Fortune Names 100 Best Southeast Asian Workplaces
McThai Co., Ltd. ranks No. 11 among the companies recognized on the 2026 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For Southeast Asia list.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Jobs — General
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Fortune and Great Place To Work released the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For Southeast Asia 2026 list, recognizing 100 companies for outstanding workplaces across the region. Forty of the listed companies are certified in Thailand, including eight of the top ten.
Why it matters
The ranking is based on confidential survey responses from employees, offering a workplace-focused benchmark for companies and job seekers across Southeast Asia. It is the second year the regional list has been published.
The ranking draws on 1,322,537 employee survey responses across ten countries, with 141,019 coming from Thailand. The extraction does not specify how individual company scores were weighted, so the exact criteria behind each placement remain unclear.
The players
Fortune
Fortune is a U.S. business media brand known for its annual rankings of major companies, including its lists of best companies to work for.
Great Place To Work
Great Place To Work is a global workplace research firm that has studied employee experience since 1998 and produces the survey data behind these rankings.
McThai Co., Ltd.
McThai Co., Ltd. is the operator of McDonald's restaurants in Thailand, which it has run since opening the country's first location in 1985.
The details
Fortune and Great Place To Work named 100 companies to the 2026 Southeast Asia list, including McThai Co., Ltd. at No. 11, the highest-ranked Thai company, and Central Retail Corporation at No. 99. McThai, which opened Thailand's first McDonald's at Amarin Plaza in Bangkok in February 1985, operates more than 200 restaurants nationwide.
Timeline
• February 1985: McThai opens Thailand's first McDonald's at Amarin Plaza in Bangkok.
• 1998: Great Place To Work begins its workplace research in the United States.
• November 3, 2026: The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For Southeast Asia 2026 list is released.
Market Landscape
The list extends Great Place To Work's employee-survey methodology, rooted in its U.S. research since 1998, into a regional Southeast Asia ranking now in its second year. It positions employer reputation as a comparable metric across ten countries, offering companies a benchmark for recruiting in a competitive regional labor market.
Job seekers in Southeast Asia can use the published list to identify employers with strong employee-reported workplace ratings. The ranking does not change pay, benefits, or hiring processes at the named companies.
The takeaway
Employee-reported workplace quality is now measured across ten Southeast Asian countries, giving job seekers a regional benchmark. Candidates weighing offers can check whether a prospective employer appears on the list.
Further reading
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More information
Review the full Fortune Southeast Asia 2026 company list on the Great Place To Work Thailand site.
Source note: This article includes information reported by The Manila times.
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