RESTRUCTURING COSTS AND ACCRUALS

2016 Restructuring Plan

In February 2016, the Company committed to a restructuring plan that encompasses 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.

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. During the quarter ended June 30, 2016, the Company recorded additional restructuring costs of $0.4 million, and recoveries totaling $0.6 million as a result of severance pay estimate changes primarily for the eliminated positions in Europe. During the quarter ended September 30, 2016, the Company recorded restructuring charges of $2.4 million related to severance costs for an additional 60 positions eliminated and severance pay estimate adjustments, and $2.1 million for the partial closure of facilities in Burlington, Massachusetts, which included non-cash amounts of $1.1 million for fixed asset write-off.

Prior Years’ Restructuring Plans

In September 2016, the Company recorded a revision of restructuring costs of $0.8 million resulting from an update to the sublease assumption related to the Company’s Mountain View, California facility that was partially abandoned in 2012.

The accrual balance of $1.7 million as of September 30, 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, respectively. No further actions are anticipated under those plans.

Restructuring Summary

The following table sets forth the activity in the restructuring accruals for the nine months ended September 30, 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	5,536			943			6,479
Revisions of estimated liabilities	(501		)	763			262
Non-cash write-offs	—			1,137			1,137
Accretion	—			211			211
Cash payments	(7,053		)	(988		)	(8,041		)
Foreign exchange impact on ending balance	(72		)	8			(64		)
Accrual balance as of September 30, 2016	$	3,419		$	3,745		$	7,164

The employee-related accruals as of September 30, 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 September 30, 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 December 2021 unless the Company is able to negotiate earlier terminations. Of the total facilities/other-related balance, $1.1 million is included in the caption “accrued expenses and other current liabilities”, $1.5 million is included in the caption “other long-term liabilities”, and $1.1 million of fixed assets write-off relating to the partial closure of facilities in Burlington, Massachusetts is reflected in the caption “property and equipment, net” in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2016.