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Posted Nov 22, 2019, 12:47 PM
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...Now, in what appears to be a sort of culmination of 2019 growth, Qualtrics is set to more than double the space at its longtime Provo Headquarter offices to 355,000 square feet in a project that will also include two new parking structures and a three-story outdoor terrace equipped with conference areas, meeting spaces, and views of the 6-acre gardens. Cloud Village, the company’s new on-site child care facility, will accommodate 250 kids and feature “a tech-infused curriculum offering age-appropriate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.”Qualtrics to double Utah headquarters, add 1,000 employees and build ‘the MIT’ of day care facilities
PROVO — It’s been a juggernaut year of expansion news for Utah-born customer experience innovator Qualtrics, but Thursday’s unveiling of plans to double the size of its Utah County headquarters comes with a remarkable appendix — a brand-new 40,000-square-foot day care facility that will focus on arming its young wards with early exposure to the skills of tomorrow.
And while these plans, which include adding 1,000-plus new employees, have been in place for quite a while, the timeline for the Provo projects and a host of additional domestic and international expansion efforts have been expedited thanks to a still-blossoming relationship with a German tech colossus.
Just over a year ago Qualtrics was a mere four days away from its own blockbuster initial public stock offering when something even more seismic went down — the company was acquired in an $8 billion cash deal by the titan of European software, SAP...
Utah customer experience giant Qualtrics announced plans on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, to double its existing Provo headquarters and add an additional 1,000-plus jobs.
The company has wider plans in place to more than double its global workforce to 8,000 in the next five years. Qualtrics
Smith said Qualtrics is relocating some 200 new employees a year to Utah and one of the first questions the company typically gets from the newbies is, “How are the schools and what is the environment for families?” That employee feedback, his own experiences as a father of four, and a built-in urge to disrupt and improve old ways of doing things led Smith inexorably toward Cloud Village.
Utah customer experience giant Qualtrics is building a 40,000-square-foot STEM-focused day care as part of expansion plans for its Provo headquarters announced Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. The one-of-a-kind facility will be available to employees of the company with children 3 months to 5 years old and headed up by award-winning Utah education specialist Ann Whittaker. Qualtrics
“We own the building right across from our HQ and it has about 40,000 square feet of space,” Smith said. “We had this idea of ‘What if we turned it into the ultimate day care for working parents at Qualtrics?’ We thought that this could really change their lives and change the lives of their children if we do it right.
“We had a chance to design the space, pick the provider and design the curriculum. We were thinking, if you could build the MIT of day care, what would it look like?”
The Cloud Village facility will include three floors of learning centers for children ages 3 months to 5 years with a focus on leveraging an emerging technology curriculum to transform the way teachers develop learning paths for each child. That technology will include age-appropriate coding camps for the 5 year olds, interactive smartboards where teachers can help children learn basic computing skills with hands-on participation, digital creation tools that unlock creative and critical thinking skills, virtual storytelling to teach kids about cultures from around the world, and many others.
Qualtrics has hired Ann Whittaker to head the new facility, which is on track for a 2021 opening. Whitaker founded the award-winning preschool Kids Village almost 20 years ago and, according to the company, is one of Utah’s most decorated child care professionals, with awards including best preschool, best private school and best in education overall.
“At Cloud Village we will be focused on developing both the minds and character of children attending the day care,” Whittaker said in a statement. “Our goal is for the children to look forward to coming to our facility every day to foster their love of learning and exploration. With the help of innovative technology, teachers will be able to deliver superior care and children will be able to enjoy the learning process.”
The forward-thinking day care facility dovetails with the public commitment Smith has made to furthering STEM education efforts not just in his company’s hometown, but across the state.
Last year, he joined four of his tech founder colleagues in each pledging $1 million in matching funds to support efforts to make computer science education courses available in all of the state’s K-12 public schools. The gauntlet thrown down by Smith, along with Pluralsight CEO Aaron Skonnard, former InsideSales CEO Dave Elkington, DOMO CEO Josh James and Vivint Smart Home CEO Todd Pedersen bore its first fruit in August when the state unveiled the Utah Computer Science Master Plan. The plan outlines a path by which computer science classes can be made available to every Utah K-12 public school students by 2022.
Utah customer experience giant Qualtrics announced plans on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, to double its existing Provo headquarters and add an additional 1,000-plus jobs. The company has wider plans in place to more than double its global workforce to 8,000 in the next five years. Qualtrics
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