Company: MTCH
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000891103-25-000027
Chunk: 75

Company: Match Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 75
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 and services that use or claim to be produced using generative AI or claim to detect its use. Further, the EU is enacting legislation aimed at updating liability rules, providing for specific liability related to generative AI or extending product liability to software and digital services. As we seek to further integrate AI technologies into our services, compliance with existing, new, and changing laws, regulations, and industry standards relating to AI may limit some uses of AI and may impose significant operational costs.

Finally, certain U.S. states and certain countries in the Middle East and Asia have laws that specifically govern dating services. At the same time, a number of U.S. states, the U.S. Congress, and some other countries such as Brazil are considering legislation that would directly regulate online dating services.

Human capital

Our people are critical to Match Group’s continued success, and we work hard to attract, retain and motivate qualified talent. As of December 31, 2024, we had approximately 2,500 full-time and approximately 10 part-time employees, which represents a 2% year-over-year decrease in employee headcount. We expect our overall headcount to grow modestly in 2025 as we expect to continue to focus on recruiting employees in technical functions such as software and product at growing brands and where critical needs arise, as well as to hire a number of employees and contractors to support our innovation and artificial intelligence initiatives.

As of December 31, 2024, approximately 67%, 1%, 13%, and 19% of our employees reside in the North America, Latin America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific regions, respectively, spanning 21 countries and reflecting various cultures, backgrounds, ages, sexes, gender identities, sexual orientations, and ethnicities. Our global workforce is highly educated, with the majority of our employees working in engineering or technical roles that are central to the technological and service innovations that drive our business. Competition for software engineers and other technical staff has historically been intense, and we expect will remain so for the foreseeable future as we continue to recruit in the most competitive markets.

We have four business units supported by a central team. These four business units consist of Tinder, Hinge, Evergreen & Emerging, and Match Group Asia. The employee distributions in each business unit are 25%, 13%, 25%, and 17%, respectively, leaving 20% to support in a centralized capacity. These distributions generally align with the size and complexity of each business unit. 

Our compensation and benefits programs are