Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

The Company leases office facilities under non-cancelable operating leases with terms generally ranging between ten and twenty-five years. The Company utilizes these leased office facilities for use by its employees in countries in which the Company conducts its business. The Company’s leases have no restrictions on the payment of dividends, the acquisition of debt or additional lease obligations, or entering into additional lease obligations. The leases also do not contain significant purchase options.

Operating leases are recognized on the consolidated balance sheets as ROU assets and operating lease liabilities based on the present value of the remaining future minimum payments over the lease term at commencement date of the lease.

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company determined that $6 million and $19 million of its ROU assets, respectively, were impaired and recorded a charge to the consolidated statements of income with an offsetting reduction to ROU assets.

The following table provides additional information about the Company’s property leases:


	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(In millions)	2023		2022		2023			2022
Lease Cost:
Operating lease cost (a)	$	82	$	84	$	243		$	262
Short-term lease cost	1		1		4			3
Variable lease cost	31		35		94			99
Sublease income	(2)		(3)		(8)			(12)
Net lease cost	$	112	$	117	$	333		$	352
Other information:
Operating cash outflows from operating leases					$	284		$	286
Right of use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities					$	177		$	148
Weighted-average remaining lease term – real estate					8.1 years			8.4 years

Weighted-average discount rate – real estate leases					3.28		%	2.87		%

(a) Excludes ROU asset impairment charges.

Future minimum lease payments for the Company’s operating leases as of September 30, 2023 are as follows:


(In millions)	Real Estate Leases
Remainder of 2023	$	92
2024	354
2025	325
2026	302
2027	265
2028	188
Subsequent years	680
Total future lease payments	2,206
Less: Imputed interest	(260)
Total	$	1,946
Current lease liabilities	$	303
Long-term lease liabilities	1,643
Total lease liabilities	$	1,946

Note: The above table excludes obligations for leases with original terms of twelve months or less which have not been recognized as a ROU asset or liability in the consolidated balance sheets.

As of September 30, 2023, the Company had additional operating real estate leases that had not yet commenced of $56 million. These operating leases will commence over the next twelve months.