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Before  getting into the work that has been completed this year and the work ahead to be done, there are a few things that I would like to reiterate from my EOY Update.

I am excited about the road ahead and believe that we will be able to make faster and more substantive progress through the course of 2025. The tooling [Market Planner, Care Pro Scoring, etc… ] creates some of the core foundational elements of what will really allow us to continue to scale and improve.

 Also outlined in that update was our focus for 2025:

Revamping Hiring for Scalable Growth: We're refining hiring to better match Care Pro supply with client demand, focusing on the most-needed areas. New tools will prioritize the most critical candidates, speeding up hiring and mobilizing top tier candidates to get into ongoing schedules. Updated KPIs will track hiring goals, activation speed, and utilization to ensure we efficiently scale workforce capacity.

Reliability & Workforce Stability: Reducing cancellations and staffing disruptions is a top priority. By optimizing hiring pipelines and enhancing Care Pro retention strategies, we’ll make service even more reliable.

We have not provided a structured update on either of these. Attached/below is a detailed memo on the work underway and I hope each of you will spend time with it so that you have a deeper understanding of how we are driving the Care Platform forward.  It’s important to understand that there is a group of people who come to work every day–both operators and technologists–who focus on continuing to make the systems better and better.  We are building the infrastructure to make hiring, staffing, and retaining top Care Pros more scalable, predictable, and effective. Here’s where we stand mid-2025 and what you’ll find details on in the memo:

1. Staffing & Client Experience

• Market Planner has gone through three major iterations, improving Care Pro consistency, maximizing hours for top performers, and reducing cancellations.

• We launched “Hypercare” to intervene early with at-risk clients, cutting churn risk by ~980 bps. We can now predict client risk with 93% accuracy, moving from reacting to forecasting.
  

2. Understanding Demand (SKUs)

• We’re defining client needs as “SKUs” (care type + time + skills + location).

• This lets us measure coverage ratios, forecast demand, and target hiring precisely instead of relying on anecdotes.
  

3. Hiring & Onboarding Improvements

• Our strategy is centered on recruiting and retaining “H/H Care Pros” who deliver the best client outcomes.

• New models (Likelihood-to-Work + AI interview screen) help filter 5,000+ applicants weekly and identify those most likely to become H/H.

• Hiring cohorts are now seeing a more than 20% increase in the number of Care Pros offered work.

• Orientation is being overhauled (pilot in Chicago Sept 2025) to set higher bars and improve mobilization.

• New pilot in Phoenix focuses on helping all new hires get quickly established into ongoing work.
  

4. Retaining H/H Care Pros

• Top churn risks: <2 ongoing clients and <85% utilization.

• Market Planner now optimizes for better utilization across H/H CPs (41–60% improvement so far).

• Auto-assignment pilots (“Perfect Offers”) boosted utilization to 91% in test markets.

• New “delayed incentive” pilots (Detroit, Chicago) reward CPs for higher consistent hours—aiming to boost retention and supply.

Bottom Line
We are shifting from anecdotal, reactive staffing to a system that is measurable, predictable, and scalable. By focusing on SKUs, H/H Care Pros, and retention levers, we are building the durable foundation for growth: consistent client experiences and better Care Pro jobs.

Before getting into the work that has been completed this year and the work ahead to be done, there are a few things that I would like to reiterate from my EOY Update.

I am excited about the road ahead and believe that we will be able to make faster and more substantive progress through the course of 2025. The tooling [Market Planner, Care Pro Scoring, etc… ] creates some of the core foundational elements of what will really allow us to continue to scale and improve.

 Also outlined in that update was our focus for 2025:

Revamping Hiring for Scalable Growth: We're refining hiring to better match Care Pro supply with client demand, focusing on the most-needed areas. New tools will prioritize the most critical candidates, speeding up hiring and mobilizing top tier candidates to get into ongoing schedules. Updated KPIs will track hiring goals, activation speed, and utilization to ensure we efficiently scale workforce capacity.

Reliability & Workforce Stability: Reducing cancellations and staffing disruptions is a top priority. By optimizing hiring pipelines and enhancing Care Pro retention strategies, we’ll make service even more reliable.

My guess is that most of you are interested in hearing about what we are doing with regards to hiring and improving the work force, but first I am going to outline some of the incremental progress that we have made on staffing, as that it is illustrative of how we work and why we are doing what we are doing. It’s also important to know that there is a group of people who come to work every day–both operators and technologists–who focus on continuing to make the systems better and better. 

On the fulfillment side, there are two major areas of functionality that need to work together to create a system that allows us to continue to provide better and better care over time. These two broad areas are “staffing” and “workforce management".

Last year, after we established the key defects that mattered most to care quality and retaining clients (what we refer to as the fulfillment quality framework) – we decided to begin with staffing and created Market Planner. We focused on staffing because the theory was that if we “fixed” hiring prior to having a staffing engine, you wouldn't be able to take advantage of it and the majority of the defects (e.g., CP Consistency) were not necessarily because of a hiring problem. What is exciting about this is that we have now released three major iterations and continue to see improvements in consistency of Care Pros, maximizing hours for our highest quality Care Pros, and reducing avoidable cancellations.

In addition to the core improvements that everyone benefits from, we have been running an experiment that we are calling “hypercare.” Like most things, this idea will not be a conceptual breakthrough to anyone reading this memo, but what is exciting to me is how we are doing this. The basic idea is that can we identify clients early in their journey who are having problems and create a set of interventions to improve their outcomes.

Bear with me while I take the time to explain this.

We have what we call the “composite score” (which is calculated every day for every client), and we have picked a threshold where we pull clients out of the normal process and give them to a speciality team whose job is to fix the problem (as measured by the composite score, which is 100% causally (but probabilistically) related to [client] churn). Because we measure composite score every day you can actually see the impact that the remediations have at the client level, and you can see that in almost every case we have been able to make a significant improvement and decrease the average score by ~33%, which on average corresponds to a 980 basis point reduction in churn risk.

As exciting as this is it (and I think it is pretty exciting) it is also dealing with the problem after it is has happened (as we cannot calculate the score until after the problems occur, which is how it is designed), so the team is doing work to "forecast" the composite score, and they have been able to get the first version of this to have an R² of 0.93, reflecting an extremely high degree of accuracy in predicting observed outcomes. Now, we can tell on Day 1 what we expect the client's experience to be for the next 30 days. We are following the same process with the Hypercare team, with the aim of preventing these issues from occurring.

What is really cool about this work isn't that we are doing this in the generic sense (understanding which clients are having bad experiences and working to fix them–like, duh). But, we are using data to drive the system and then building a system to take action on this. Without the fulfillment quality framework we wouldn't have a structured way to talk about the client’s experience (you would otherwise have to wait until they churned). Without this score, you would not be able to see if the interventions mattered, because you couldn't see the change in the input metrics that matter to the client–you would be looking at churn and only see noise. Without this score, we wouldn't have been able to identify the clients that were at risk (structurally) and treat them differently. Without this score, you wouldn't be able to build a "forecast of the score" and move from observing the problem (creating observability) to forecasting the problem.

In my mind this is a tiny, but extremely powerful, example of the type of work that needs to get done and how these things start to build on top of each other. Because this predicted score will be put into code, it will never forget to look at clients who are in a "bad state." As we improve our understanding of what a "bad state" is, we can simply add it to the algorithm and other clients will get identified. Since we can "pick up the work" programmatically, we can put it into a work queue (a.k.a., Directed Work) and have complete traceability and accountability to the work being done. And, since we will know the pre- and post- conditions for each client, we can see if the work "mattered."

I know that the work described above has nothing to do with hiring and creating a stable of amazing Care Pros, with whom we can continue to build great businesses. But I think it is important for you all to understand that it is the foundational work of identifying the things that matter, which allows us – over the arc of time – to build systems that no one else can. As you have heard me say numerous times, I think that the companies that win in their industry do it “on the back of fulfillment”. The game we are playing isn’t to be a marginally better home care provider. The prize we are going after is to be the “de facto solution” for anyone needing care. But to do this we have to solve problems differently than we have previously.

Now, getting to the part that you care about most

Not surprisingly, we are taking a similar approach to workforce management. As you all have said, and we agree: the quality of the Care Pro(s), is what really matters to our clients. To that end, we have created a Care Pro score – what we call a High/High Care Pro (H/H Care Pro). Since we have this score we can now focus our hiring and retention efforts on the Care Pros that matter most.

I know that these comments about scale don’t help you individually, but I think it is important for you to understand that we are trying to turn scale into a benefit, not a hindrance.  For context, during any given week, we have 3.3K Care Pros with a visit, ~280 that stop working, we get over 5K applicants a week, and 185 that Care Pros return to work after a pause.

We continue to focus on our H/H Care Pros.  We have 2.3K working during any given week, of whom  ~180 have stopped working, and 125 return after a pause.  (And yes we have all of this data at the regional level). Clearly, the name of the game is to increase the population of H/H Care Pros. 

The other problem we need to solve is what Care Pros do we need. What days of the week do we need to staff? What skills do we need? Does the Care Pro need to be able to drive? Where do we need them to be able to go?

It is at the intersection of this understanding of demand and managing supply that we need to excel. And to that end, what follows is a brief summary of the work that is currently underway. I find it easiest to think about this work in three discrete buckets: 

1. Understanding Demand: What specific combination of skills, availability, and location are needed,  and how much demand exists for each?

2. Hiring and Onboarding: How do we hire these combinations of need, and how is this hiring all filtered through the lens of H/H Care Pro Capacity? 

3. Care Pro Retention: How do we retain the H/H Care Pros we have today? 

Let me start by saying that we have an almost entirely new leadership team working on these problems.  And to some extent, getting this team assembled slowed down progress in the front half of the year, but I am confident that with Noah Levin (VP of Hiring) and with substantial assistance from Dan Lee ( EVP of Data) on the hiring side; Becca Burrows (SVP Care Operations), Jess Hovik (VP Revenue Enablement) we will make significant progress.

To understand what we need with much more precision, we are creating a single, precise “stock-keeping unit (SKU)”. Each SKU will capture the key attributes that define client needs—things like cognitive care level, lift and transfer requirements, transportation needs, shift pattern, and preferred time block. These five dimensions alone generate over 250 unique combinations of care needs, even before considering geography. Once we factor in the exact client location and the commute feasibility of each CP applicant, the number of distinct combinations increases to over 75,000.

Once this taxonomy of SKUs is created, we will then calculate a coverage ratio for each SKU. The ratio is simple: qualified, unassigned Care Pros available in a week divided by a minimal number of target matches per shift. Any SKU with a ratio below 1 raises a deficit alert: for example, if Tuesday “overnight | memory care” shows only three matched Care Pros and the minimum target matches were 8, the coverage ratio would be 0.38, telling us we need five more. That ratio feeds a rolling forecast that projects how many hours of each SKU will be needed one, four, and six weeks out. In the future, we will be able to take our historical demand (past client needs), characterize them by SKU, and then build out a measurable demand curve. By comparing that to our “inventory” of CPs available for eachSKU, we will be able to understand which SKUs are ready for immediate growth and which need targeted recruiting before additional sales.

The creation of the SKU allows us to speak a common language and unlocks three hiring growth levers. 

1. Care Pro utilization will rise because the system stops over-hiring idle generalists (~30% of hires never complete a visit) and under-hiring the skilled caregivers who drive client hours. 

2. We can point to a “sub-1.0” SKU gap by market in the forecast rather than rely on anecdotes to target marketing campaigns and bonuses. 

3. Hiring cycle time shrinks because the hiring team will know exactly which profile to pursue and onboarding can be tailored to the precise skill set.

Hiring: Today the strongest indicators of H/H status emerge only after a Care Pro has worked several shifts. Each week we receive more than 5,000 applications. Historically less than 5% of those applicants ever work a first visit, and less than 1% become established H/H Care Pros where “established” means the Care Pro has worked more than 17 visits.

In order to weed through the sea of applicants to identify and hire the great Care Pros who are in this pool we are attacking this in three steps:

1. Likelihood-to-Work model (LTW), this is a v1 model, which scores every applicant early on objective signals from their application; for example, willingness to commute, schedule flexibility, caregiving experience and skills, and  signals such as time to complete key application steps. This model identifies 40% of applicant profiles that are ranked as having less than a 7% probability of converting into paid hours of care based on these objective criteria. This model is in production today.

2. We then apply a preliminary version of SKU-based forecasting: while not yet using the full proposed SKU taxonomy described above, it follows the same principle. An applicant who clears the bar is surfaced only if the staffing region shows low coverage for that applicant’s criteria. This current approach also allows us to flag potential “false negatives,” meaning for those SKUs that are in very high demand we can send the applicants to an additional queue for human review to decide whether they do in fact possess the in-demand criteria to allow them to proceed. Applicants who don’t meet either of these bars are held in a “standby” queue for future consideration. This basic version is giving us directional control, but the upcoming SKU-level taxonomy will enable far greater precision in identifying gaps (both skills and more precise location).

3. After applicants pass the LTW score and align with the demand defined by high-need SKUs, they move to our Applicant Insight Screen. This model evaluates recorded answers to short scenario-based questions. The model has been demonstrated to have high fidelity when compared to historical hiring decisions. . What is more important is that it creates structured, question-level data that in the future we can link to our H/H designation and to 90-day retention outcomes. As we discover which questions and responses are most useful in clearly distinguishing future H/H Care Pros, we’ll keep refining this screen to surface that signal even earlier in the funnel. 

The above steps allow the hiring team to focus on the applicants with a high probability to show up for a visit, and are matched to open shifts. While the data for recent weekly hired cohorts is still maturing, we are encouraged to see the percent of hired Care Pros offered work increased by over 20 percent  for the cohorts hired the first 3 weeks of June.

There are parallel work streams focused on reducing the time applicants spend in the hiring process by evaluating which steps can be combined to eliminate the numerous back-and-forth steps in the current process. For example, steps that may require more guidance due to the complex nature of regulatory requirements , as well as steps that might be altogether removed. 

Onboarding: Historically, around 30% of our newly hired Care Pros never work.  Clearly this is a big opportunity to dimensionalize, in July we hired 388 new Care Pros. As of today 28% (110) of them have never worked and only 56% (218) of them are working ongoing shifts.  This means that of the 37,248 potential hours of work these Care Pros could have provided per month (based on average hours worked per Care Pro) we are only capturing 20,928 hours of supply.

Each of these Care Pros may be inactive for a mix of reasons, some of which are immutable. But others are within our control: we can ask for short-term schedule flexibility, subsidize commutes, or upskill to meet client needs. Our hypothesis is that in the earliest days of a Care Pro’s journey, targeted attention and personalization can shift the balance toward action.

Orientation Overhaul

In looking at how we ensure the quality of our newest Care Pros and improve mobilization–get more of the Care Pros we hire to work–we are overhauling our orientation. We know that our orientation requires effort. You have given us this feedback and we have seen this in the quality of Care Pros who pass orientation and then either don’t work or do not reach H/H standards. Today, only 34% of our Care Pros graduate to the point where we have clear performance signal and only 15% of total Care Pros graduate to H/H status.

We aim for everyone who comes out of orientation to be a person we would send to our own parents’ homes.  Recently we have  overhauled our process for Lift and Transfer assessments to more specifically target individuals’ capabilities, and we have created a more robust criteria for passing this assessment. We are now working to reimagine our whole onboarding program with major changes being new graduation criteria that measures both soft and hard skills, greater focus on customer empathy skills, and setting expectations on staffing and performance.We have chosen Chicago as our test market for this new Orientation approach and will launch the pilot with new hires in September.  Please note that we are considering Care Pro orientation to be beyond the ‘session’ they attend to include the process by which we get them mobilized to work, established in the market, and successfully reaching H/H status. The key metrics we will track for success of this overhaul is “time to CP first shift,” and “percent of CPs to achieve H/H status at 30 and 90 days.”

Management of New Care Pros Through to Established
To increase mobilization and move quickly to 85% utilization of the Care Pros’ requested hours, we are standing up a pilot in Phoenix where we have staffed a dedicated senior manager to work with all new CPs to get them established with ongoing work. All communications will go through this individual who has full flexibility to problem solve and ensure the CP is staffed.  Examples of interventions include a welcome call scheduled immediately at the end of orientation; working with the hiring team prior to orientation to ideally match with a client ready for a fast start; upskilling if there is a SKU mismatch; ensuring they can earn while waiting for an ongoing client if required (paid training, shadow training shifts, etc.); and working with the CP on temporary flexes to get them staffed (such as time flexes or commute flexes). We launched this pilot in Phoenix on July 14.

Redefinition of our Performance Metrics to Improve Staffing Model
For new Care Pros, we have defined a new set of ‘tags’ to track performance trends so that we can prioritize new hires effectively in the staffing system and ensure they will receive appropriate job offers as we get stronger signal on their performance and reliability from our systemized staffing models. This approach will ensure we have a stronger ‘up or out’ model where underperforming Care Pros are deprioritized and managed out sooner and high performing Care Pros access more work earlier so they can ‘graduate’ to H/H and serve more clients.

Improving retention of H/H Care Pros will not only maximize the impact of our hiring efforts and increase supply of Care Pros, but retained Care Pros who are well utilized will also, over the arc of time, improve quality of care.

Since the start of 2024 through to today, the average monthly churn rate across the platform of H/H Care Pros has been 2.9%. To understand if there were opportunities within this churn rate, we have conducted a defect analysis (conceptually similar to the customer defect work) to determine what the underlying metrics are that drive H/H Care Pro Churn. We looked at 11 different defects (such as lost hours, ongoing clients churned, tickets opened for assistance) and found that the 2 most impactful defects leading to H/H Care Pro churn were being staffed on fewer than 2 ongoing clients and being utilized at less than 85% of Care Pro stated desired hours. These two defects, especially the ongoing client count, aligned with anecdotal feedback from owners and our team.

So what are we doing about it?
Now that we have determined the highest ranked defects that lead to H/H CP churn, we can use Market Planner to reduce those defects in a systematic manner, starting with under-utilization. Previously, our optimization model that drives matching and scheduling recommendations for Market Planner would prioritize staffing H/Hs, but it was agnostic to utilization. This meant we could over-utilize some H/Hs and under-utilize others. In early May, we released a new model that optimizes for the number of H/Hs utilized at 85%+ while ensuring we don’t get worse in other areas (such as client consistency) that are core to our service quality.

We drove an improvement across markets of H/H CPs utilized at 85% without degradation to our other key metrics such as client consistency or model recommendation rate. We did need to have slightly more flexing into non-preferred times on schedule, so we are watching to ensure there is no degradation to acceptance rates.

We will next train our model to also optimize for client count over 2, but we need to manage this with our client defect score for ‘excess CP’ and ensure no impact to client experience. More to come on this.

In order to continue to improve the retention of our H/H Care Pros we ran an experiment in Raleigh Durham and Northern Virginia where we auto assigned schedules that matched their preferences and skills.

We learned a great deal about CP availability accuracy, preferred outreach methods, and commute time accuracy (causing us to change our mapping techniques), and saw an increase in acceptance rate of job offers from 16% to 39%. In our pilot markets we saw an 11% increase in utilization of our H/H Care Pros. These markets are now at 91% utilization for our best Care Pros (compared to 86% for other markets). We have now built this auto-assignment approach into our staffing system and will roll out across Care Platform by the end of August.

Supply Shaping via Delayed Incentives

Historically, we apply bonuses and discretionary payments on a shift level for urgent staffing. Not only does this incentivize CP responses that may not be sustainable in the longer term, but it increases variability in the system (and lowers quality over time for clients). By using ‘delayed incentives’ we are able to build opt-in programs for our CPs to increase their earnings by taking actions that help us solve business challenges.  We are very excited about shifting our bonus structure this way over time to improve the CP value proposition (thereby driving retention and quality) and improving the resilience of our staffing.

As we are looking at utilization of Care Pros (average hours worked) we are testing monthly incentives to drive utilization. The first of these pilots went live in Detroit and Chicago on July 7. In this simple pilot we are offering all CPs who work fewer than 30 hours per week the opportunity to earn X%--we are testing two different incentives, 5% and 10%--more on their hours each 30 days (for 90 days test period) if they work more than 120 hours in the 30 days. There are conditions to this incentive: Care Pros must meet minimum standards, be in good standing, have high performance, and have no trust and safety issues. At least 25% of their hours must come from ongoing clients, and bonused shifts will not count towards the goal. We have had strong interest in participation to date.

We expect monthly incentives to drive hours worked per Care Pro (thereby increasing supply in the market) and also to have an impact on Care Pro retention via ability to serve multiple ongoing clients and via improved CP utilization at more than 85% of desired hours.

If this type of incentivization is successful–we believe from experience outside of Honor it will be–we will build a suite of similar incentives to use based on market conditions at a market level.

SKUs make staffing measurable. Each visit type has a coverage ratio. Once a Care Pro is hired, we use the same structure to maximize their hours and give them consistency–two inputs we control that drive retention. We are no longer relying on anecdotes or incomplete information, and instead see where we’re understaffed, we know when Care Pros aren’t being fully utilized, and we act before it affects service quality. This combination is how we protect capacity and grow steadily and sustainably..

I said in my start of year update I was excited about the future.I remain excited and I hope you are, too.  We are building the scalable and durable infrastructure to allow us all to grow through trusted client relationships and amazing jobs for Care Pros, and ultimately to deliver on our mission, together.

1 The point is that we are taking the time, across all of our business, to build the core [mechanized] systems that will allow us to understand, scale, and refine.

2 Staffing to me is making the “best decision” for our clients (and Care Pros) given the Care Pros we have available at that moment in time. This is all about matching clients and Care Pros, while honoring all of the constraints, with the goal of still creating exceptional matches to improve consistency, limit the risk of cancellations, and utilize our best Care Pros (H/H).

3 Workforce management is the combination of hiring, training, and retaining our Care Pros. The purpose of this combination of workstreams is to ensure that we are continuing to improve the quality and supply of Care Pros.

4 The defects most predictive of churn:  Unique Honor Reps, Cancellations, % of visits staffed with H/H Care Pros (the problem is when the visit is not staffed with H/H CPs), and Excess Care Pros on schedule.

5 Someone is going to think “why don’t you stop them from happening in the first place?” Clearly that is the goal, but I don’t think that the system will ever be defect free (at least in my experience, no systems ever reached this state) and I think that in our business we all know that “life happens.”  To this end, we need some of our most critical processes to be fault tolerant.

6 This is a score that combines the 4 defects into a “single view” so we can understand the “lived experience” of that client during their Start of Care (SOC) period.

7 We looked at thousands of Care Pros, hundreds of thousands of completed visits and dozens of potential measurements across several years to identify a set of objective criteria we use to grade performance along two axes – reliability (does this CP show up when they say they will) and care quality (are they able to sustain positive, enduring relationships with clients). Although these axes only consider a relatively narrow subset of behavior (specifically things that we could measure objectively), the rankings are strongly correlated with a wide variety of additional metrics. So H/H care pros are not just good at showing up on-time, they’re also overwhelmingly more likely to be favored by clients and sustain employment. Most importantly, clients who see more H/H Care Pros during their first 30 days are dramatically less likely to churn. What is most important is that we know that if we send a “not H/H quality” Care Pro to a customer that this in isolation will increase the risk of client churn by 100%.

8 We are starting with a simple first iteration that gives us a clear safety buffer while we gather more data on how much “safety stock” of Care Pros we need.

9 A forecast of future SKU-level demand based on historical shift volume, time pattern, and care complexity, expressed in weekly hours. This allows us to visualize trends, spot seasonality, and compare expected demand against available CP capacity by SKU.

10 Once we understand this there are a number of exciting things that can start to happen 1) we can reserve hard-to \-find Care Pros and not staff them on “easy assignments”; 2) as many of these skills are mutable we can start to upskill Care Pros on a demand weighted basis; 3) we can assign our highest leverage Care Pros where they create the most leverage, not just where demand shows up but where their impact on growth, coverage or client experience is greatest.

11 We are using the term model here to refer to a machine learning model.

12 We know we have clear performance signal after 17 visits.

13 Time between ‘hired’ and attending first client visit.

14  H/H status at 30 or 90 days / number CP hired (cohorted).

15  In the first 3 days of this program we have 7 CPs become eligible and 3 of them had their welcome call within 24 hours of orientation.

16 Ongoing client here means a Care Pro is assigned to one client for at least one ongoing weekly visit for the foreseeable future  e.g. CP Rebecca is assigned to Client John every Wednesday at 1-5 p.m.

17 We know that there are other areas that contribute to Care Pro churn and, in time, we will also look at these defects and their correlation but for now we are focused on solving for H/H Care Pros being utilized at 85% or more of their desired hours and being staffed on more than one ongoing client.

18 To date, we have had no degradation in acceptance rates as a result of flexing into non-preferred times on schedule.

19 Other markets remained relatively flat on utilization through the period of this pilot (where utilization is % of stated desired hours that CPs are working).

20 We had a 29% opt in rate for eligible Care Pros.