Construction & Heavy Industry Benelux 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
Machinery, Oil & Energy, Automotive, Renewables & Environment, Utilities, Environmental Services, Industrial Automation, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Reported gender breakdown
Male
74%
Female
26%
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.
61% of Construction and Heavy Industry Benelux employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 28% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -7 and is in the bottom 3% compared with the overall average.
How does Construction and Heavy Industry Benelux compare?
On the lower side, people in Construction & Heavy Industry Benelux had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Service & Quality Focus, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Construction & Heavy Industry Benelux are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry Benelux are less engaged than Hospitality United Kingdom, Apparel & Fashion Europe, Ireland, and New Zealand > 5000.
The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry Benelux had 86% 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 Benelux were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards '%[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals' with 23% of people disagreeing (+10% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 11% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
7%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
22%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
26%