Locais de trabalho mais felizes®
Ao redor do mundo
2026
Happy Workplaces® analyzes 236 workplace rankings and 18,325 companies across 23 countries to identify 1,020 Happiest Workplaces by country and industry.
Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe 2026 is one of the most comprehensive global studies of workplace happiness published to date. The 1,020 workplaces featured in the list were selected by evaluating 18,325 companies included in 236 workplace rankings across 23 countries through meta-analysis, the Wellbeing Index, and HR Check, and were classified by country and industry.
The report also presents the results of a study conducted with senior HR executives. Companies included in and outside the HPW list were compared in terms of their 2026 priorities, the main challenges they faced in 2025, and the strategies they used to strengthen employee happiness. Employee experience, leadership development, continuous learning, well-being, flexible working, and a culture of recognition are among the prominent themes.
The third section of the report compares the 2010–2026 stock returns of companies included in the Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe list and traded in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Canada with the relevant national benchmark indices. HPW companies generated higher cumulative returns in all five economies, while the return gap in the United States exceeded 92%.
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One of the most comprehensive global studies of workplace happiness prepared to date, covering 23 countries.
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Happiest Workplaces
702 unique Happiest Workplaces identified through 1,063 country-based recognitions following the analysis of 18,325 companies.
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HPW companies analyzed in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France delivered an average cumulative outperformance of 92% compared with national benchmark indices.
Happiest Workplaces® Around the Globe 2026
The report examines 702 unique Happiest Workplaces identified from the analysis of 18,325 companies across 23 countries, representing a total of 1,063 country-based recognitions. It presents country- and industry-level findings and summarizes the companies’ priorities, employee happiness strategies, and financial performance on a section-by-section basis.
Capítulo 1: Introduction and Key Findings
Capítulo 2: Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe
Capítulo 3: Boosting Stocks with a Smile
Capítulo 4: Strategies of the Happiest Workplaces
Capítulo 5: About Us
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About Us
This section provides information about Happy Place to Work®’s mission, consulting model, employee experience assessment approach, and certification process. Organizations seeking to become one of the World's Happiest Workplaces and to measure and improve their current position in employee happiness can learn about the core components of the model and the stages of the certification process here.
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Strategies of the Happiest Workplaces
This section compares companies included in the HPW list with companies outside the list, based on a study conducted with senior HR executives. Employee experience, leadership development, employee learning and development, and digital transformation emerged among the key priorities for 2026, while employee engagement, talent acquisition and retention, compensation design, career management, and the integration of digital HR technologies were examined as major challenges faced in 2025. The section also evaluates the role of professional development, flexible working, well-being programs, benefits, compensation policies, diversity, equity and inclusion practices, employee voice, and recognition and reward systems in employee happiness, revealing the practices through which the Happiest Workplaces distinguish themselves from other companies.
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Boosting Stocks with a Smile
This section examines the financial performance of publicly traded companies included in the Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe list. The 2010–2026 stock returns of HPW companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Canada were compared with the relevant national benchmark indices. HPW companies outperformed the benchmark indices in all five economies, with average cumulative outperformance reported at 92%. Although the findings point to a strong relationship between employee happiness and financial performance, they do not independently establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship.
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Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe
This section presents country- and industry-based lists of companies identified as the happiest workplaces in their respective sectors across 23 countries. The lists were developed with sector-specific conditions in mind; rather than being placed in a definitive happiness ranking against one another, companies were evaluated as leading workplaces within their own industries. A total of 18,325 companies featured in 236 workplace rankings were analyzed, and 702 unique companies were selected through 1,063 country-based listings. The meta-analysis method, company scoring approach, and ranking criteria are explained in detail in the report. The Country-Based Lists present sector leaders in each country, while the Industry Leaders section brings companies together by sector on a global scale.
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Introduction and Key Findings
The Introduction section of the Happiest Workplaces Around the Globe 2026 report presents the study’s key findings and its conceptual framework for employee happiness. The findings show that a human-centered employee experience has become a strategic differentiator beyond compensation, leadership development and continuous learning ecosystems have grown stronger, well-being has become a core element of work design rather than an employee benefit, and emotional connection plays a decisive role in employee retention. Under Understanding Employee Happiness, happiness is examined through how employees feel during work, with meaning, achievement, recognition, trust, and belonging highlighted as the core components of sustainable employee happiness.
Locais de trabalho felizes® em todo o mundo
A lista The Happiest Workplaces® Around the Globe destaca as empresas líderes em felicidade dos funcionários em seu setor em cada país.
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foram analisadas empresas de 23 países, com 964 locais de trabalho incluídos na lista.
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