Chemicals January 2026
~1.1m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~25
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.1m questions answered from ~25 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
Chemicals
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
52%
Europe
19%
Latin America
11%
Oceania
9%
Asia
6%
MEA
2%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
72%
Female
28%
Non-Binary
0.01%
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.
69% of Chemicals employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 50% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 14 and is in the bottom 35% compared with other industries.
How does Chemicals compare?
On the lower side, people in Chemicals had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Chemicals are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Chemicals are less engaged than Construction, Biotechnology, Renewables & Environment, and Financial Services.
The highest scoring question for Chemicals had 88% 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 Chemicals 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 27% of people disagreeing (+10% 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 Chemicals organizations.
1 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
2 I am given opportunities to develop skills relevant to my interests | Learning & Development |
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, 17% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 9% 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
0.9%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
11%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
27%