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Construction & Heavy Industry (500-1000) July 2025

  • ~0.9m

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~50

    Organizations

These insights represent ~0.9m questions answered from ~50 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, Machinery, Automotive, Oil & Energy, Renewables & Environment, Civil Engineering, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mining & Metals, Paper & Forest Products

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Oceania

    41%

  • Northern America

    40%

  • Europe

    16%

  • MEA

    2%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Male

    69%

  • Female

    31%

  • Non-Binary

    0.37%

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.

67% of Construction and Heavy Industry (500-1000) employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 40% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 6 and is in the bottom 9% compared with other industries.

How does Construction and Heavy Industry (500-1000) compare?

People in Construction & Heavy Industry (500-1000) were much more positive than average regarding Growth and Inclusion.


On the lower side, people in Construction & Heavy Industry (500-1000) had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Leadership.

People working in Construction & Heavy Industry (500-1000) are less engaged than Manufacturing, Technology, Science, Research, Food & Beverage, and Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering.

The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry (500-1000) 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 Inclusion.


People in Construction & Heavy Industry (500-1000) 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 21% 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 (500-1000) organizations.

1

The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success

Leadership
2

%[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals

Company Performance
3

I believe there are good career opportunities for me at %[Company]%

Learning & Development

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 21% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 10% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+0% 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

    4%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    8%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    16%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    22%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    10%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    14%

  • Greater than 10 years

    22%

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