Happiest Workplaces®
Around the Globe
2025
The most comprehensive workplace ranking prepared to date, covering 23 countries based on Workplace Happiness.
Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe 2025 is the most comprehensive rating ever published on workplace happiness. The 964 workplaces featured on the list were selected from 18,325 companies across 23 countries, taking sectoral differences into account, and classified accordingly.
The report also includes insights from 803 senior HR executives regarding 2025 HR trends, the challenges they face, and the core strategies they employ. These executives were grouped according to their respective workplaces, allowing a comparison between the Happiest Workplaces and others in terms of distinguishing features.
In the third section of the report, the stock performance of the companies listed as the Happiest Workplaces was analyzed across the US, UK, Germany, France, and Canadian stock markets from 2010 to 2025. These were compared to national benchmark indices to explore the relationship between employee happiness and financial performance.
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The most comprehensive workplace ranking prepared to date, covering 23 countries based on Workplace Happiness.
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Happy Workplaces
The Happiest 964 workplaces selected among 18,325 companies, taking into account sectoral differences.
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Higher Financial Return
Detailed analyses comparing the stock returns of “Happy Workplaces” Listed companies in the top 5 economies.
Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe 2024
The report lists 964 Happiest Workplaces from 23 countries by country and sector, and provides a summary of the agendas of these companies and the strategies they use for employee happiness, presented section by section.
Chapter 1: Introduction, Key Findings
Chapter 2: Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe
Chapter 3: Boosting Stocks with a Smile
Chapter 4: Strategies of the Happiest Workplaces
Chapter 5: About us
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About us
This section provides information about the Happy Workplaces® consulting model, certification process, and methodology. Companies seeking to become one of the World's Happiest Workplaces can find the information they need here.
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Strategies of the Happiest Workplaces
This section covers the HR trends for 2025, the challenges they face in ensuring employee happiness, and the key strategies they use to achieve employee happiness, as reported by 803 senior HR managers in the Happy Workplaces® network (North America 23%, South America 18%, Asia 5%, Australia 2%, Europe 47%, and Africa 5%). Senior HR managers were grouped into listed and unlisted workplaces based on their locations, and their responses were compared accordingly. This determined the ways in which the Happiest Workplaces differ from other workplaces.
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Boosting Stocks with a Smile
This section of the report examines the financial performance of the companies listed on the Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe list. In this context, the stock returns of Happy Workplaces companies listed on the US, UK, Germany, France, and Canada stock exchanges for the period 2010-2025 were compared with the benchmark indicators of the respective stock exchanges. The results show that Happy Workplaces companies, without exception, achieved higher long-term returns across all stock exchanges. While the analysis results do not prove a clear cause-and-effect relationship, they do reveal a strong correlation between the two variables. Furthermore, the findings expand the scope of previous studies conducted on US stock exchanges and provide updated data.
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Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe
This section of the report includes lists of the happiest workplaces in their respective sectors across 23 countries. Unlike other lists, the Happiest Workplaces lists are designed to take sectoral differences into account. Therefore, each company on the country lists should be considered the happiest in its sector. Of the 18,325 companies included in the World's Happiest Workplaces analysis process, 964 qualified for inclusion. Details of the methodology and ranking criteria used are explained in detail in the report. The Country-Based Lists section lists the happiest workplaces in each sector in that country. The Industry Leaders section groups these companies by sector, presenting the world's happiest workplaces in each sector together.
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Introduction, Key Findings
The Introduction to Happiest Places Around the Globe 2025 provides a summary of the report's key findings. This summary provides a general overview and a more accurate interpretation of the report before delving into its details. This section also defines the concept of happiness, which underlies the report, under the heading "Understanding Employee Happiness."
Happy Workplaces® Around the Globe
The Happiest Workplaces® Around the Globe List highlights the leading companies for employee happiness in its industry in each country.
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companies in 23 countries were analyzed, with 964 workplaces making the list.
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