Best Workplaces in Asia 2026: How Southeast Asia Performed

Key insights Six Southeast Asian markets generated 121 winning placements across Best Workplaces in Asia. Of those 121 placements, 101 came from large employers with 500 or more staff in Asia. Thirty-seven of the 200 ranked companies won in these six markets and in no other Asian market. Great Place To Work® recognised 200 companies […]
For Accenture, Investing in Leaders Helps Employees Embrace Change

Best Workplaces in Asia™ 2026 · Case study “Technology is not going to build trust or create culture. People will.” Lakshmi C · Senior Managing Director and CHRO, Accenture India Company Accenture List ranking No. 9, Best Workplaces in Asia™ 2026 Leadership program High Trust Leadership Development, with Great Place To Work Markets featured India, […]
How Indonesia Ranked on Asia’s Best Workplaces for 2026

Key insights Indonesia holds the first and second ranked small and medium workplaces in all of Asia. Sixteen of Indonesia’s 19 companies returned from last year, the highest retention in Southeast Asia. Thirteen of the 19 rank inside Asia’s top 25, the highest share of any country on the list. Indonesia placed 19 companies on […]
People Lens: Hope Is A Leadership Choice

Hope, like trust, is not a word one would readily associate with business and the economy. After all it can sound too wistful, too whimsical. It seems far removed from the hard facts and strategy and data organizations rely on to succeed in the marketplace. While preparing for my keynote for the Indonesia’s Best Workplaces […]
What do leaders at Indonesia’s Best Workplaces do differently?

Key insights 92% of employees at Indonesia’s Best Workplaces say people are willing to give extra effort, against 75% at typical Indonesian companies. 89.1% say they generally trust their workplace, against 71.4% at typical Indonesian companies. 85.2% say management delivers on its promises, against 56.6% at typical Indonesian companies. Across the 2026 Best Workplaces in […]
Indonesia’s First State-Owned Utility To Join The Best Workplaces List

On 17 August Indonesia marks 81 years of independence. A week earlier, PT PLN (Persero) became the first state-owned enterprise to make the Best Workplaces in Indonesia list. No BUMN had managed it before. The company that keeps the lights on for 96 million people across more than 17,000 islands now sits ninth in the […]
What Indonesia’s Homegrown Best Workplaces Do Differently

Key Insights Fair hearing if treated unjustly: 85.6% at Best Workplaces, 57.3% elsewhere. Best Workplaces in Indonesia give 55% of staff room to innovate. Typical: 35%. PLN reports 0.136% voluntary turnover across nearly 47,000 employees. Floodwater came through Indo Kordsa’s tyre cord plant in Bogor Regency on 4 March 2025. The site was evacuated, nobody […]
Best Workplaces in Indonesia 2026: Lessons From The Best

What separates Indonesia’s Best Workplaces™ is the everyday experience of work: whether leaders keep their word, people are treated fairly, and employees feel they have a real stake in what happens next. Every year Cisco Indonesia employees are encouraged to spend up to ten days volunteering, on causes they choose themselves. As Managing Director Cin […]
What It Takes To Make Indonesia’s Best Workplaces List In 2026

Indonesia’s Best Workplaces™ list starts with a simple question: what is work really like for the people doing it? This year, we asked 179,248 employees across Indonesia that question through the Great Place To Work Trust Index™ Survey. Their responses identified 25 organisations where trust shows up when managers follow through, when people feel heard […]
Southeast Asia’s Best Workplaces in Technology 2026 By The Numbers

Across six countries and 219,262 employees surveyed, the 50 organizations that made this year’s inaugural Best Workplaces in Technology Southeast Asia list have one thing in common: their people believe in them. For the first time ever, Great Place To Work® has surveyed hundreds of thousands of employees across Southeast Asia to find the best […]