Stand out as one of Southeast Asia’s top workplaces.

The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Southeast Asia recognises the region’s most trusted employers. One hundred companies across ten countries, decided by the people who work there.

List application deadline: 15 July 2027
About the list

A world-class benchmark, built for Southeast Asia.

Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For™ has defined what a great workplace looks like since 1998. Fortune and Great Place To Work® now bring the same standard to Southeast Asia, so the region’s best employers stand on the same global stage.

Every place is earned through confidential employee feedback. Companies rise only when trust is shared across every role, level and country, so a ranking reflects the whole organisation.

1998

Fortune publishes its first 100 Best Companies to Work For™ list.

2025

Fortune and Great Place To Work® launch the Southeast Asia edition.

2027

Your people decide whether you take your place on the next list.

Why trust pays

High-trust cultures outperform.

The companies on Fortune’s lists lead on the numbers that matter to boards and investors.

3x

Stock market returns

The Fortune 100 Best Companies have outperformed the stock market by three times over 28 years.1

FTSE Russell, Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ vs Russell 3000 (US)

2x

Employee retention

Great Place To Work Certified™ companies keep their people twice as well as the market average.

Great Place To Work® research vs US Bureau of Labor Statistics averages

5.5x

Revenue growth

Companies where more employees take part in innovation grow revenue faster.

Great Place To Work®, The business case for high-trust culture
Why it matters

What a place on the list delivers.

01

Your name next to Fortune’s.

Published on Fortune.com/asia and carried across the region’s business press.

02

First choice for talent.

Proof candidates trust, because your people decided it.

03

Confidence in the boardroom.

Evidence that trust is led with the same rigour as capital.

04

A win your people earned.

A result every team, in every country, helped build.

How it works

From one survey to Fortune.com.

Every company on the list starts with the same survey. Your people decide the rest.

1
By 15 July

Register

Register with our regional team to put your organisation in the running.

2
By 15 August

Survey your people

Run the Trust Index™ survey across your Southeast Asian teams. A score of 65% or more earns Certification™.

3
After Certification™

We rank the list

We assess every Certified™ company with the For All™ Methodology.

4
November

Published with Fortune

The 100 companies are revealed on Fortune.com/asia.

One survey, five lists

One survey puts you in the running for five lists.

A single Trust Index™ survey makes a Certified™ company eligible for every list below, subject to each list’s criteria.

Trust Index Programs
Trust Index™ survey and Certification™

Best Workplaces™ in Indonesia

Asia’s Best Workplaces™

Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™

Southeast Asia’s Best Workplaces™ in Technology

Southeast Asia’s Best Workplaces™ in Healthcare & Biopharma

Get started

Take your place among the region’s best.

Great Place To Work Certification™ is the way onto the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Southeast Asia. Tell us about your teams in the region and we will plan your survey with you.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions.

The Southeast Asia edition of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, which has ranked employers since 1998. It is produced by Fortune and Great Place To Work, and published by Fortune.

Great Place To Work Certified companies with at least 1,000 employees across Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Using the For All Methodology. Employees respond confidentially to 60 statements and two open questions, and a company ranks highly only when that positive experience is shared across roles, levels and groups. Regional headcount and the number of countries where a company is Certified and surveyed also count.

Yes. One survey covers every Southeast Asian country you operate in.

The list is published each November on Fortune.com/asia. 2027 dates are confirmed early in the year.

Your results stay confidential. Companies that do not make the list are never named, and you keep your reports and Certification.

Your place on the 2027 list starts here.

Could you be a
Fortune 100 list maker?

Run the Trust Index™ survey, earn Certification™ and put your culture in front of the region.