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 […]
7 Questions To Ask Before Choosing an Employee Experience Platform
Key Insights 69% of employees hit at least one barrier using HR technology in the past year. Only 24% of HR staff say their function gets full value from the tech it owns. Ask vendors for weekly manager usage, not total logins. Gartner surveyed more than 1,200 employees and found 69% had run into at […]
How to Share Your Employee Survey Results
According to research by Gallup, only 8% of employees strongly agree that their organization takes action on the surveys it runs. That means that more often than not, the other 92 percent filled in a form and then felt like nothing happened. We see that gap open up time and again in the weeks after […]
We have offices in multiple countries. How should we benchmark workplace culture?
Key insights You can compare workplace culture between countries when the core survey questions are identical. Keeping 70 to 80 percent of questions identical across countries is what makes the comparison genuine. A low-scoring office improving fast is usually healthier than a high-scoring one sliding backwards. A 26-country study of survey response styles found Japan […]
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 […]
What Makes Employee Engagement Scores Crash
Key insights Falling engagement usually traces back to leadership gaps, patchy communication and employees losing sight of why their work matters. Great Place To Work research shows trust predicts retention, innovation and business performance more reliably than an engagement score does. Patterns only appear once you segment survey results by team, department and manager. Your […]
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 […]