
“We embrace choice in our environment-and we want employees to 'Work Your Way,’” Burgess says. Many Expedia employees had already started using their personal Dropbox accounts to collaborate across operating systems with colleagues around the world. “We have new employees who want to collaborate, but use different tools based on where they’re coming from,” says Chris Burgess, Vice President of IT, Expedia Group. This distribution across regions and time zones has created the need for teams to seamlessly work together. Their teams span various brands, lines of business, areas of expertise-including technology, retail, marketing, product, and engineering-and also the globe.


Once a small team based entirely out of Bellevue, Washington, Expedia Group today is an 18,000-person enterprise with a portfolio of travel brands, including Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, and Hotwire, among others.Įxpedia is a truly global company. When Expedia launched in 1996, the online travel agency helped spark a revolution in the industry, giving people the power to book their own trips with just a keyboard and mouse.
