#EmployeeExperienceAwards

Employee Experience Awards Key Dates

Celebrating Thailand’s Top Workplaces Through the Power of EX

After a highly acclaimed debut in 2024 and five successful years across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, the Employee Experience Awards (EXA) returns to Thailand for its third year. This premier awards programme honours organisations that are redefining what it means to create exceptional employee experiences.

Thailand’s HR landscape has been evolving rapidly, with a strong focus on employee well-being, purposeful leadership, and people-first strategies. In today’s competitive environment, employee experience has become a defining marker of organisational success – driving higher productivity, stronger customer satisfaction, and sustainable growth.

At its core, the Employee Experience Awards takes a holistic approach, recognising outstanding organisations across four key pillars:

1. Leadership

Celebrating leaders who shape culture, set a clear vision, and inspire their people to achieve greater success.

2. Learning

Honouring organisations that prioritise continuous growth, providing employees with opportunities to expand their skills and potential.

3. Engagement

Recognising companies that foster belonging, motivation, and commitment, resulting in a highly engaged and resilient workforce.

4. Talent Acquisition

Commending organisations that excel at attracting and retaining top talent aligned with their values and goals.

By showcasing excellence across these pillars, the Employee Experience Awards aims to inspire Thai companies to elevate their HR practices, champion employee well-being, and build workplace cultures where people thrive.

Join us in celebrating organisations that are shaping the future of work in Thailand – where employee experience isn’t just a strategy, but the heartbeat of business success.

This is your golden opportunity to showcase the initiatives and strategies that have transformed your organisation into a truly employee-centric workplace.

With 44 categories built around the four pillars of EX — leadership, learning, engagement, and talent acquisition — the Employee Experience Awards will spotlight the achievements that have strengthened strategic leadership development, advanced integrated learning, and elevated employee engagement across Thailand’s HR landscape.

Now is the time to be recognised for your EXcellence. Celebrate your success alongside peers who are redefining the future of work in Thailand. We wish you every success with your submissions!

Stay connected with us on social media for the latest updates as the awards unfold.

What’s new in 2026?

Best Transformative Flexible Work Strategy

Best Transformative Learning Strategy

You have until 19 January 2026 to complete and submit your entries.

Why Enter EXA 2026

Stay ahead of the talent war

Be top of mind for candidates and employees by showcasing your meaningful, personalised, user-friendly and digital EX.

Catalyse your employer branding efforts

Spread positivity and boost morale by putting your team’s work in the spotlight and winning at the Employee Experience Awards.

Better business outcomes and improved performance

Nurture an army of happy employees who are excited to do their best at work. Unleash their full potential and increase productivity.

Deliver stakeholder confidence

Whether it’s your employees, C-suite leaders or global management team, reaffirm your organisational excellence to your stakeholders.

Showcase your hard work and ensure your teams receive the recognition they deserve!

Submit your entries by 9 January 2026 – start your submissions today!

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Judging Criteria

Here are some guiding pointers that judges will be looking out for. Please ensure your entry answers the points below for the various sections along with the guiding pointers in the respective categories.

Business challenge

Strategy

Impact

Learning points

Panel of Judges

The Employee Experience Awards will be judged against the highest standards by an esteemed panel of senior HR experts and thought leaders. Carefully selected for their expertise, these industry leaders are committed to giving each entry the attention it deserves, identifying the finest HR teams and leaders who are transforming the world of work.

Interested in joining our panel of judges, or know someone who should? Contact Jean Wen at jeanwenc@humanresourcesonline.net.

2025 Panel of Judges

Theerisara Puangprakhon

CHRO

AssetWise

Somnimit Lakanapantip

Vice President – HR Digitalisation

Banpu

Wannapat Nithilertviwat

Human Resources Director

Bata Thailand

Tareep Leekulpitak

Head of People Management

BTS Group Holdings

2025 Panel of Judges

Don’t take our word for it. Hear what past award participants of HRO’s Awards have to say:

I want to share with you how much my colleagues and I have enjoyed the dinner at Shangri-la, it was very well organised! The band and DJ were fabulous, world class! Thanks to your team.

HAVI Freight Management

Thanks a lot and though we didn’t manage to bring back an award, it was an eye-opening experience! We’ll be sure to participate in more categories next year!

AstraZeneca

Many thanks for your kind support and please extend our appreciation to Human Resources Online team too. It is truly amazing.

Clermont

A big thank you to you and your team for an outstanding awards ceremony. The energy was wonderful and it was great to see so many people come together to celebrate this awards night.

Change Et Al.

It was a grand event and so nicely organised! Well done to you and your team!

CGS-CIMB

It is an enjoyable and fun-filled event where you get excited over the announcement of the winners of the awards.

Bank of Singapore

HR Excellence Awards is really professional and is the leading awards for the HR community.

Heineken Asia Pacific

It was a moment to take a pause and show our appreciation to those HR folks who added value to other human beings and to their business.

UTAC Group

Thanks for having me as a judge. I truly enjoyed reading the many submissions and noted the level of enthusiasm and involvement of the participants in building their company culture.

Paramount Corporation

Thank you for having me in your event. Not only was the dinner delicious, the whole evening was great. It was an enormous privilege that I be given the opportunity to be part of the panel judges.

Protasco

The pleasure to judge the entries was all mine. Thanks again for the wonderful opportunity and networking.

Segi Value Holdings

I think this is a very prestigious award and it is also a platform for us to share our best practices.

AXA Life Singapore

This year we are ready to share our practices and we’re very proud and excited to actually share what we have done.

SCOR Singapore

I think this is one of the most important at HR, to attract and retain talent. So that is why we want to project ourselves in the market and also to see where we are standing, compared to the leaders in the market.

DKSH

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