JobPlanet, a career platform operated by AI and data-based HR tech platform Worksphere, said on March 10 it held the 2026 JobPlanet Awards and announced 31 companies as the top 0.01 percent best workplaces.

JobPlanet has announced best companies to work for each year. Since last year, it has introduced the JobPlanet Awards, aiming to provide reliable indicators job seekers can use, similar to a dining guide such as the Michelin Guide, rather than simply publishing rankings.

This year’s awards selected 31 companies, representing the top 0.01 percent among 470,000 companies nationwide, based on category ratings data accumulated over 2025. Award categories expanded from a single category to 4, reflecting key criteria for job seekers: pay and benefits, work-life balance, career growth and recruitment experience.

The selected companies by category are as follows.

In the pay and benefits category, the list included SK Telecom, GlaxoSmithKline, Naver Cloud, Applied Materials Korea, Weverse Company, Electronic Arts Korea, Herbalife Korea and Hyundai Mobis. In the work-life balance category, it included AXA General Insurance, SAP Korea, Google Korea, Neogenesis, Dain Precision, Korea Gas Pipeline Corporation, Vieworks and Jatco Korea Engineering.

In the career growth category, it included Nexon Korea, Daehong Communications, NCSoft, OE Solutions, Socar, Tokyo Electron Korea, Philip Morris Korea and Mettler-Toledo Korea. In the recruitment experience category, it included Naver Webtoon, Dotmill, Daehaknaeil, Linde Korea, SpaceV, Electronic Arts Korea and Jatco Korea Engineering.

Companies selected for the awards receive the Planet Button certification mark, guaranteed by JobPlanet.

A JobPlanet official said the JobPlanet Awards, now in its 10th year, has established itself as a standard trusted by both job seekers and companies beyond any quantitative advantage in data. The official said it will provide job seekers with personalised career guides and provide companies with branding tools based on the quantitative indicator of “actual employee reviews” to build a healthy recruitment ecosystem.