Building Materials July 2026
~550k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~25
Organizations
These insights represent ~550k questions answered from ~25 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Building Materials
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Oceania
42%
Northern America
41%
Europe
7%
Asia
6%
Latin America
3%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
77%
Female
23%
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.
70% of Building Materials employees are engaged
This is in the top 47% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 13 and is in the bottom 27% compared with other industries.
How does Building Materials compare?
On the lower side, people in Building Materials had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Collaboration & Communication, and Leadership.
People working in Building Materials are more engaged than Local Councils AU & NZ, Local Councils Australia, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Building Materials are less engaged than Legal Services, Renewables & Environment, Civil Engineering, and Investment Management.
The highest scoring question for Building Materials had 88% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Building Materials were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies' with 23% of people disagreeing (+0% 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 Building Materials organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
2 Other departments at %[Company]% collaborate well with us to get the job done | Collaboration & Communication |
3 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+0% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 8% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-2% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
13%
2 to less than 4 years
20%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
28%
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