Bright Horizons is a United States–based child-care provider and is the largest provider of employer-sponsored child care. It also provides back-up child care and elder care, tuition program management, education advising, and student loan repayment programs. It is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Bright Horizons Children’s Centers, Inc. was founded in 1986 by Linda A. Mason and Roger H. Brown. Mason and Brown’s Cambridge home was used as the company headquarters. In 2000, the company moved its headquarters to Watertown, Massachusetts. That year, London-based Nurseryworks and Dublin-based Circle of Friends become part of the Bright Horizons family, making it a global company.

Conducting business in the United States, Europe and Canada, Bright Horizons has created employer-sponsored child care and early education programs for more than 700 clients, including more than 90 of the Fortune 500.

Bright Horizons manages more than 600 child care centers for many of the world’s leading corporations, hospitals, universities and government agencies. All of their child care centers are designed to meet the standards of excellence set by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Bright Horizons helps children worldwide develop the skills they need to prepare for academic excellence and success in life, while partnering with employers to support their employees as they strive to balance the demands of work and family.

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