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Supporting Employees Through COVID-19

Wellness Despite Uncertainty

Mental health and wellness are always a priority at Expedia Group, but we have taken extra care to protect wellbeing as a result of the uncertainty and

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unrest caused by COVID-19.

Our well-being hub provides resources for employees on physical, emotional, mental, social, and financial well-being, as well as resources specific to our unique circumstances, including support for rejoining the workforce and adjusting to working from home.

We continue to actively monitor regional health guidance from local governments. We took a number of actions to provide additional support to our employees during the pandemic, including:

• A temporary, voluntary reduced work week program for employees who are parents and caregivers or who have other personal needs; • The expansion of our wellness reimbursement program, which provides reimbursement for certain health and wellness expenses, to allow employees to use the benefit for the purchase of home office equipment, virtual mental and emotional health services, and online education; • Recognizing the current limitations on travel and the need for greater wellness assistance, we provided employees with the flexibility to use our travel reimbursement benefit program for health and wellness expenses; • The creation of a COVID-19 Resource

Center, providing quick access to important resources for employees working from home, including mental and physical health resources, access to our employee assistance program, regular updates from our Inclusion & Diversity Team, social discussion forums, and updates on office closings and re-openings; and • The launch of our Junior Journeys and a YMCA partnership, focused on connecting employees who are caregivers to resources that provide needed support for children, including homework help, IT support, and storytelling.

Mental health counseling is available in traditional forms and virtually through chat-based services to accommodate our new remote working spaces.

We have also made leadership trainings a priority to teach managers the language of wellness and allow them to start conversations and check in with their employees in a meaningful way.

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