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Legal (Female) 2021

The legal and business services benchmark is primarily representative of legal and accounting firms and smaller, boutique business services firms. The people tend to be predominantly business professionals and lawyers.

  • Emerging

    Benchmark status

We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.

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Industry breakdown

  • Law Practice

    59%

  • Legal Services

    41%

Region breakdown

  • Oceania

    39%

  • North America

    30%

  • Europe

    28%

  • Asia

    2%

  • MEA

    1%

Are employees committed to their organizations?

Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.

73% of Legal (Female) employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 43% compared with the overall average.


The average eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 26 and is in the top 46% compared with the overall average.

Understanding the engagement questions

Engagement is defined through these five industry-standard questions from Culture Amp’s engagement survey template.

I am proud to work for [Company]

90%

3% above global average

I would recommend [Company] as a great place to work

85%

1% above global average

I see myself still working at [Company] in two years' time

66%

1% below global average

I rarely think about looking for a job at another company

57%

2% below global average

[Company] motivates me to go beyond what I would in a similar role elsewhere

65%

6% below global average

The highest scoring question for Legal Female had 90% of people agreeing that they are proud to work for [company] (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.


People in Legal Female were generally least favourable about Innovation, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 25% of people disagreeing (+9% above average).

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 20% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 12% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+2% compared to overall).

The following questions had the biggest impact on whether individuals felt that they were planning to stay at their organization and not actively looking for alternative jobs.

Average Glassdoor ratings

We’ve connected the employee feedback data for each company included in the benchmark with ratings from Glassdoor.com, which is one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites combined with a growing database of company reviews, CEO approval ratings and more.

Overall Rating

3.8 stars (+0)

Culture and Values

4.1 stars (+0.2)

Work Life Balance

3.6 stars (-0.2)

Compensation and Benefits

3.7 stars (+0.1)

Career Opportunities

3.5 stars (+0)

Recommend to Friend

77.0% (+6)

CEO Approval

97.0% (+13)

How does Legal (Female) compare?

Organizations in Legal Female tend to be very similar to the global all industries insights, with no significant departures from the average.

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