Our employees are fundamental to delivering on our mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. By cultivating a leadership team and workforce that reflects the broad spectrum of people we work with, we gain valuable insights from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences that help us understand the needs of our global travelers and partners. As such, we seek to attract, develop and retain highly-skilled talent and to foster opportunities for colleagues to grow and develop their careers.
We are a global business, made up of more than 140 different nationalities, with headquarters and offices all over the world. As of December 31, 2024, approximately 46% of our employees were women, approximately 34% of our leadership (which includes vice presidents and above for all brands except Booking.com, which includes senior directors and above due to a greater number of employees) were women, and approximately 26% of our technology positions were filled by women.
The EEO-1 data disclosed below includes the U.S. workforce only, which represents approximately 13% of our global workforce as of December 31, 2024. The U.S. is one of the few countries where we are permitted to collect such data. While a significant percentage of our workforce is located in jurisdictions that may present challenges to tracking employee racial or ethnic demographics for legal reasons, we seek other ways to assess our employees’ experience.
This is a required format for EEO-1 data reporting, and the data disclosed in this table includes the U.S. market only as of 12.31.24, which makes up approximately 13% of our global workforce.