SEVERAL Philippine companies secured places in TIME magazine’s inaugural Asia-Pacific Best Employers 2027 ranking, joining 500 businesses across the region recognized for employee satisfaction and workplace reputation.
Leading the Philippine contingent was United Laboratories (Unilab), which ranked 24th with a score of 89.15 out of 100, followed by Ayala Corp. at 32nd with 88.07.
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) placed 44th with 86.89, while San Miguel Corp. ranked 55th with a score of 85.82, according to the list released by TIME and global data firm Statista on Wednesday.
Other Philippine companies included Jollibee Foods Corp. at 89th, Del Monte Philippines at 105th, BDO Unibank at 164th, Philippine Airlines at 186th, AboitizPower at 196th and SM Investments Corp. at 206th.
The ranking also recognized Solaire Resort & Casino, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., JG Summit Holdings, Century Pacific Group, RealPage Philippines, Megaworld, PLDT, and ABS-CBN.
American semiconductor equipment maker KLA topped the regional ranking with a perfect score of 100, followed by JPMorgan Chase in second place and Australian design company Canva in third.
Microsoft ranked fourth, followed by Sony Corp. in fifth, and Toymaker LEGO placed sixth, while Toyota Group ranked seventh and video game company Nintendo came in eighth.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, took ninth place, while financial technology firm Wise completed the top 10.
The Asia-Pacific ranking covered 500 companies selected from an initial pool of more than 7,000 businesses with significant operations in the region.
TIME and Statista based the assessment on surveys involving more than 80,000 employees across Asia-Pacific, conducted from 2024 to 2026.
The methodology considered employees’ willingness to recommend their current or former employers, as well as their perceptions of other companies within their respective industries.
Unlike corporate rankings based on revenue, profitability or market capitalization, the assessment focused on workplace reputation and employee recommendations.
The ranking comes as companies across Asia-Pacific face changing workforce expectations and growing pressure to adapt to technological developments, particularly artificial intelligence.
An October report by the International Monetary Fund cited by TIME found that employer demand in the region had declined by nearly 10 percent in occupations more exposed to artificial intelligence, such as coding, relative to less-exposed occupations since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022.
