Construction & Heavy Industry 1000+ July 2025
~7.5m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~90
Organizations
These insights represent ~7.5m questions answered from ~90 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 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
Utilities, Construction, Automotive, Oil & Energy, Building Materials, Civil Engineering, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mining & Metals, Renewables & Environment, Machinery
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Oceania
48%
Northern America
32%
Europe
10%
Asia
4%
MEA
4%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
66%
Female
34%
Non-Binary
0.32%
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.
71% of Construction and Heavy Industry 1000+ employees are engaged
This is in the top 44% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 17 and is in the top 47% compared with other industries.
How does Construction and Heavy Industry 1000+ compare?
People in Construction & Heavy Industry 1000+ were much more positive than average regarding Growth.
On the lower side, people in Construction & Heavy Industry 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Collaboration & Communication.
People working in Construction & Heavy Industry 1000+ are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry 1000+ are less engaged than Accounting, Computer & Network Security, Investment Management, and Legal Services.
The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry 1000+ 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 Construction & Heavy Industry 1000+ were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 19% of people disagreeing (+5% 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 Construction and Heavy Industry 1000+ organizations.
1 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
2 %[Company]% really allows us to make a positive difference | Social Connection |
3 The products and services %[Company]% provides are as good as, or better than, our main competitors | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-1% 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
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
17%
2 to less than 4 years
25%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
21%