The World’s Happiest Workplaces Awards, powered by WorkL, is the world’s largest program celebrating happy workplaces – as chosen by their employees.

Each January, the happiest organisations are recognised with these awards for their commitment to promoting a happy and positive work environment on the World’s Happiest Workplaces List.

World’s Happiest Award Winners for 2026 Announced!

More than 1 million of employees nominated over 120,000 organisations in our World’s Happiest Workplace Awards for 2026. We’re thrilled to announce the 2026 winners showcasing the organisations which have been ranked by their employees as the happiest workplaces among the top in their industry for each country.

Category Award winners:

Workplaces with the highest diversity and inclusion scores, across gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability.

Workplaces with the highest wellbeing scores.

Workplaces with the highest workplaces happiness scores for women.

Workplaces with the most engaged employees.

Workplaces with the highest workplace scores for management.

Workplaces with the highest workplace happiness scores for career development.

Workplaces with the highest workplace happiness scores for disabled employees.

Workplaces with the highest workplace happiness scores for ages 19-24.

Workplaces with the highest workplace happiness scores for age 55+.

Workplaces with the highest workplace happiness scores for LGBTQ+ employees.

Industry Award winners:

Award winners by Country:

Recognised as a World's Happiest Workplace?

Has your organisation been recognised as one of the World’s Happiest Workplaces 2026? Congratulations.

You can now begin promoting your achievement by downloading your winning logo and certificate. Displaying your achievement can help you attract, recruit and retain employees. 

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Winning Rosettes

All winning organisations are identifiable by a rosette on the World’s Happiest Workplaces List.

  • Green Rosette: All organisations with Workplace Happiness score above 70%.
  • Gold Rosette: All organisations who are recognised as a Top 100 in a category.

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World's Happiest Workplaces FAQs

The World’s Happiest Workplaces List is the largest global database on workplace happiness with over 100,000 organisations from 50+ countries. Organisations are entered and ranked on the list based on their employees’ happiness scores when completing their Happy At Work Test by WorkL. An organisation can qualify as a World Happiest Workplace only if they score above 70%.

 

An organisation can enter the World’s Happiest Workplaces List when their employees take the free and anonymous Happy At Work Test by WorkL.

The World’s Happiest Workplace Awards are announced every January and include a list of all the organisations which are going above and beyond to provide a great experience for their employees.

The next World’s Happiest Workplaces Awards will be announced on Tuesday the 14th of January 2026. To enter the awards, all you need to do is take the Happy At Work Test and add the name of your organisation. If your organisation scores more than 70%, it will automatically qualify as a World’s Happiest Workplace and will be chosen as a potential award winner after comparing to other organisations in your industry and country.

Couldn’t find what you’re looking for? Please contact us at happiestworkplaces@workl.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

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