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Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) July 2026

  • ~360k

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~75

    Organizations

These insights represent ~360k questions answered from ~75 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.

To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.

Data provided by Culture Amp

Most represented industries in this benchmark

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

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Oceania

    43%

  • Northern America

    40%

  • Europe

    15%

  • Asia

    2%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Male

    66%

  • Female

    34%

  • Non-Binary

    0.07%

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.

73% of Construction and Heavy Industry (100-200) employees are engaged

This is in the top 42% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 23 and is in the top 18% 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 Growth.


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

People working in Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) are more engaged than Local Councils AU & NZ, Local Councils Australia, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) are less engaged than Health & Wellness and Engaging Growth.

The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) had 91% 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 Construction & Heavy Industry (100-200) were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 14% of people disagreeing (+0% above average).

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 17% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-2% 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

    6%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    10%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    18%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    27%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    11%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    11%

  • Greater than 10 years

    13%

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