Sunway Group Earns Global Recognition for Workplace Culture

Sunway Group has earned the Great Place To Work Certification™ for the second consecutive year, with 93% of staff surveyed saying Sunway is a great place to work, compared with 78% in 2025.

The latest results also show an improvement in staff early experience with the Group. In 2026, 97% of staff surveyed said they felt welcome when they joined Sunway, up from 86% last year.

The certification covers Sunway’s diverse workforce of more than 20,000 employees across 13 business divisions, spanning healthcare, education, real estate, retail, hospitality and theme parks, among others. The results reflect how people in vastly diverse roles, from theme park ambassadors and project engineers to neurosurgeons and professors, experience working at Sunway.

Sunway Group Chief Human Resources Officer Clayton Tan said: “This certification means a great deal to us because it reflects what our own people say about working at Sunway, not what we say about ourselves.

It shows the progress we’ve made in strengthening our workplace culture over the years. We are encouraged by the improvement, but we see this as a checkpoint and will continue working to ensure all in the Sunway family feel supported and valued.”

Great Place To Work® (GPTW) is a global authority on workplace culture, drawing on decades of employee feedback from organisations of every size and industry. This feedback is collected through its confidential Trust Index™ employee survey, an assessment that measures trust, pride and camaraderie at work using a consistent global framework.

Unlike employer recognitions decided by judging panels, GPTW Certification™ is determined by employees’ confidential feedback about their workplace experience. Employees respond to 60 standardised, research-backed statements, while participating organisations must meet GPTW’s survey validity requirements.

To earn the certification, an organisation must achieve an overall Trust Index™ score of at least 65%. The certification is valid for 12 months, requiring organisations to undergo the assessment again to be recertified.

GPTW recently published a dedicated case study examining Sunway Group’s workplace culture, making Sunway the only Malaysian company to be featured in a dedicated case study on the GPTW Malaysia website.

The case study found that the top-scoring Trust Index™ statement was “I’m proud to tell others I work here,” with 86% of employees in agreement.

The case study also highlighted the decline in Sunway’s overall staff turnover rate, from 23.69% in 2022 to 13.98% in 2025, alongside a workforce composition that nears a 50:50 gender balance and mirrors Malaysia’s own ethnic diversity with strong representation through to board and senior leadership levels.

These outcomes trace back to a philosophy that has guided Sunway for more than five decades: doing well by doing good. The belief that commercial success and social impact go hand in hand shapes how the Group supports the wellbeing, development and growth of its people.

Initiatives include the Sunway Little Sunshine Childcare Centre, which has supported working parents since 2018, an Employee Assistance Programme offering free and confidential mental health counselling, alongside flexible working arrangements, as well as educational programmes promoting health and wellbeing. In addition, Kelab Sosial Sunway, the Group’s social club, brings all staff together across its business divisions through sports, community service and wellness activities.

The certification adds to a broader body of recognition Sunway has received as an employer, including the Life At Work Awards in 2024 and 2025, and the Gold Award for Employer of the Year at the HR Excellence Awards 2023. At the Talentbank Graduates’ Choice Awards 2024, Sunway was recognised as a Top 1% Leading Employer in Malaysia and marked its fifth consecutive year as an award winner.

In 2021, Sunway was also the only local private-sector company ranked among Randstad Malaysia’s Top 10 Most Attractive Employers.

For Sunway, the Great Place To Work Certification™ represents an independent validation of a positive workplace culture the Group has built over more than five decades, one that continues to evolve alongside its people.

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