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Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) July 2025

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

Renewables & Environment, Construction, Utilities, Building Materials, Civil Engineering, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Oil & Energy, Environmental Services, Machinery, Mining & Metals

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Oceania

    46%

  • Northern America

    29%

  • Europe

    17%

  • Asia

    8%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Male

    64%

  • Female

    36%

  • Non-Binary

    0.2%

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.

72% of Construction and Heavy Industry (100-200) employees are engaged

This is in the top 41% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 16 and is in the bottom 46% compared with other industries.

How does Construction and Heavy Industry (100-200) compare?

People in Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection, Inclusion, and Growth.


On the lower side, people in Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) had much lower favorable scores than average in Learning & Development and Teamwork & Ownership.

People working in Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) are less engaged than Engaging Growth.

The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) had 89% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Growth.


People in Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) 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 18% of people disagreeing (+2% above average).

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 16% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-4% 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

    3%

  • 3 months to 6 months

    5%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    11%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    20%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    28%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    10%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    13%

  • Greater than 10 years

    10%

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