Company: ZM
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001585521-25-000141
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Company: Zoom Communications, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 We also face risks related to recruiting and retaining talented and capable employees outside the United States, including complying with complex employment- and compensation-related laws, regulations, and practices in these international jurisdictions, and maintaining our company culture across all of our offices. We may also be unable to grant equity compensation to employees in certain countries outside of the United States due to the complexities of local laws and regulations. This may require us to offer equally compelling alternatives to supplement our compensation, such as long-term cash compensation plans or increased short-term cash compensation, in order to continue to attract and retain employees in these jurisdictions. 

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Operating internationally subjects us to new risks and increases risks that we currently face, including risks associated with:

•providing our platform and operating our business across a significant distance, in different languages and among different cultures, including the potential need to modify our platform and features to ensure that they are culturally appropriate and relevant in different countries;

•compliance with applicable international laws and regulations, including laws and regulations with respect to privacy, information security, telecommunications requirements, data protection, consumer protection, automatic renewals, and unsolicited email, and the risk of penalties to us and individual members of management or employees if our practices are deemed to be out of compliance;

•operating in foreign jurisdictions where the government may impede or interrupt our ability to provide our services or develop new products, features, and functionality;

•management of an employee base in jurisdictions that may not give us the same employment and retention flexibility as the United States;

•operating in jurisdictions that do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as the United States and the practical enforcement of such intellectual property rights outside of the United States;

•foreign government interference with our intellectual property that resides outside of the United States, such as the risk of changes in foreign laws that could restrict our ability to use our intellectual property outside of the foreign jurisdiction in which we developed it;

•integration with partners outside of the United States;

•compliance by us and our business partners with anti-corruption laws, import and export control laws, tariffs, trade barriers, economic sanctions, and other regulatory limitations on our ability to provide our platform in certain international markets;

•foreign exchange controls that might require significant lead time in setting up operations in certain geographic territories and might prevent us from repatriating cash earned outside the United States;

•political and economic instability and other political tensions between countries in which we do business;

•changes in diplomatic and trade relationships, including the continuing deterioration in diplomatic relations between the United States