Restructuring Costs

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2021

RESTRUCTURING COSTS

Each year the Company incurs costs to size its businesses to levels appropriate for current economic conditions and to continually improve its cost structure and operational efficiency, deploy assets globally, and remain competitive on a worldwide basis. Costs result from numerous individual actions implemented across the Company's various operating units on an ongoing basis and can include costs for moving facilities to best-cost locations, restarting plants after relocation or geographic expansion to better serve local markets, reducing forcecount or the number of facilities, exiting certain product lines, and other costs resulting from asset deployment decisions (such as contract termination costs, asset write-downs and vacant facility costs).

Restructuring expenses were $150, $284 and $95 for 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Company expects fiscal year 2022 restructuring expense to be approximately $150.

Restructuring costs by business segment follows:


	2019		2020	2021
Automation Solutions	$	65	232	123

Climate Technologies	20		23	15
Tools & Home Products	7		21	7
Commercial & Residential Solutions	27		44	22

Corporate	3		8	5

Total	$	95	284	150

Costs incurred in 2021 relate to the Company's initiatives to improve operating margins that began in the third quarter of fiscal 2019 and were expanded in the third quarter of fiscal 2020 in response to the effects of COVID-19 on demand for the Company's products. Actions taken in 2021 included workforce reductions of approximately 3,600 positions and the exit of eight production facilities worldwide. Costs incurred in 2020 and 2019 primarily relate to the Company's initiatives to improve operating margins that began in the third quarter of fiscal 2019 and were expanded in the third quarter of fiscal 2020 in response to the effects of COVID-19 on demand for the Company's products. Expenses incurred in 2020 and 2019 included actions to exit six and two facilities, and eliminate approximately 5,400 and 1,100 positions, respectively.

The change in the liability for restructuring costs during the years ended September 30 follows:


	2020		Expense		Utilized/Paid		2021
Severance and benefits	$	176		112		116	172
Other	5			38		39	4
Total	$	181		150		155	176


	2019		Expense		Utilized/Paid		2020
Severance and benefits	$	62		239		125	176
Other	7			45		47	5
Total	$	69		284		172	181

The tables above do not include $38 and $20 of costs related to restructuring actions incurred for the year ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, that are required to be reported in cost of sales and selling, general and administrative expenses.