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 […]
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 […]
See How Indonesia Did on Southeast Asia’s Best Workplaces in Technology List
Five companies certified in Indonesia made the 2026 regional list, in a country of 284 million people whose digital economy is projected to pass US$130 billion. Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s largest digital market by every meaningful measure: 284 million people, e-commerce on track to break US$100 billion in annual value by the end of 2026, […]
Indonesia’s Leadership Credibility Crisis: The Data In 2026
Key Insights The biggest risk for Indonesian organizations is overconfidence. Indonesian HR leaders rate culture and capability at 92.6 out of 100. Employees rate the same organizations at just 65.7, creating a 26.9‑point gap. On paper the Indonesian workplace right now looks like a regional standout. In a new study by experts in workplace […]
The New Business As Usual: Inside Indonesian Workplaces in 2026
How would your employees describe their workplace a friend? To find Indonesia’s Best Workplaces in 2026, we asked more than 74,000 employees that exact question. Indonesia has one of the most dynamic workforces in Southeast Asia and, right now, one of the more compelling workplace stories in the Southeast Asia region. In 2012, Gallup recorded […]
Indonesia’s Outsourcing Shake-Up Is Also A Question Of Workplace Culture
In Indonesia informal workers make up nearly 75% of total employment and, for most, the concept of company culture is something that never seems to apply to them. Without formal employers or consistent policies, concepts like values, belonging, and employee experience are often out of reach. That structural reality makes the Minister of Manpower’s latest […]
Your First Year with Great Place To Work: From Survey Design to Employer Branding
Key Highlights Job seekers are 15 times more likely to choose a company that’s been Certified as a great workplace by its own employees. The companies that get the most value from their first year treat Certification as a 12-month program, not a one-time badge. Even organizations that don’t reach the certification threshold walk away […]
How NagaCorp Backs Top Workplace Wellness With Ruthless Data Discipline
Between 2023 and 2025 NagaCorp, the Hong Kong-listed gaming and hospitality company that operates Phnom Penh’s only integrated casino resort, NagaWorld, processed somewhere between 27,000 and 33,000 in-house medical clinic visits per year. The result, expertly predicted, was that in the same window, the number of employees requiring formal sick leave dropped at a compound […]