Derek Dewan
Chairman & CEO

Hello, and welcome to the GEE Group Fiscal 2026 Second Quarter and Year-to-Date Period Ended March 31, 2026, Earnings and Update Webcast Conference Call. I'm Derek Dewan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GEE Group, I will be hosting today's call. Joining me as a co-presenter is Kim Thorpe, our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Thank you for joining us today.

It is our pleasure to share with you GEE Group's results for the fiscal 2026 second quarter and year-to-date period ended March 31, 2026, and provide you with our outlook for the rest of the fiscal 2026 year and the foreseeable future. Some comments Kim and I will make today will be considered forward-looking, including predictions, estimates, expectations and other statements about future performance. These represent our current judgments of what the future holds and are subject to risks and uncertainties that actual results may differ materially from our forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties are described below under the caption Forward-looking Statements Safe Harbor and in Thursday's earnings press release and our most recent Form 10-Q, 10-K and other SEC filings under the captions Cautionary Statement regarding forward-looking statements and forward-looking statements safe harbor. We assume no obligation to update statements made on today's call.

Throughout this presentation, we will refer to periods being presented as this quarter or the quarter or this year-to-date or the year-to-date, which refers to the 3- or 6-month periods ended March 31, 2026, respectively. Likewise, when we refer to the prior year quarter or the prior year-to-date, we're referring to the comparable prior 3- and 6-month periods ended March 31, 2025, respectively. When we refer to the