RESTRUCTURING COSTS AND ACCRUALS (Notes)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

2016 Restructuring Plan

In the first quarter of 2016, the Company commenced restructuring actions that are part of a broad restructuring plan encompassing a series of measures intended to allow the Company to more efficiently operate in a leaner, and more directed cost structure. These include reductions in the Company’s workforce, facilities consolidation, transferring certain business processes to lower cost regions, and reducing other third-party services costs. In connection with this restructuring plan, the Company expects to incur incremental cash expenditures of approximately $25 million relating to termination benefits, facility costs, employee overlap expenses and related actions. The Company expects approximately $14 million of the expenditures will be recorded as restructuring costs in the quarters ending December 31, 2015 through June 30, 2017, of which $8.6 million in the aggregate was recorded in the quarters ended December 31, 2015 and March 31, 2016. The Company anticipates that the restructuring plan will be substantially complete by the end of the second quarter of 2017 and will result in annualized costs savings of approximately $68 million.

During the quarter ended December 31, 2015, the Company recorded restructuring costs of $5.8 million, which represented an initial elimination of 111 positions worldwide during January and February of 2016. During the quarter ended March 31, 2016, the Company recorded restructuring costs of $2.8 million, representing the elimination of an additional 63 positions worldwide.

Prior Years’ Restructuring Plans

The remaining accrual balance of $1.4 million as of March 31, 2016 was related to the closure of part of the Company’s Mountain View, California, and Dublin, Ireland facilities under restructuring plans that were made in 2012 and 2008. No further actions are anticipated under those plans.

Restructuring Summary

The following table sets forth the activity in the restructuring accruals for the three months ended March 31, 2016 (in thousands):



	Employee- Related			Facilities/ Other- Related			Total
Accrual balance as of December 31, 2015	$	5,509		$	1,671		$	7,180
New restructuring charges – operating expenses	2,777			—			2,777
Accretion	—			66			66
Cash payments	(2,454		)	(327		)	(2,781		)
Foreign exchange impact on ending balance	(12		)	12			—
Accrual balance as of March 31, 2016	$	5,820		$	1,422		$	7,242

The employee-related accruals as of March 31, 2016 represent severance costs to former employees that will be paid out within twelve months, and are, therefore, included in the caption “accrued expenses and other current liabilities” in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

The facilities/other-related accruals as of March 31, 2016 represent contractual lease payments, net of estimated sublease income, on space vacated as part of the Company’s restructuring actions. The leases, and payments against the amounts accrued, extend through 2021 unless the Company is able to negotiate earlier terminations. Of the total facilities/other-related accruals, $0.8 million is included in the caption “accrued expenses and other current liabilities” and $0.6 million is included in the caption “other long-term liabilities” in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2016.