Automotive & Machinery Europe January 2026
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.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Automotive, Machinery, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Plastics
Reported gender breakdown
Male
70%
Female
30%
Non-Binary
0.02%
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.
65% of Automotive and Machinery Europe employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 30% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -11 and is the lowest scoring group compared with the overall average.
How does Automotive and Machinery Europe compare?
On the lower side, people in Automotive & Machinery Europe had much lower favorable scores than average in Social Connection, Action, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Automotive & Machinery Europe are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Automotive & Machinery Europe are less engaged than New Tech Portugal, Internet Oceania, Eastern Europe (1000-5000), and Serbia.
The highest scoring question for Automotive & Machinery Europe had 87% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Automotive & Machinery Europe were generally least favourable about Social Connection, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 22% of people disagreeing (+5% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 21% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 11% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+1% 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
0.33%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
3%
1 to less than 2 years
10%
2 to less than 4 years
23%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
17%
Greater than 10 years
33%