Construction & Heavy Industry Europe July 2025
~800k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~95
Organizations
These insights represent ~800k questions answered from ~95 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
Oil & Energy, Renewables & Environment, Automotive, Construction, Utilities, Building Materials, Machinery, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Environmental Services, Civil Engineering
Reported gender breakdown
Male
69%
Female
30%
Non-Binary
0.05%
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.
66% of Construction and Heavy Industry Europe employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 39% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 1 and is in the bottom 14% compared with the overall average.
How does Construction and Heavy Industry Europe compare?
People in Construction & Heavy Industry Europe were much more positive than average regarding Growth.
On the lower side, people in Construction & Heavy Industry Europe had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Action, and Wellbeing Culture.
People working in Construction & Heavy Industry Europe are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry Europe are less engaged than Biotechnology & Medical Devices APAC, Egypt, New Zealand (100-200), and Entertainment & Recreation Australia.
The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry Europe had 87% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Construction & Heavy Industry Europe were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 18% of people disagreeing (+4% 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 Europe organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 %[Company]% really allows us to make a positive difference | Social Connection |
3 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
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, 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
23%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
25%