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Prior to 1986, the Company was primarily a franchisor, under the names Accountemps and Robert Half , with offices providing contract and permanent professionals in the fields of accounting and finance.
−Removed: Beginning in 1986, the Company and its current management embarked on a strategy of acquiring the franchised locations.
+Added: Beginning in 1986, the Company embarked on a strategy of acquiring the franchised locations.
All franchises have since been acquired.
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The client typically pays a one-time fee for such conversions.
−Removed: Finance and Accounting offers customers a reliable and economical means of dealing with uneven or peak workloads for accounting, finance, and accounting operations personnel caused by such predictable events as vacations, taking inventories, tax work, month-end activities, special projects, and such unpredictable events as illness, staff turnover and emergencies.
+Added: Finance and Accounting offers customers a reliable and economical means of dealing with uneven or peak workloads for accounting, finance, and accounting operations personnel caused by such predictable events as vacations, taking inventories, tax work, month-end activities and special projects, and such unpredictable events as illness, staff turnover and emergencies.
Finance and Accounting also provides senior-level engagement professionals in the accounting, finance and business systems fields, including chief financial officers, controllers, senior financial analysts, internal auditors and business systems analysts, for such tasks as financial systems conversions, business process re-engineering, business systems performance improvement and post-merger financial consolidation.
Technology provides information technology contract professionals and offers managed services in areas ranging from multiple platform systems integration to end-user technical and desktop support, including specialists in software and application development, networking and cloud, systems integration and deployment, database design and administration, and security and business continuity.
−Removed: Marketing and Creative includes the provision of creative professionals in the areas of creative, digital, marketing, advertising, and public relations in a variety of positions, such as creative directors, graphic designers, web designers, media buyers, front-end developers, copywriters, digital marketing managers, marketing analytics specialists, brand managers, user experience practitioners, and public relations specialists.
+Added: Marketing and Creative includes the provision of creative professionals in the areas of creative, digital, marketing, advertising, and public relations in a variety of positions, such as creative directors, graphic designers, web designers, media
+Added: buyers, front-end developers, copywriters, digital marketing managers, marketing analytics specialists, brand managers, user experience practitioners and public relations specialists.
Legal provides legal contract talent, including attorneys and paralegal professionals.
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Permanent placement talent solutions operates under the Robert Half company name.
−Removed: Protiviti is a global consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in finance, technology, operations, data, digital, legal, HR, governance, risk and internal audit, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
+Added: Protiviti is a global consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in regulatory compliance, finance, technology, operations, data, digital, legal, HR, governance, risk and internal audit, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
In 2002, the Company hired more than 700 professionals who had been affiliated with the internal audit and business and technology risk consulting practice of Arthur Andersen LLP, including more than 50 individuals who had been partners of that firm.
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The Company utilizes a proprietary artificial intelligence (“AI”) engine to match candidates to jobs in order to assist talent solutions professionals with quickly providing skilled and experienced contract talent to clients, as well as through email marketing recommendation campaigns that proactively promote highly placeable talent to clients.
−Removed: The Company also uses AI to assist with improving lead generation amongst past clients and determining which candidates are most likely to work on an assignment in the near term.
+Added: The Company also uses AI to assist with improving lead generation amongst prospective and past clients and determining which candidates are most likely to work on an assignment in the near term.
The Company is also evaluating how generative artificial intelligence tools could enhance the business.
−Removed: Protiviti is expanding service offerings to include AI-enabled solutions, and is navigating clients through this complex and rapidly evolving technology with a particular focus on responsible AI.
−Removed: Many engagements begin with identifying opportunities for and applications of AI to accelerate positive business outcomes.
−Removed: In addition to developing technology solutions, these engagements evolve into helping clients identify potential risks, defining their specific policies for AI, developing and enacting governance mechanisms to apply those policies, and incorporating these principles into technology selection and architecture.
+Added: Protiviti continues to invest in and deploy AI-enabled solutions, seamlessly integrating artificial intelligence into its existing offerings while enhancing its own AI infrastructure.
+Added: The firm assists clients in identifying and implementing suitable strategies, platforms and tools customized to their unique objectives, developing and implementing AI strategies and use cases, establishing transparent and secure AI environments, and balancing innovation with risk management effectively.
+Added: Protiviti’s expertise spans a wide range of applications across its AI service offerings, from agent-oriented cases, platform adoption and implementation, audit efficiency and optimizing inventory management to accelerating legal contract reviews and enhancing compliance effectiveness and efficiency.
+Added: Its proprietary enterprise AI platform, Protiviti Atlas, is a testament to its innovation in the field.
+Added: Currently patent pending in the United States, Protiviti Atlas offers a suite of generative AI functionalities, empowering Protiviti to deliver tailored solutions that enhance client value by analyzing complex data, providing real-time translations, creating and examining diagrams and images, and processing video content.
Marketing and Recruiting
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Direct marketing to customers is a significant portion of the Company’s total marketing efforts.
−Removed: also actively seeks endorsements and affiliations with professional organizations in the accounting and finance, technology, legal, and creative and marketing fields.
+Added: The Company also actively seeks endorsements and affiliations with professional organizations in the accounting and finance, technology, legal, and creative and marketing fields.
The Company also conducts public relations activities designed to enhance public recognition of the Company and its services.
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Employees are encouraged to be active in relevant social media communities, charitable, and civic organizations and industry trade groups.
−Removed: The Company and its subsidiaries own many trademarks and service marks, including the Robert Half ® Finance & Accounting, Accountemps ® , OfficeTeam ® , Robert Half ® Technology, Robert Half ® Management Resources, Robert Half ® Legal, The Creative Group ® and Protiviti ® marks, which are registered in the United States and in a number of foreign countries.
+Added: The Company and its subsidiaries own many trademarks and service marks, including the Robert Half ® Finance & Accounting, Accountemps ® , OfficeTeam ® , Robert Half ® Technology, Robert Half ® Management Resources, Robert Half ® Legal, The Creative Group ® and Protiviti ® marks, which are registered in the United States (“U.S.”) and in a number of foreign countries.
Management of the Company’s contract talent solutions and permanent placement talent solutions operations is coordinated from its headquarters facilities in Menlo Park and San Ramon, California.
−Removed: The Company’s headquarters provides support and centralized services to its offices in the administrative, marketing, public relations, accounting, information technology, training and legal areas, particularly as it relates to the standardization of the operating procedures of its offices.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, the Company conducted its contract talent and permanent placement services operations through 313 offices in 42 states, the District of Columbia, and 18 foreign countries.
−Removed: Office managers are responsible for most activities of their offices, including business development, local advertising and marketing, and recruitment.
+Added: The Company’s headquarters provides support and centralized services to its offices in the administrative, marketing, public relations, accounting, information technology, training and legal areas, particularly as they relate to the standardization of the operating procedures of its offices.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, the Company conducted its contract talent and permanent placement services operations through offices in the U.S.
+Added: and 17 foreign countries.
The day-to-day operations of Protiviti are managed by a chief executive officer and a senior management team.
Operational and administrative support is provided by individuals located in Menlo Park and San Ramon, California.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, Protiviti had 65 offices in 23 states and 13 foreign countries.
−Removed: The Company’s contract talent solutions and permanent placement talent solutions businesses face competition in attracting clients as well as skilled specialized employment candidates.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, Protiviti conducted operations in the U.S.
+Added: and 13 foreign countries.
+Added: The Company’s contract talent solutions and permanent placement talent solutions businesses face competition in attracting clients as well as skilled and specialized employment candidates.
The staffing business is highly competitive, with a number of firms offering services similar to those provided by Robert Half on a national, regional or local basis.
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It brings together the Company’s numerous strengths, including its global brand, global office network, global candidate database, and advanced artificial intelligence driven technologies and data analytics at the scale needed to excel at out-of-market recruitment and placements.
−Removed: This strengthens the Company’s competitive position significantly since its traditionally toughest competitors, local and regional staffing firms, generally do not have these capabilities.
+Added: This strengthens the Company’s competitive position significantly because its traditionally toughest competitors, local and regional staffing firms, generally do not have these capabilities.
Protiviti faces competition in its efforts to attract clients, expand relationships with existing clients and win new business proposals.
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The principal competitors of Protiviti remain the “Big Four” accounting firms and other consultancies.
−Removed: Significant competitive factors include reputation, technology, tools, project methodologies, price of services, and depth of skills and breadth of availability of personnel.
−Removed: Protiviti believes its competitive strengths lie in the collaborative approach it takes to working with clients, which drives knowledge transfer, understanding of client issues, and value creation.
−Removed: This may be coupled with a “configure-to-fit” resourcing model to create blended teams of full-time Protiviti consulting professionals and engagement professionals from Robert Half’s network of specialized talent to precisely match expertise, approach and people to the changing global needs of clients on consulting and managed solutions projects.
+Added: Significant competitive factors include reputation, technology, tools, project methodologies, price of services, and the depth of skills and breadth of available personnel.
+Added: Protiviti believes its competitive strengths lie in the collaborative approach it takes to
+Added: working with clients, which drives knowledge transfer, understanding of client issues and value creation.
+Added: This may be coupled with a “configure-to-fit” resourcing model to create blended teams of full-time Protiviti consulting professionals and engagement professionals from Robert Half’s network of specialized talent to precisely match expertise, approach and people with the changing global needs of clients on consulting and managed solutions projects.
Human Capital Management
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The Company also provides access to voluntary health insurance coverage to interested engagement professionals.
−Removed: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion .
−Removed: The Company’s corporate culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (“DEI”) enables it to leverage the representation and strengths of its workforce.
−Removed: In doing so, an environment is created where the enterprise’s values anchor the work and cultivate a culture of growth and connection;
−Removed: attract, retain, and advance talented people;
−Removed: and positively impact clients and the communities where they live and serve.
−Removed: In 2023, the Company continued its support of the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, published its DEI e-book “A Shared Journey to Inclusivity,” and furthered its commitment by continuing to invest in key programs such as strategic alliance engagement, employee network group (“ENG”) maturation, and learning and development opportunities.
−Removed: The Company places a high value on inclusion, engaging employees in its ENG programs which provide a community for individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and identities, and their allies.
−Removed: These employee-led groups convene around common interests by sharing heritage and cultural traditions, investing in professional development and mentoring, improving corporate culture, and delivering sustained business results.
−Removed: These groups support the attraction of historically underrepresented talent internally and externally.
−Removed: Each ENG is sponsored and supported by executive leaders across the enterprise.
−Removed: Across Robert Half and Protiviti, there are 17 ENGs spanning gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability and mental health and well-being.
+Added: Enterprise Values .
+Added: Robert Half’s enterprise values serve as the cornerstone for how the Company strives to conduct business.
+Added: These values are integral to the Company and serve to improve retention, advance inclusion, and encourage responsible, sustainable business practices.
+Added: Put ethics first and do the right thing in all situations
+Added: Foster a culture of belonging where everyone can connect, thrive and grow
+Added: ▪ Innovation:
+Added: Adapt, evolve and invest to deliver new ideas and solutions
+Added: ▪ Commitment to success:
+Added: Empower our people to drive the success of our clients, colleagues, and candidates and to better our communities
Across Robert Half and Protiviti, as of December 31, 2024, approximately 53.3% of the Company’s global workforce identified as female and 47.4% of the Company’s employees in managerial and leadership roles identified as female.
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In 2024, Robert Half and Protiviti conducted new hire surveys at specific points in a new hire’s onboarding and departure surveys to exiting employees.
−Removed: By paying close attention to the results at an aggregate enterprise level and at a department/business/workgroup level, across an employee’s life cycle, the Company has been able to enhance its culture of rewards and recognition, drive efforts to promote inclusion and diversity, increase communication in support of employee well-being and modernize its approach to foster a culture of continuous learning and feedback.
+Added: By paying close attention to the results at an aggregate enterprise level and at a department/business/workgroup level, across an employee’s life cycle, the Company has been able to enhance its culture of rewards and recognition, drive efforts to promote inclusion, increase communication in support of employee well-being, and modernize its approach to foster a culture of continuous learning and feedback.
In addition, Robert Half continued its participation in the Great Place to Work ® Survey to benchmark with other companies around the world.
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The Company emphasizes employee development and training for our people and the organization.
−Removed: Training and development are key elements to the overall retention, engagement, and employee experience strategy.
+Added: Learning and development are key elements to the overall retention, engagement and employee experience strategy.
Our strategy is designed to empower employees to reach their full potential, and the Company provides a wide range of development programs, opportunities and resources needed to be successful.
−Removed: The Company has specialized programs for all audiences, including new hires, tenured employees, and leadership.
+Added: The Company has specialized programs for all audiences, including new hires, tenured employees and employees in leadership roles.
The Company provides mentorship opportunities, self-paced and instructor-led learning channels, and a catalog of vendor-provided courses, videos, resources, and books.
−Removed: The Company is committed to its employees’ overall health and providing career progression by providing individual development, readiness, and transition plans as a part of its talent review and succession planning process.
+Added: The Company is committed to its employees’ career progression by providing individual development, readiness and transition plans as a part of its talent review and succession planning process.
Given our flexible work philosophy, our learning strategy supports access and equity to all employees, including in-person and virtual learning experiences.
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Our learning strategy supports equity of access, just in-time learning and continued career development for our employees.
−Removed: In Protiviti, at key career milestones, employees may participate in engaging learning events that prepare them to succeed at higher levels.
+Added: In Protiviti, at key career milestones, employees participate in learning events that prepare them to succeed at higher levels.
Each employee is assigned a career adviser who coaches them and recommends actions to help increase their impact, contribution and engagement.
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The Company offers a wide array of benefits including comprehensive health and welfare programs, generous time off and leave, and retirement and financial support.
−Removed: The Company provides emotional well-being services through its Employee Assistance Program as well as other perks and convenience benefits.
+Added: The Company provides emotional well-being services through its Employee Assistance Program and Parent Resources portal as well as other perks and convenience benefits.
In 2024, the Company devoted itself to focusing on our employees, including their careers, well-being, connections and impact they have on the Company and community.
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The Company’s Internet address is www.roberthalf.com .
−Removed: The Company makes available, free of charge, through its website, its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, proxy statements for its annual meetings of stockholders, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
+Added: The Company makes available, free of charge, through its website, its Annual Reports on Form 10-K and proxy statements for its annual meetings of stockholders, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and its current reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
Also available on the Company’s website are its Corporate Governance Guidelines, its Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, and the charters for its Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Governance Committee, each of which is available in print to any stockholder who makes a request to Robert Half Inc., 2884 Sand Hill Road, Suite 200, Menlo Park, CA 94025, Attn:
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The Company intends to satisfy any disclosure obligations under Item 5.05 of Form 8-K regarding any amendment or waiver relating to its Code of Business Conduct and Ethics by posting such information on its website.
−Removed: The Company has used, and intends to continue to use, its website as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
+Added: The Company has used, and intends to continue to use, its website as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD (or Fair Disclosure).
The Company’s website and the information contained therein or connected to or linked from the website are not incorporated information and do not constitute part of this Annual Report.
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