Leases Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

The Company's leases are primarily leased properties across different worldwide locations where the Company conducts its operations. All of these leases are classified as operating leases. Certain leases may contain options to extend or terminate the lease at the Company's sole discretion.

As of December 31, 2021, there were no options to terminate that were accounted for in the determination of the lease term for outstanding leases, and one option to extend that was accounted for in the determination of the lease term for one of the Company's outstanding leases. As of December 31, 2020, there was one option to terminate that was accounted for in the determination of the lease term for one of the Company's outstanding leases, and no options to extend that were accounted for in the determination of the lease term for outstanding leases. Certain leases contain leasehold improvement incentives, retirement obligations, escalating clauses, rent holidays, and variable payments tied to a consumer price index. There were no restrictions or covenants for the outstanding leases as of December 31, 2021 or 2020.

The total operating lease expense was $8,180,000 in both 2021 and 2020, and $6,893,000 in 2019. The total operating lease cash payments were $8,225,000, $8,009,000, and $6,530,000 in 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively. The total lease expense for leases with a term of twelve months or less for which the Company elected not to recognize a lease asset or lease liability was $154,000, $123,000, and $275,000 in 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively.

Future operating lease cash payments are as follows (in thousands):


Year Ended December 31,	Amount
2022	$	8,508
2023	6,883
2024	3,842
2025	2,081
2026	1,346
Thereafter	5,069
	$	27,729

The discounted present value of the future lease cash payments resulted in a lease liability of $25,581,000 and $26,230,000 as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

In December 2021, the Company entered into a lease for a 65,000 square-foot building in Southborough, Massachusetts for a term of ten years to serve as a new distribution center for customers in the Americas. The transition of the current distribution center to the new Southborough facility is expected to take place during the first half of 2022. The Company will have the right and option to extend the term of this lease for an additional period of five years, commencing upon the expiration of the original ten-year term. As of December 31, 2021, this lease had not yet commenced, and therefore was not yet recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, nor did it create any significant rights and obligations. Future payment obligations associated with this lease, which are not included in the future operating lease cash payments table above, total $10,239,000, of which $670,000 is payable in 2022. The Company did not have any leases that had not yet commenced but that created significant rights and obligations as of December 31, 2020.

The weighted-average discount rate was 3.4% and 4.0% for the leases outstanding as of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. The weighted-average remaining lease term was 5.1 years for the leases outstanding as of both December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

Management closed eleven leased offices in 2020, prior to the end of their lease terms, as a part of a restructuring plan (refer to Note 22). The carrying value of the lease assets associated with these offices was reduced to zero, resulting in operating lease asset impairment charges of $3,427,000 in 2020 that are included in "Restructuring

charges" on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Remaining lease liability obligations associated with the early contract terminations totaled $1,717,000 and $2,877,000 as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and are included in "Operating lease liabilities" on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company did not record impairment charges related to operating lease assets in 2021 or 2019.The Company owns a building adjacent to its corporate headquarters that was partially occupied by a tenant during a portion of 2020, and for the entirety of 2019. This lease terminated prior to the end of its lease term during the second quarter of 2020, and the Company is now fully occupying this building for its operations. Annual rental income totaled $77,000 in 2020 and $311,000 in 2019.