Risk factors

Kelly Services (KELYA) risk factors

Item 1A of every Kelly Services Inc. 10-K on file, and what changed from one year to the next. Readings are automated and can be wrong; check the filing for the exact wording.

  • FY2025 10-K risk factors
    33 risks2 new1 dropped11 reworded

    Kelly Services faces new operational risks from adopting internal AI recruiting tools and managing AI-generated candidate fraud.

    Filed Feb 12, 2026
  • FY2024 10-K risk factors
    32 risks

    Kelly Services faces dominant risks from macroeconomic staffing demand cycles, severe competition in a low-barrier industry, and disruptive technological advances in artificial intelligence. Operations are heavily exposed to regulatory, tax, and self-insured worker claim liabilities, alongside reliance on key customers and third-party technology vendors. Corporate governance is heavily centralized via a controlling stockholder trust and dual-class non-voting stock structures.

    Filed Feb 13, 2025