Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom 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
Oil & Energy, Construction, Automotive, Building Materials, Renewables & Environment, Utilities, Civil Engineering, Machinery, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Reported gender breakdown
Male
68%
Female
32%
Non-Binary
0.08%
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.
65% of Construction and Heavy Industry United Kingdom employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 37% 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 Action, Equity, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom are less engaged than Food & Beverage APAC, United States > 5000, New Tech Singapore, and Utilities.
The highest scoring question for Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom 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 Growth.
People in Construction & Heavy Industry United Kingdom were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 26% of people disagreeing (+9% above average).
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
8%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
24%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
22%