results on a Non-GAAP Basis
The following non-GAAP measures, which adjust for the categories of expenses described below, primarily changes in contingent consideration as a result of re-measurement in the amount of contingent consideration we expect to pay with respect to past acquisitions, are non-GAAP financial measures. Our management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures (“EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA”) are useful information for investors, shareholders and other stakeholders of our company in gauging our results of operations on an ongoing basis and to enhance investors’ overall understanding of our current financial performance and period-to-period comparisons. We believe that both EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are performance measures and not liquidity measures, and therefore a reconciliation between net income and EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA has been provided. Neither EBITDA nor Adjusted EBITDA should be considered as an alternative to net income as an indicator of performance. In addition, neither EBITDA nor Adjusted EBITDA takes into account changes in certain assets and liabilities as well as interest and income taxes that can affect cash flows. We do not intend the presentation of these non-GAAP measures to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP measures should be read only in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.
The following unaudited table presents the Company's GAAP Net Income measure and the corresponding adjustments used to calculate “EBITDA” and “Adjusted EBITDA” for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 and the fifty-two week period ended December 28, 2019.
Fifty-Three Week
Period Ended
January 2, 2021
Fifty-Two Week
Period Ended
December 28, 2019
GAAP net (loss) income
($8,869
)
$4,058
Income tax (benefit) expense
(3,188
)
Interest expense
1,695
Change in fair value of contingent consideration
Depreciation of property and equipment
1,065
1,261
Amortization of acquired intangible assets
EBITDA (non-GAAP)
($9,748
)
$8,166
Adjustments
Write-off of receivables and professional fees
incurred related to arbitration
8,397
-
Impairment of right of use assets and related costs
2,231
-
Tax credit professional fees
Gain (loss) on foreign currency transactions
(11
)
Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)
$1,304
$8,202
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The following table summarizes the major captions from the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows ($ in thousands):
Fiscal Years Ended
January 2,
December 28,
Cash (used in) provided by:
Operating activities
$25,203
($4,778
)
Investing activities
($419
)
($363
)
Financing activities
($25,632
)
$6,627
Operating Activities
Operating activities provided $25.2 million of cash for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to using $4.8 million in the comparable prior year period. The major components of cash used in or provided by operating activities in the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 and the comparable prior year period are as follows: net loss or income and changes in accounts receivable, the net of transit accounts payable and transit accounts receivable, prepaid expenses and other current assets, accounts payable and accrued expenses and accrued payroll and related costs.
For the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, the Company experienced a net loss of $8.9 million as compared to net income of $4.1 million for the comparable prior year period. A decrease in accounts receivables in the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, exclusive of the impact of the arbitration resolution, provided $15.9 million of cash as compared to using $7.6 million in the comparable prior year period. The Company primarily attributes this decrease in accounts receivables for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 to the decrease in revenue for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to the fifty-two week period ended December 28, 2019 and the collection of the arbitration award.
The Company’s transit accounts payable usually exceeds the Company’s transit accounts receivable, but absolute amounts and differences fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter in the normal course of business. The net of transit accounts payable and transit accounts receivable was a net payable of $2.4 million as of January 2, 2021 and as compared to a net receivable of $0.3 million as of December 28, 2019, providing $2.7 million of cash during the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021. The net of transit accounts payable and transit accounts receivable was negligible as of December 29, 2018, using $0.3 million of cash during the fifty-two week period ended December 28, 2019.
Prepaid expenses and other current assets used cash of $0.2 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to using $0.6 million of cash for the comparable prior year period. The Company attributes changes to prepaid expenses and other current assets, if any, to general timing of payments in the normal course of business.
An increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses provided cash of $1.6 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to using $3.1 million of cash for the comparable prior year period. The Company attributes these changes to a deliberate effort to defer payments for cash flow purposes and general timing of payments to vendors in the normal course of business. Additionally, the Company accrued $1.7 million for the settlement of a class action suit in California that alleges the Company did not properly pay its travel nurses overtime wages. The Company anticipates this liability will be paid during its fiscal 2021 third quarter.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Liquidity and Capital Resources (Continued)
Operating Activities (Continued)
Changes in accrued payroll and related costs provided $4.6 million for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to using $1.3 million for the fifty-three week period December 28, 2019. There are four primary factors that generally impact accrued payroll and related costs: 1) there is a general correlation to operating expenses as payroll and related costs is the Company’s largest expense group, so as operating costs increase or decrease, absent all other factors, so will the accrued payroll and related costs; 2) the Company pays the majority of its payroll every two weeks and normally has thirteen weeks in a fiscal quarter, which means that the Company normally has a major payroll on the last business day of every other quarter; 3) the timing of various payroll related payments varies in the normal course of business; and 4) most of the Company’s senior management participate in annual incentive plans and while progress advances are sometimes made during the fiscal year, these accrued bonus balances, to the extent they are projected to be achieved, generally accumulate throughout the year. A significant portion of these incentive plan accruals are typically paid at the beginning of one fiscal year, pertaining to the prior fiscal year. The Company’s last major payroll for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 was paid on December 31, 2020. Unique to fiscal 2020 and the primary reason for the increase in accrued payroll and related costs, as of January 2, 2021, the Company also deferred $3.3 million of employer payroll taxes under the CARES Act. These deferred payroll taxes must be paid in two equal installments at the end of calendar years 2021 and 2022.
Investing Activities
Investing activities used cash of $0.4 million for both the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 and the fifty-two week period December 28, 2019. Investing activities primarily consists of expenditures for property and equipment in both periods presented.
Financing Activities
Financing activities used $25.6 million of cash for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to providing $6.7 million in the comparable prior year period. The Company made net repayments under its line of credit of $22.9 million during the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 as compared to net borrowings of $7.2 million in the comparable prior year period. The primary reasons for net payments during the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 was the decrease of $15.9 million in accounts receivable and the $9.3 million in net cash provided by all other operating activities. The Company generated cash of $0.2 million and $0.3 million from sales of shares from its equity plans for the current period and the comparable prior year period, respectively. The Company also used $2.2 million to retire a note payable incurred to repurchase the Company’s common stock. The Company paid $0.3 million of contingent consideration during the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 and $0.6 million during the fifty-two week period December 28, 2019.
Borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility bear interest at one of two alternative rates, as selected by the Company at each incremental borrowing. These alternatives are: (i) LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate), plus applicable margin, typically borrowed in fixed 30-day increments or (ii) the agent bank’s prime rate generally borrowed over shorter durations. The Company also pays unused line fees based on the amount of the Revolving Credit Facility that is not drawn. Unused line fees are recorded as interest expense. The effective weighted average interest rate, including unused line fees, for the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021 was 2.7%.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Liquidity and Capital Resources (Continued)
Financing Activities (Continued)
All borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility are collateralized by all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries and a pledge of the stock of its subsidiaries. The Revolving Credit Facility also contains various financial and non-financial covenants, such as a covenant that restricts on the Company’s ability to borrow in order to pay dividends. As of January 2, 2021, the Company was in compliance with all covenants contained in the Revolving Credit Facility (as amended). The Company believes that it will maintain compliance with its financial covenants for the foreseeable future.
Borrowings under the line of credit as of January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019 were $11.9 million and $34.8 million, respectively. At January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019 there were letters of credit outstanding for $1.9 million and $1.6 million, respectively. At January 2, 2021, the Company had availability for additional borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility of $31.2 million.
On June 2, 2020, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with certain stockholders of the Company, whereby the Company purchased an aggregate of 1,858,139 shares of the Company’s common stock for a negotiated purchase price of $1.20 per share or $2.2 million in total. The negotiated price of $1.20 per share was less than the lowest trading price of the stock on the day of the repurchase. The consideration paid by the Company consisted entirely of an unsecured subordinated promissory note for $2.2 million. The note accrues interest at an annual rate of 9.0%, compounded annually, payable quarterly in arrears commencing on September 1, 2020 and continuing on each December 1, March 1, June 1 and September 1 thereafter, and has a maturity date of August 10, 2023. Subject to the applicable provisions of the subordination agreement among the Company, Citizens Bank and the selling stockholders, the note was to become immediately due and payable in the event of a default by the Company. On September 25, 2020, the Company repaid the subordinated promissory note in full.
Impact to Line of Credit from COVID-19
The Company is negatively impacted by COVID-19. While COVID-19 is expected to continue to negatively impact revenue, gross profit, and operating income for an undetermined period of time, the Company nevertheless does not expect a material negative impact from recent results. If the Company should experience a sudden increase to revenue and a corresponding increase to accounts receivable, the Company will likely experience negative cash flow. In this scenario, the Company would expect to see an increase in operating income and borrowing capacity. As a response to COVID-19, the Company, as a whole, is focused on maximizing the utilization of its billable personnel and reducing its SGA expense in the short-term while not harming the Company in the long-term. The Company plans to refine its strategy for responding to COVID-19 as the situation develops. The Company believes that its current line of credit is adequate to provide the necessary liquidity while COVID-19 impacts its operations. The Company believes that it will be in compliance with the financial covenants in the line of credit for the foreseeable future.
Current Liquidity and Revolving Credit Facility
Liquidity is a measure of our ability to meet potential cash requirements, maintain our assets, fund our operations, and meet the other general cash needs of our business. Our liquidity is impacted by general economic, financial, competitive, and other factors beyond our control. Our liquidity requirements consist primarily of funds necessary to pay our expenses, principally labor-costs, and other related expenditures. We generally satisfy our liquidity needs through cash provided by operations and, when necessary, our revolving line of credit from Citizens Bank. The Company believes it has a great deal of flexibility to reduce its costs if it becomes necessary. The Company believes that it can satisfy its liquidity needs for at least the next twelve months.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Liquidity and Capital Resources (Continued)
Current Liquidity and Revolving Credit Facility (Continued)
The Company’s liquidity and capital resources as of January 2, 2021, included accounts receivable and total current asset balances of $36.0 million and $43.9 million, respectively. Current liabilities were $28.0 million as of January 2, 2021 and were exceeded by total current assets by $15.9 million.
The Company experiences volatility in its daily cash flow and, at times, relies on the revolving line of credit to provide daily liquidity for the Company’s financial operations. As of January 2, 2021, the Company was in compliance with all financial covenants contained in the Revolving Credit Facility. The Company believes that it will maintain compliance with its financial covenants for the foreseeable future.
Dividends
All restricted share awards contain a dividend equivalent provision entitling holders to dividends paid between the restricted stock unit grant date and ultimate share distribution date. As of January 2, 2021, there were no accrued dividends.
While the Company, at this time, has no plans to issue any future dividends, any future payment of dividends will depend upon, among other things, the Company’s earnings, financial condition, capital requirements, level of indebtedness, contractual restrictions, and other factors that the Board of Directors deems relevant. The Revolving Credit Facility (as discussed above) prohibits the payment of any dividends or distributions on account of the Company’s capital stock without the prior consent of the majority of the Company’s lenders.
Commitments and Contingencies
The Company anticipates that its primary uses of capital in future periods will be for working capital purposes. Funding for any long-term and short-term capital requirements as well as future acquisitions will be derived from one or more of the Revolving Credit Facility (or a replacement thereof), funds generated through operations or future financing transactions. The Company is subject to legal proceedings and claims that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of its business, which may or may not be covered by insurance. Were an unfavorable final outcome to occur, there exists the possibility of a material adverse impact on our financial position, liquidity, and the results of operations.
The Company’s business strategy is to achieve growth both internally through operations and externally through strategic acquisitions. The Company from time to time engages in discussions with potential acquisition candidates. The Company has acquired numerous companies throughout its history and those acquisitions have generally included significant future contingent consideration. As the size of the Company and its financial resources increase however, acquisition opportunities requiring significant commitments of capital may arise. In order to pursue such opportunities, the Company may be required to incur debt or issue potentially dilutive securities in the future. No assurance can be given as to the Company’s future acquisition and expansion opportunities or how such opportunities will be financed.
The Company has reserved $1.7 million for the settlement of a class action suit in California that alleges the Company did not properly pay its travel nurses overtime wages. While the Company believes it did not violate any overtime wage laws, it nevertheless decided to settle this class action lawsuit in December 2020. The Company expects to pay the $1.7 million settlement sometime during its third quarter of fiscal 2021. The Company is exposed to other asserted claims as of January 2, 2021, but the Company does not believe any of these other claims have a probability of loss. As of January 2, 2021, the Company did not have an accrual for any such other claims. Furthermore, even if any of these other claims do result in an unfavorable outcome or settlement, the Company believes that such matters will not, either individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on its business, consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Liquidity and Capital Resources (Continued)
Commitments and Contingencies (Continued)
The Company had a dispute with a customer that is a major utility in the United States. Both parties agreed in fiscal 2017 to resolve this dispute through binding arbitration. Arbitration hearings with this customer started in fiscal 2018. Essentially, the customer did not pay the balance of accounts receivable the Company believes were owed for certain disputed projects. As of December 28, 2019, the total amount of recorded receivables from this customer on these disputed projects was $14.1 million. Additionally, as part of the arbitration process, the customer asserted counter-claims of $10.3 million. The arbitrator rendered a decision in this dispute in April 2020, awarding the Company $7.4 million, and the arbitration award was paid during the thirteen week period ended September 26, 2020. The counter-claims asserted against the Company of $10.3 million were denied in their entirety. For the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, the Company recorded a charge of $8.4 million, including $6.7 million constituting the portion of the accounts receivable relating to the disputed projects that was not awarded by the arbitrator, $0.7 million from other projects with this customer that were not part of the arbitration, $0.8 million in professional fees related to the dispute and arbitration, and $0.2 million of transit accounts receivable associated with disputed projects that were part of the arbitration. The Company decided to write off the $0.7 million of accounts receivable from other projects not part of the arbitration for business reasons.
The Company utilizes SAP software for its financial reporting and accounting system which was implemented in 1999 and has not undergone significant upgrades since its initial implementation. The Company believes that it will become necessary to upgrade or replace its SAP financial reporting and accounting system. The Company has not determined when this contemplated replacement may be necessary. The Company estimates this upgrade or replacement of their financial reporting and accounting system will cost between $0.5 million and $1.0 million. These estimates are subject to material change.
The Company’s current commitments consist primarily of lease obligations for office space. The Company believes that its capital resources are sufficient to meet its present obligations and those to be incurred in the normal course of business for at least the next 12 months.
The Company leases office facilities and various equipment under non-cancelable leases expiring at various dates through November 2025. Certain leases are subject to escalation clauses based upon changes in various factors. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the Company in 2020. This led the Company to review the guidance in ASC 360-10 to determine if an impairment of a long lived asset had occurred. It was determined that a portion of the office space leased in a number of locations would not be utilized through the remaining lease term. An impairment of the right of use asset for the unused space of $2.2 million was recorded in 2020.
Maturities of lease liabilities are as follows:
Fiscal Year Ending
Operating
Leases
Finance
Leases
2,019
1,505
-
-
-
Thereafter
-
-
Total lease payments
4,759
Less: imputed interest
(232
)
(11
)
Total
$4,527
$353
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Liquidity and Capital Resources (Continued)
Future Contingent Payments
As of January 2, 2021, the Company had two active acquisition agreements whereby additional contingent consideration may be earned by the former shareholders: 1) effective October 1, 2017, the Company acquired all of the stock of PSR Engineering Solutions d.o.o. Beograd (Voždovac) (“PSR”) and 2) effective September 30, 2018 the Company acquired certain assets of Thermal Kinetics Engineering, PLLC and Thermal Kinetics Systems, LLC (together, “TKE”). The Company estimates future contingent payments at January 2, 2021 as follows:
Fiscal Year Ending
Total
January 1, 2022
December 31, 2022
2,358
Estimated future contingent consideration payments
$2,858
Estimates of future contingent payments are subject to significant judgment and actual payments may materially differ from estimates. Potential future contingent payments to be made to all active acquisitions after January 2, 2021 are capped at a cumulative maximum of $3.1 million. The Company estimates future contingent consideration payments based on forecasted performance and recorded the fair value of those expected payments as of January 2, 2021. During the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, the Company measured the intangibles acquired at fair value on a non-recurring basis. Contingent consideration related to acquisitions are recorded at fair value (level 3) with changes in fair value recorded in other (expense) income, net.
Significant employment agreements are as follows:
Executive Severance Agreements
The Company is a party to Executive Severance Agreements (the “Executive Severance Agreements”) with Mr. Vizi, dated as of June 1, 2018, and Mr. Miller, dated as of February 28, 2014, which set forth the terms and conditions of certain payments to be made by the Company to the executive in the event, while employed by the Company, the executive experiences (a) a termination of employment unrelated to a “Change in Control” (as defined therein) or (b) there occurs a Change in Control and either (i) the executive’s employment is terminated for a reason related to the Change in Control or (ii) in the case of Mr. Miller, Mr. Miller the executive remains continuously employed with the Company for three months following the Change in Control.
Under the terms of the Executive Severance Agreement, if either (a) the executive is involuntarily terminated by the Company for any reason other than “Cause” (as defined therein), “Disability” (as defined therein) or death, or (b) the executive resigns for “Good Reason” (as defined therein), and, in each case, the termination is not a “Termination Related to a Change in Control” (as defined below), the executive will receive the following severance payments: (i) an amount equal to 1.5 times the sum of (a) the executive’s annual base salary as in effect immediately prior to the termination date (before taking into account any reduction that constitutes Good Reason) (“Annual Base Salary”) and (b) the highest annual bonus paid to the executive in any of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the executive’s termination date (“Bonus”), to be paid in installments over the twelve month period following the executive’s termination date; and (ii) for a period of eighteen months following the executive’s termination date, a monthly payment equal to the monthly COBRA premium that the executive is required to pay to continue medical, vision, and dental coverage, for himself and, where applicable, his spouse and eligible dependents.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
Liquidity and Capital Resources (Continued)
Future Contingent Payments (Continued)
Executive Severance Agreements (Continued)
Notwithstanding the above, if the executive has a termination as described above and can reasonably demonstrate that such termination would constitute a Termination Related to a Change in Control, and a Change in Control occurs within 120 days following the executive’s termination date, the executive will be entitled to receive the payments set forth below for a Termination Related to a Change in Control, less any amounts already paid to the executive, upon consummation of the Change in Control.
Under the terms of the Executive Severance Agreement, if a Change in Control occurs and (a) the executive experiences a Termination Related to a Change in Control on account of (i) an involuntary termination by the Company for any reason other than Cause, death, or Disability, (ii) an involuntary termination by the Company within a specified period of time following a Change in Control (12 months for Mr. Vizi and three months for Mr. Miller) on account of Disability or death, or (iii) a resignation by the executive with Good Reason; or (b) in the case of Mr. Miller, the executive resigns, with or without Good Reason, which results in a termination date that is the last day of the three month period following the Change in Control, then the executive will receive the following severance payments: (1) a lump sum payment equal to two times the sum of the executive’s (a) Annual Base Salary and (b) Bonus; and (2) a lump sum payment equal to 24 multiplied by the monthly COBRA premium cost, as in effect immediately prior to the executive’s termination date, for the executive to continue medical, dental and vision coverage, as applicable, in such Company plans for himself and, if applicable, his spouse and eligible dependents. Upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, the Company shall establish an irrevocable rabbi trust and contribute to the rabbi trust the applicable amounts due under the Executive Severance Agreement. If Mr. Miller receives the Change in Control Payment following his resignation at the end of the three month period following the Change in Control, he will not be eligible to receive any severance payments under his Executive Severance Agreement.
Mr. Miller’s Executive Severance Agreement provides that if Mr. Miller remains continuously employed for three months following a Change in Control and is employed by the Company on the last day of such specified period, Mr. Miller will receive a lump sum payment equal to two times the sum of his (a) Annual Base Salary and (b) Bonus (the “Change in Control Payment”). If Mr. Miller receives the Change in Control Payment, he will not be eligible to receive any severance payments under his Executive Severance Agreement.
Mr. Saks, along with several other members of the Company’s senior management (not including Mr. Vizi and Mr. Miller), is covered by our Change in Control Plan for Selected Executive Management (the “CIC Plan”).
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
None.
Impact of Inflation
Consulting, staffing, and project services are generally priced based on mark-ups on prevailing rates of pay, and as a result are able to generally maintain their relationship to direct labor costs. Permanent placement services are priced as a function of salary levels of the job candidates.
The Company’s business is labor intensive; therefore, the Company has a high exposure to increasing health care benefit costs. The Company attempts to compensate for these escalating costs in its business cost models and customer pricing by passing along some of these increased health care benefit costs to its customers and employees, however, the Company has not been able to pass on all increases. The Company is continuing to review its options to further control these costs, which the Company does not believe are representative of general inflationary trends. Otherwise, inflation has not been a meaningful factor in the Company’s operations.
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (CONTINUED)
New Accounting Standards
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326). The new standard amends guidance on reporting credit losses for assets held at amortized cost basis and available-for-sale debt securities. In February 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-02, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326) and Leases (Topic 842) - Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 119 and Update to SEC Section on Effective Date Related to Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which amends the effective date of the original pronouncement for smaller reporting companies. ASU 2016-13 and its amendments will be effective for the Company for interim and annual periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022. The Company believes the adoption will modify the way the Company analyzes financial instruments, but it does not anticipate a material impact on results of operations. The Company is in the process of determining the effects the adoption will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements.
In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting. This standard only applies to contracts and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued due to reference rate reform. This guidance provides temporary optional expedients and exceptions to accounting guidance on contract modifications and hedge accounting to ease entities’ financial reporting burdens as the market transitions from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other interbank offered rates to alternative reference rates. The Company may elect to apply the amendments prospectively through December 31, 2022. The Company is currently evaluating the impact this guidance will have on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
ITEM 7A.
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
The Company’s exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to the Company’s investment portfolio and debt instruments, which primarily consist of the Revolving Credit Facility. The Company does not have any derivative financial instruments in its portfolio. The Company places its investments in instruments that meet high credit quality standards. The Company is adverse to principal loss and ensures the safety and preservation of its invested funds by limiting default risk, market risk and reinvestment risk. As of September 26, 2020, the Company’s investments consisted of cash and money market funds. The Company does not use interest rate derivative instruments to manage its exposure to interest rate changes. Based on the Company’s variable-rate line of credit balances during the fifty-three week period ended January 2, 2021, if the interest rate on the Company’s variable-rate line of credit (using an incremental borrowing rate) during the period had been 1.0% higher, the Company’s interest expense on an annualized basis would have increased by $0.2 million. The Company does not expect any material loss with respect to its investment portfolio.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
ITEM 8.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
The financial statements, together with the report of the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, begins on page.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
ITEM 9.
CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
None.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
ITEM 9A.
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
The Company’s management, under the supervision and with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that those disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
A controls system, no matter how well designed and operated, cannot provide absolute assurance that the objectives of the controls system are met, and no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within a company have been detected.
As management prepares and executes a virtual financial close process, for the first time, there could be related implications on the internal controls performed specifically in conjunction with the preparation, review, and filing of this report. There is a risk that moving to a virtual environment in response to COVID-19 could result in certain controls (e.g., financial closing and reporting controls) being overridden or performed less frequently, or that management could be designing and implementing new controls in response to new risks. In addition, in instances where relevant controls fail, and there are no compensating controls in place, there may be fewer opportunities to timely identify or remediate control deficiencies. There were otherwise no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021, that materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the Company. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Our system of internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the Company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Management performed an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of January 2, 2021 based upon criteria in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued and updated in fiscal 2013 by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”). Based on this assessment, management determined that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of January 2, 2021, based on the criteria in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by COSO.
There have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the Company’s most recent fiscal quarter and that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 9B.
OTHER INFORMATION
On March 29, 2021, the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors approved a grant, under the Company's 2014 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan (as amended and restated, the “2014 Plan”), of a target amount of 90,000 performance stock units (“PSUs”) to Bradley S. Vizi, the Company's Executive Chairman and President. The number of PSUs that will ultimately be earned and vested shall be determined as follows: 50% based on the level of achievement of established levels of EBITDA and 50% based on the level of achievement with respect to certain individual performance goals established by the Compensation Committee, both during a performance period beginning on January 3, 2021 and ending on January 1, 2022. With respect to the both the EBITDA and individual performance goals, threshold, target and maximum levels of performance have been established, with the following number of PSUs to be earned with respect to each such level: threshold - 22,500; target - 45,000; maximum - 62,500. The grant is subject to accelerated vesting in the event of a Change in Control (as defined in the 2014 Plan) prior to the end of the performance period.
PART III

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
ITEM 10.
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The information required by Item 10 shall be included in the 2021 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
ITEM 11.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The information required by Item 11 shall be included in the 2021 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
ITEM 12.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
Except as set forth below, the information required by Item 12 shall be included in the 2021 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
The table below presents certain information concerning securities issuable in connection with equity compensation plans that have been approved by the Company’s shareholders and that have not been approved by the Company’s shareholders.
Plan category
Number of securities to be potentially issued upon realization of restricted stock awards
Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights
Number of securities remaining available for issuance under equity compensation plans, excluding securities reflected in column (a)
(a)
(b)
(c)
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders
709,805(1)
N/A
520,929
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders
____________________
____________________
____________________
Total
709,805(1)
N/A
520,929
(1) Includes time-based restricted stock units of 352,661 and time-based restricted stock awards of 357,144, none of which have an exercise price.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
ITEM 13.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR
INDEPENDENCE
The information required by Item 13 shall be included in the 2021 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
ITEM 14.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The information required by Item 14 shall be included in the 2021 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
ITEM 15.
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
(a)
1. and 2. Financial Statement Schedules -- See “Index to Financial Statements and Schedules” on.
3. See Item (b) below.
(b)
Exhibits
The following exhibits are filed as part of, or incorporated by reference into, this report (unless otherwise
indicated, the file number with respect to each filed document is 1-10245):
(3)(a)
Articles of Incorporation, as amended; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(a) to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 1994, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 4, 1995.
(3)(b)
Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation; incorporated by reference to Exhibit A to the Registrant’s Proxy Statement, dated February 6, 1996, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, 1996.
(3)(c)
Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation; incorporated by reference to Exhibit B to the Registrant’s Proxy Statement, dated February 6, 1996, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, 1996.
(3)(d)
Amended and Restated Bylaws; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 23, 2014 (the “January 2014 8-K”).
(3)(e)
Certificate of Designation of Series A-3 Junior Participating Preferred Stock of RCM Technologies, Inc.; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 22, 2020 (the “May 2020 8-K”).
(4)(a)
Description of Capital Stock. (Filed herewith)
(4)(b)
Rights Agreement, dated as of May 22, 2020, by and between RCM Technologies, Inc. and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, as rights agent; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the May 2020 8-K.
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(10)(a)
RCM Technologies, Inc. 2000 Employee Stock Incentive Plan, dated January 6, 2000; incorporated by reference to Exhibit A to the Registrant’s Proxy Statement, dated March 3, 2000, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2000.
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(10)(b)
The RCM Technologies, Inc. 2007 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan; incorporated by reference to Annex A to the Registrant’s Proxy Statement, dated April 20, 2007, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 2007.
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(10)(c)
Executive Severance Agreement between RCM Technologies, Inc. and Kevin Miller dated December 27, 2012; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 27, 2012, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 28, 2012.
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(10)(d)
Amendment No. 1 to Executive Severance Agreement between RCM Technologies, Inc. and Kevin Miller dated December 26, 2017; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(x) to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for this fiscal year ended December 28, 2019, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 8, 2018.
ITEM 15.
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES (CONTINUED)
(b)
Exhibits (Continued)
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(10)(e)
RCM Technologies, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan (as amended through December 17, 2020); incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2020.
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(10)(f)
Form of Stock Unit Agreement; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the December 2014 8-K.
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(10)(g)
RCM Technologies, Inc. Change in Control Plan for Selected Executive Management (filed as an exhibit to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 12, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
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(10)(h)
Amendment 2015-3 to the RCM Technologies, Inc. 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan; incorporated by reference to Exhibit A to the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement for the 2015 Annual Meeting filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30, 2015.
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(10)(i)
Amendment 2018-4 to the RCM Technologies, Inc. 2001 Employee Stock Purchase Plan; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2018.
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(10)(j)
Executive Severance Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2018, by and between the Company and Bradley S. Vizi; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2018.
(10)(k)
Third Amended & Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2018, by and among the Company and all of its subsidiaries, Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania state chartered bank, in its capacity as administrative agent and arranger, and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania, as lender; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10(d) to the Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for this fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2018, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2018.
(10)(l)
First Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2018, by and among the Company and all of its subsidiaries, and Citizens Bank, N.A., a national banking association (as successor by merger to Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania), in its capacities as lender and as administrative agent and arranger; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 22, 2019.
(10)(m)
Amendment No. 2 to Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2020, by and among the Company and all of its subsidiaries, and Citizens Bank, N.A., a national banking association (as successor by merger to Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania), in its capacities as lender and as administrative agent and arranger; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 2, 2020.
(10)(n)
Amendment No. 3 to Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement, dated as of September 29, 2020, by and among the Company and all of its subsidiaries, and Citizens Bank, N.A., a national banking association (as successor by merger to Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania), in its capacities as lender and as administrative agent and arranger; incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 1, 2020.
ITEM 15.
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES (CONTINUED)
(b)
Exhibits (Continued)
(21)
Subsidiaries of the Registrant. (Filed herewith)
(23.1)
Consent of Macias, Gini & O’Connell, LLP. (Filed herewith)
(31.1)
Certifications of Chief Executive Officer Required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. (Filed herewith)
(31.2)
Certifications of Chief Financial Officer Required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. (Filed herewith)
(32.1)
Certifications of Chief Executive Officer Required by Rule 13a-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. (This exhibit shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Further, this exhibit shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.) (Furnished herewith)
(32.2)
Certifications of Chief Financial Officer Required by Rule 13a-14(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. (This exhibit shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Further, this exhibit shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.) (Furnished herewith)
101.INS
XBRL Instance Document (Filed herewith)
101.SCH
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document (Filed herewith)
101.CAL
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document (Filed herewith)
101.LAB
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document (Filed herewith)
101.PRE
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Documents (Filed herewith)
101.DEF
XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document (Filed herewith)
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Constitutes a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
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The Registrant will furnish supplementally a copy of any omitted schedule to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.