Construction & Heavy Industry Canada 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
Construction, Oil & Energy, Utilities, Automotive, Renewables & Environment, Building Materials, Mining & Metals, Civil Engineering, Environmental Services, Industrial Automation
Reported gender breakdown
Male
65%
Female
35%
Non-Binary
0.33%
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.
75% of Construction and Heavy Industry Canada employees are engaged
This is in the top 41% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 26 and is in the top 13% compared with the overall average.
How does Construction and Heavy Industry Canada compare?
People in Construction & Heavy Industry Canada were much more positive than average regarding Company Performance, Engagement, and Growth.
People working in Construction & Heavy Industry Canada are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry Canada are less engaged than Mexico (1000-5000), Mexico 1000+, Finance Latin America, and Consulting & Staffing Asia.
The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry Canada had 91% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Inclusion.
People in Construction & Heavy Industry Canada 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 14% of people disagreeing (+0% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 15% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-5% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 7% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-3% 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
14%
2 to less than 4 years
20%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
29%