STOCK-BASED AWARDS - Employee Stock Purchase Plan (Details) - Employee Stock $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023 USD ($) period
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Consecutive offering period	24 months
Number of purchase periods \| period	4
Purchase period	6 months
Percentage of purchase price of common stock	85.00%
Unrecognized share-based compensation expense \| $	$ 33.3
Unamortized share-based compensation, recognition period	1 year 8 months 12 days

Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-based Payment Award, Consecutive Offering Period

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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-based Payment Award, Number Of Purchase Periods

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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-based Payment Award, Purchase Period

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Amount of cost not yet recognized for nonvested award under share-based payment arrangement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (i)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=128089324&loc=d3e5070-113901

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Weighted-average period over which cost not yet recognized is expected to be recognized for award under share-based payment arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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