Construction & Heavy Industry DACH January 2026
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
Utilities, Automotive, Renewables & Environment, Construction, Environmental Services, Oil & Energy, Building Materials, Industrial Automation, Machinery, Mining & Metals
Reported gender breakdown
Male
76%
Female
24%
Non-Binary
0.03%
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.
58% of Construction and Heavy Industry DACH employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 18% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -5 and is in the bottom 5% compared with the overall average.
How does Construction and Heavy Industry DACH compare?
On the lower side, people in Construction & Heavy Industry DACH had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Leadership.
People working in Construction & Heavy Industry DACH are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom and Creative & Media Central Europe. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry DACH are less engaged than Nordic > 5000, Switzerland (1000-5000), New Tech Nordic, and Japan.
The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry DACH 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 DACH were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'Generally, the right people are rewarded and recognized at %[Company]%' with 28% of people disagreeing (+16% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 27% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+7% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 14% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+4% 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
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
4%
1 to less than 2 years
11%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
15%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
25%