The official World’s Happiest Workplaces 2025 List has been published by a leading employee experience platform, WorkL, showcasing the happiest workplaces globally.
The World’s Happiest Workplaces include; Bunnings – Retail – Australia; Kerry – Manufacturing of Consumer Goods – USA; TUI UK – Travel and Leisure – UK; CommBank – Financial Services – Australia; Department for Higher Education – Education and Research – South Africa; Walmart – Retail – USA; First National Bank – South Africa; KFC – Hospitality – UAE; Samsung – Technology – South Korea; Queensland Government – Public Sector and Government – Australia; Capitec Bank – Financial Services – South Africa; ServiceNow – Technology – UK; Emirates Airline – Travel and Leisure – UAE; Adidas Germany – Manufacturing of Consumer Goods – Germany; Lidl Italy – Retail – Italy; Pinnacle Homes – Construction and Building Materials – Philippines; and Pingo Doce – Retail – Portugal.
The comprehensive list of winners, compiled by WorkL, the employee experience platform that measures, tracks and improves employee engagement and employee happiness at work, saw over 100,000 organisations entered for their 2025 awards. And 52,000 companies globally made the list which can be searched by organisation name or filtered by 25 different industries, countries and 10 categories.
Over a million employees took WorkL’s Happy at Work Test to enter their organisation into these awards. The anonymous test, which takes less than 10 minutes for employees to take for free, looks at various areas that impact work life, including WorkL’s Six Steps to Workplace Happiness; Wellbeing, Job Satisfaction, Reward & Recognition, Information Sharing, Empowerment and Instilling Pride. Organisations who scored 70 and over are included in the exclusive list.