GLOBIS Ranks 6th in GPTW 100 Best Workplaces in Japan 2025 Rankings, Marking 12 Consecutive Years on the List

February 27, 2025

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Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo—GLOBIS Corporation was ranked 6th out of 657 participating companies in the medium-sized company category of the 2025 edition of “100 Best Workplaces in Japan”, a ranking by Great Place to Work® Institute Japan (GPTW Japan). This is the 12th consecutive year that GLOBIS has been selected for the Best Workplaces Award.

Visit the full rankings here (Japanese only).
GLOBIS: Medium-sized category (100-999 employees) 6th place

GPTW Japan evaluates survey results and certifies companies that meet its standards as “Great Places to Work.” The assessment includes employee and company surveys on workplace conditions and policies, recognizing organizations that are both supportive and fulfilling. The top 100 certified companies with the highest job satisfaction are presented as the “100 Best Workplaces in Japan.” GLOBIS ranked among the Best 100 in the medium-sized category for the 12th consecutive year, recognized for its societal contributions, skill development opportunities, and work-life balance—key factors in job satisfaction.

GLOBIS ensures a positive working environment for their employees through the GLOBIS Way, which outlines GLOBIS’s corporate philosophy, including its vision and mission, as well as its action guidelines. It promotes alignment with the company’s core values to foster collaboration and growth towards a shared corporate culture.

In addition, GLOBIS has been emphasizing the importance of a diverse workforce as part of its constitution, manifested in its “Diversity Way”. The company currently employs 68 international staff from 25 countries and has overseas subsidiaries in six locations: Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, Shanghai, San Francisco, and Brussels.

GLOBIS continues its efforts to create an environment where Japanese and global staff can engage seamlessly, to create a flexible organization that emphasizes uniqueness, inspires creativity and innovation, and allows its members to shine.

More information on GLOBIS’s company culture, work environment and recruitment can be found on the GLOBIS recruitment website.

GLOBIS has been in the Top 10 of the ranking for the last three years, and has been featured on GPTW’s website as a case study multiple times before.

In 2020, GLOBIS was featured as a case study (Japanese only) on establishing the “Work Style Way” and finding purpose in work during COVID-19. GPTW’s book “How to Create a Workplace Where People Want to Work” (Japanese only), features GLOBIS Founder & President Yoshito Hori. GLOBIS representatives also participated in GPTW-hosted lectures on building strong organizations and desirable workplaces.

The GLOBIS Work Style Way is a part of the GLOBIS Way, fostering a corporate culture and community that emphasizes relationship building through face-to-face interaction and flexibility through a technology-enhanced work style.

This includes a hybrid work style with three in-office days per week, monthly team-building activities, and annual company-wide retreats where members from various departments can exchange ideas and strengthen relationships.

About Great Place to Work® Institute Japan

The Great Place to Work® Institute is a global organization that researches and analyzes workplace satisfaction, publishing “Best Workplaces” rankings in approximately 100 countries. In the United States, these rankings have been featured in Fortune magazine since 1998. In Japan, the Great Place to Work® Institute Japan operates under license to conduct these evaluations.

About GLOBIS

Since its foundation in 1992, GLOBIS has fostered a vision to create and innovate societies by fostering management ecosystems of people, capital, and knowledge. Today, the company is involved in a range of activities, from higher education and corporate training to venture capital. GLOBIS also operates the G1 Institute and the KIBOW Foundation, both non-profit organizations to promote creativity and innovation in society. The GLOBIS MBA and corporate training programs are offered both online and in person across Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, the USA, Belgium, and the Philippines. GLOBIS University is the proud home of Japan’s largest MBA and is rapidly growing to claim this title for all of Asia.