Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom January 2026
~670k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~80
Organizations
These insights represent ~670k questions answered from ~80 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 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, Construction, Renewables & Environment, Utilities, Automotive, Building Materials, Environmental Services, Civil Engineering, Machinery, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Reported gender breakdown
Male
66%
Female
34%
Non-Binary
0.14%
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.
63% of Construction and Heavy Industry United Kingdom employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 35% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 8 and is in the bottom 30% compared with the overall average.
How does Construction and Heavy Industry United Kingdom compare?
People in Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom were much more positive than average regarding Growth.
On the lower side, people in Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Action, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom are less engaged than Education APAC, Banking APAC, Civic & Social Organization (0-100), and Nonprofit Organization Management (200-500).
The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom had 87% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Diversity.
People in Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 23% of people disagreeing (+6% 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 United Kingdom organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 22% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 12% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+2% 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
1%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
16%
Greater than 10 years
22%