Corporate Sustainability and ESG at Kelly

Corporate
Sustainability
and ESG at Kelly

Message from our ESG Advisory Committee

Corporate Sustainability and ESG Strategy

Stakeholder engagement and materiality

Stakeholder engagement
Materiality assessment

Message from our ESG Advisory Committee

Kelly is deeply committed to ongoing leadership within the ESG space. In 2022, we formed a cross-functional group dedicated to advancing our company’s ESG performance and integrating ESG considerations into all of our decision making.Our new ESG Advisory Committee includes four C-suite executives, other strategic company leaders from across Kelly, and our Sustainability and ESG Lead. The team recognizes the staffing industry’s important role in the economy – and that our responsibility goes beyond providing specialty staffing solutions to also addressing society’s broader social, economic, and environmental challenges. Our commitment is to create long-term shared value, and we have identified strategic priorities to guide our efforts in the coming years.Kelly ESG Advisory Committee Strategic Priorities:

Improving our global environmental performance.

Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within our workforce, workplace, and marketplace.

Ensuring that our procurement practices uphold the highest ethical standards.

Our committee provides an additional layer of ESG governance and accountability at Kelly, in addition to existing accountability mechanisms like the annual publication of this report – Growing with Purpose. We hope you enjoy exploring this report for a comprehensive look at our ESG progress in 2022.Thank you for joining us as we grow with purpose together, making the world better for future generations.

The ESG Advisory Committee

Belen Benitez, Corporate Sustainability and ESG Lead
Amy Bouque, Chief People Officer
Alex Foster, VIce President, People Strategy & Experience
Nicholas Kowalczyk, Vice President, Chief Risk, Compliance & Privacy Officer
Laura Lockhart, Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
Blakely Meyers, Vice President, Internal Audit
Jim Polehna, Corporate Secretary and Chief Investor Relations Officer
Keilon Ratliff, Chief Diversity Officer
Olivier Thirot, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Vanessa Williams, Senior Vice President, General Counsel

Corporate Sustainability and ESG Strategy

We create shared value by delivering our promise of connecting people to work that enriches their lives while positively impacting our planet, with our customers, and in the communities where we live and work. Our Corporate Sustainability and ESG Strategy is integrated into Kelly’s growth strategy. It focuses on six core pillars responding to stakeholder expectations, critical risks, and opportunities across environmental, social, and governance issues. These core pillars are aligned to nine of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and support all programs and initiatives within our Corporate Sustainability and ESG strategy to ensure the internal resources and activities positively impact our triple bottom line. While our ESG strategies and programs impact our customers, talent, employees, and communities, we aim to help our worldwide subsidiaries and collaborators in planning, managing, and implementing responsible and sustainable business practices that create value for all stakeholders.

Sustainable Development Goals

We support the 17 UN SDGs and focus our efforts on nine goals where we make the most impact.

Stakeholder engagement and materiality

Stakeholder engagement
We continually engage with diverse stakeholders through various ongoing initiatives and activities to better understand their concerns so we can deliver a more compelling value of our services. Kelly also actively participates with staffing-industry associations and external partners to exchange information on best practices, raise standards within the industry, identify trends and opportunities, and advocate for policy issues that may significantly impact our customers and business.

Membership associations

American Staffing Association
Business Leaders for Michigan
Detroit Regional Chamber
Everest Group
Human Capital Institute
OSHA Temporary Worker Initiative
Second Chance Business Coalition
Society of Human Resource Management Foundation
Staffing Industry Analysts
The Conference Board
The World Employment Confederation

Other associations

Best Buddies International
CDP
CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion
EcoVadis
General Data Protection Regulation
Global Reporting Initiative
United Nations Global Compact

Materiality assessment

Our Corporate Sustainabiity and ESG Strategy is anchored in a formal materiality assessment that analyzes environmental, social, and governance issues concerning stakeholder relevance, the severity of risk, and the impact on our business success. Materiality is updated every three years. Our latest materiality assessment was conducted in 2021 through surveys, with participation from a group of diverse stakeholders representing suppliers, customers, Kelly employees, talent, and other stakeholders. Kelly’s most recent materiality assessment considered a double materiality analysis to assess the level of risk that each ESG issue could have on the business from a financial and non-financial perspective, including our license to operate and impact on the overall value of our organization.

Our approach to materiality:

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In 2021 Kelly conducted a double materiality assessment, evaluating topics based on the environmental and social impact that also represent an economic impact for the business, and captured them in our materiality matrix.
All ESG issues prioritized within Kelly’s materiality matrix serve as a guiding list to deliver our Corporate Sustainability and ESG strategy and reporting to all stakeholders as described in our stakeholder perception analysis.