Qualtrics is laying off 117 employees in Seattle after it acquired a similar software company in a multibillion-dollar deal.
Employees at the Seattle-based company, which specializes in software that tracks and analyzes customer and employee feedback data, were first notified on Aug. 19, according to a Wednesday state regulatory filing. Their separation date from the company is Oct. 18.
The filing — a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification layoff notice — did not disclose the reason for the cuts but said it will not result in any relocated positions.
News of companywide layoffs was first reported in August, but there were no details on how many employees would be affected.
Qualtrics said in a statement that the layoffs were a result of the company's $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta, a South Bend, Ind.-based company that specializes in healthcare. The deal closed in May.
Bringing the two companies together meant making hard decisions about what the organization needed to operate and function as a single, uniform team, Qualtrics' statement said.
As a result, Qualtrics said it's restructuring the company and reducing its head count based on where it could find duplicate roles.
LinkedIn posts from Qualtrics employees in August suggest that layoffs weren't isolated to the company's Seattle office as workers in Provo, Utah, and in international offices were let go. It's unclear how many employees the company has in Seattle.
Qualtrics occupies office space in downtown Seattle at 1201 Second Ave., in the previously named 2+U office tower. Qualtrics secured the naming rights when it expanded from an office in Pioneer Square to downtown Seattle in 2019.
Qualtrics was previously acquired by the software company SAP in 2019, which eventually took the company public with an IPO in 2021. Two years later, Qualtrics went private and was bought for $12.5 billion by a group of investors, which included private equity firm Silver Lake. That same year, the company went through two rounds of layoffs, cutting more than 1,000 jobs.
While Qualtrics' layoffs are due to specific circumstances, they add to the growing number of discarded tech jobs over the past year or so. Some companies, like Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, have gone through sweeping waves of layoffs, reducing their workforces by the thousands, since May 2025. Other companies with Seattle-area offices like TikTok and Snap have collectively cut hundreds of roles as well.
Together, tech employers have collectively laid off more than 10,000 Seattle-based employees since last year, with homegrown companies including Amazon and Microsoft responsible for more than 8,900 of them.
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