Stand out as one of Southeast Asia’s top workplaces. Today’s employees want to work where they feel valued and celebrated. This recognition strengthens your employer brand, attracts talent who share your values, and gives your people a meaningful moment to celebrate the culture they’ve helped build.
List Application Deadline: 15 July 2026
We are honored to recognize our first list with our publishing partner, Fortune – the global leader in recognizing excellence and innovation in workplaces.
For nearly a century, Fortune has been trusted for its famous iconic and influential lists, including the Fortune Global 500 and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women. In 2024, Fortune launched the inaugural Southeast Asia 500 and Most Powerful Women Asia.
The annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ list, in partnership with Great Place To Work®, has celebrated outstanding workplaces in the U.S. and Europe. Now, for the very first time, we are collaborating with Fortune to publish 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Southeast Asia 2025.
Be recognized as one of the people-first companies in Southeast Asia and be eligible for other recognitions on national and global Best Workplaces™ lists.
Get the premier distinction that helps you attract the best talent and secure a competitive advantage.
Gain insights on how your workplace culture measures up to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Southeast Asia.
Great Place To Work® Certification™ is the first step toward qualifying for the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Southeast Asia and other prestigious Best Workplaces™ lists.
Fill out the form and our team will connect with you to begin your Certification journey.
The list will feature 100 companies. To be eligible, organisations must have at least 200 employees.
We evaluate all Great Place To Work Certified™ companies using our For All™ Model and Methodology, which measures the lived employee experience across trust, fairness, inclusion, and leadership effectiveness.
Companies that demonstrate outstanding workplace culture and consistently high employee experiences are recognized on the list.
Great Place To Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors proven to deliver enhanced revenue and increased innovation. They help companies worldwide survey their employees, benchmark results, identify gaps, and develop their culture.
A total of 100 companies will be ranked. There are no segments—the list features a full ranking of 100 companies across Southeast Asia.
Companies must meet these criteria to participate:
– Be Great Place To Work Certified™ in one of the following countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand or Vietnam as of September 5 2025.
– Publicly listed, privately owned or state-owned enterprises headquartered in Southeast Asia; or national or regional divisions of multinational companies with offices in Southeast Asia
– Employ at least 200 people in Southeast Asia at the point of Certification.
To be featured on the lists, an organization must first become Certified™ as a great workplace. Through the Certification process, Great Place To Work® gathers insightful employee feedback and statistics utilizing their anonymous, research-driven Trust Index™ survey, in addition to company-provided details on your organization’s background and composition. To become an official list maker, a company must be among the top-performing firms and pass an in-depth assessment conducted by their culture specialists.
Great Place To Work® assesses their group of great workplaces using their For All™ Model and Methodology. The honor goes to the most achieving businesses who successfully complete a demanding evaluation of their workplace culture and employee experience.
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Deadline for Registration: 15 July 2026
Register by this date so you have enough time to sign your order form, set up your survey, and prepare your teams before launch.
Deadline for Certification: 15 August 2026
You’ll have one month after registration as a window to complete the process to complete the survey process and achieve Certification for eligibility.
Companies need to have at least 200 employees at the point of Certification to be eligible for this List. Certified companies with fewer than 200 employees remain eligible for other GPTW’s Best Workplaces lists.
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Southeast Asia 2025 list will rank 100 companies based on the comprehensive survey data provided in the employees’ feedback. Surveys must meet strict requirements for how they are distributed and the percentage of employees who respond to ensure they accurately represent honest feedback from the company’s full population.
Companies with the broadest sets of employees who report positive workplace experiences will receive the highest rankings on the list.
The inaugural Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Southeast Asia will be published on:
• December 2, 2025 on Fortune.com/asia
• December/January 2025 issue of Fortune Asia magazine
Great Place To Work® keeps results completely confidential and never discloses the names of companies who participate in the process but do not get recognized. Participating provides the benefits of employee feedback, and you can use their reports and analytics to gain actionable insights about your business.
The Great Place To Work® survey enables employees to share confidential quantitative and qualitative feedback about their organization’s culture and impact on its community by responding to 60 statements on a 5-point scale and answering two open-ended questions.
Through the survey, employees tell us whether leaders are accessible, communicate honestly and clearly, and if their actions match their words. They tell us whether they feel respected as individuals, if they receive training benefits, appreciation, support for their well-being and opportunities to contribute. They tell us whether they believe their company is fair related to pay, profits, promotions, recognition, favoritism and opportunities. They tell us if they are proud of their work, their team, and their company and if they feel they make a difference, and their work is meaningful. And they tell us whether they enjoy the people they work with, feel cared for and can be themselves.
List rankings are based on this employee feedback, which we analyze to determine the extent to which this experience is shared by the full workforce. Great Place To Work® measures the differences in survey responses across demographic groups and roles within each organization to assess both the quality and consistency of the employee experience.
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Southeast Asia list recognizes the companies that outperform all others across the region. To determine this, we evaluate the extent to which each company surpasses its peers in every country within the region. We also consider the company’s overall regional presence, including the number of employees across the region, the number of countries where the company is Certified™, and the number of countries where it has conducted employee surveys.
Surveys must meet strict requirements for how they are distributed and the percentage of employees who respond to ensure they accurately represent honest feedback from the company’s full population.