Costs Associated with Exit and Restructuring Activities

In the first quarter 2017, the Company’s executive leadership approved an initiative to continue the company’s efforts to increase operational efficiency (the “Productivity Plan”). The Company expects the Productivity Plan to build upon the exit and restructuring initiatives specific to the acquisition of the Enterprise business (“Enterprise”) from Motorola Solutions, Inc. in October 2014, (the “Acquisition Plan” or the “Acquisition”). Expected actions under the Productivity Plan may include actions related to organizational design changes, process improvements and automation. Implementation of actions identified through the Productivity Plan is expected to be substantially complete by December 2018 with the first full year of financial benefits realized in 2019. The Company has not finalized its estimate of one-time implementation costs, exit and restructuring charges, or expected benefits that may result from these efforts and will provide updates on these items in future periodic filings. Exit and restructuring costs are not included in the operating results of our segments as they are not deemed to impact the specific segment measures as reviewed by our Chief Operating Decision Maker and therefore are reported as a component of Corporate, eliminations. See Note 13 Segment Information.

Total exit and restructuring charges of $6 million life-to-date specific to the Productivity Plan have been recorded through September 30, 2017 and relate to severance and related benefits, lease exit costs and other expenses. Exit and restructuring charges of $1 million were recorded in the current quarter.

Total exit and restructuring charges of $69 million life-to-date specific to the Acquisition Plan have been recorded through September 30, 2017 and include severance and related benefits, lease exit costs and other expenses. Charges related to the Acquisition Plan for the current quarter and nine-month period ended September 30, 2017 were $4 million, respectively. The Company expects to complete the actions of the Acquisition Plan by the first quarter of 2018. Total remaining charges associated with this plan are expected to be in the range of $3 million to $4 million.

The Company incurred total exit and restructuring costs as follows (in millions):



	Cumulative costs incurred through December 31, 2016		Costs incurred for the nine-months ended September 30, 2017		Cumulative costs incurred through September 30, 2017
Severance, related benefits and, other expenses	$	54	$	9	$	63
Obligations for future non-cancellable lease payments	11		1		12
Total	$	65	$	10	$	75

A rollforward of the exit and restructuring accruals is as follows (in millions):



	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2017			October 1, 2016			September 30, 2017			October 1, 2016
Balance at the beginning of the period	$	7		$	13		$	10		$	15
Charged to earnings, net	5			7			10			17
Cash paid	(4		)	(4		)	(12		)	(16		)
WLAN divestiture	—			(2		)	—			(2		)
Balance at the end of the period	$	8		$	14		$	8		$	14

Liabilities related to exit and restructuring activities are included in the following balance sheet captions in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets (in millions):



	September 30, 2017		December 31, 2016
Accrued liabilities	$	6	$	7
Other long-term liabilities	2		3
Total liabilities related to exit and restructuring activities	$	8	$	10

Settlement of the specified long-term balance will be completed by October 2023 due to the remaining obligation of non-cancellable lease payments associated with exited facilities.