Architecture & Planning January 2026
~390k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~30
Organizations
These insights represent ~390k questions answered from ~30 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Architecture & Planning
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
29%
Europe
27%
Oceania
24%
Asia
16%
MEA
4%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
58%
Female
42%
Non-Binary
0.11%
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.
71% of Architecture and Planning employees are engaged
This is in the top 45% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 20 and is in the top 28% compared with other industries.
How does Architecture and Planning compare?
People in Architecture & Planning were much more positive than average regarding Inclusion.
On the lower side, people in Architecture & Planning had much lower favorable scores than average in Action and Management.
People working in Architecture & Planning are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Architecture & Planning are less engaged than Civil Engineering, Investment Management, Legal Services, and Venture Capital & Private Equity.
The highest scoring question for Architecture & Planning had 88% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.
People in Architecture & Planning were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 19% of people disagreeing (+2% above average).
Which questions matter the most?
Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in Architecture and Planning organizations.
1 The products and services %[Company]% provides are as good as, or better than, our main competitors | Company Performance |
2 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 10% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+0% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
0.67%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
7%
1 to less than 2 years
13%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
17%
Greater than 10 years
21%