Restructuring

9 Months Ended

Feb. 28, 2022

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

Restructuring

NOTE 14 — RESTRUCTURING

In fiscal 2021, the Company announced a new digitally empowered phase of its Consumer Direct Offense strategy: Consumer Direct Acceleration. During fiscal 2021, the Company substantially completed a series of leadership and operating model changes to streamline and speed up the strategic execution of the Consumer Direct Acceleration. For the three and nine months ended February 28, 2022, the Company recognized an immaterial amount of related employee termination costs and, to a lesser extent, stock-based compensation expense.

During the three months ended February 28, 2021, the Company recognized employee termination costs of $23 million and $6 million within Operating overhead expense and Cost of sales, respectively, and made cash payments of $99 million. For the nine months ended February 28, 2021, the Company recognized employee termination costs of $168 million and $36 million within Operating overhead expense and Cost of sales, respectively, and made cash payments of $170 million.

Additionally, the related stock-based compensation expense recorded within Operating overhead expense and Cost of sales was immaterial for the three months ended February 28, 2021, and was $40 million and $4 million, respectively, for the nine months ended February 28, 2021.

For all periods presented these costs were classified within Corporate.