Bright Horizons Honored as "Best Place to Work" by the Boston Business Journal for Ninth Consecutive Year

WATERTOWN, Mass., June 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Horizons Family Solutions®, a leading provider of employer-sponsored child care, early education, and work-life solutions, has been recognized as one of the "Best Places to Work" by the Boston Business Journal. This marks the ninth year in a row that Bright Horizons has been named to the list. Bright Horizons was ranked number three in the "extra-large company" category.

"The Bright Horizons family is honored to again be named to the BBJ's 'Best Places to Work' list," said Bright Horizons Chief Executive Officer David Lissy. "Each day our employees come to work committed to creating a work environment filled with collaboration, opportunities for growth, and recognition for jobs well done. Perhaps more important, they see the value in ensuring their colleagues feel supported in all aspects of life, so that they can do their best work and be their best selves. It is only because of their efforts that we have been given this recognition once again."

Bright Horizons employs nearly 25,000 employees worldwide, with more than 2,000 employees in its home state of Massachusetts. Bright Horizons also works with close to 100 Massachusetts employers, providing work-life benefits to their collective half-million employees, just in the Commonwealth. In the last five years, the company has created more than 500 jobs in its Massachusetts child care centers and global headquarters.

Organizations on the Best Places to Work list ranked highest among the nearly 400 companies whose employees filled out an anonymous survey. Companies were evaluated on the results of more than 18,000 employee-satisfaction surveys. Employees answered questionnaires that addressed such factors as their pride in the company, company encouragement, support and recognition of achievement, and relationships with co-workers and supervisors.

About Bright Horizons Family Solutions® Inc.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions® is a leading provider of high-quality child care, early education and other services designed to help employers and families better address the challenges of work and life.  The Company provides center-based full service child care, back-up dependent care and educational advisory services to more than 900 clients across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada and India, including more than 140 FORTUNE 500 companies and more than 80 of Working Mother magazine's 2014 "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers".  Bright Horizons is headquartered in Watertown, MA. The Company's web site is located at www.brighthorizons.com.

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