Consulting & Staffing Europe January 2026
~480k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~85
Organizations
These insights represent ~480k questions answered from ~85 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
Management Consulting, Staffing & Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Services, Accounting, Market Research, Architecture & Planning, Professional Training & Coaching
Reported gender breakdown
Male
52%
Female
48%
Non-Binary
0.04%
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.
60% of Consulting and Staffing Europe employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 37% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 5 and is in the bottom 21% compared with the overall average.
How does Consulting and Staffing Europe compare?
On the lower side, people in Consulting & Staffing Europe had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Action, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Consulting & Staffing Europe are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, and Manufacturing Japan. People working in Consulting & Staffing Europe are less engaged than Media & Marketing (200-500), Europe > 5000, Financial Services DACH, and Construction United Kingdom.
The highest scoring question for Consulting & Staffing Europe had 89% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Consulting & Staffing Europe were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I believe that my total compensation is fair, relative to similar roles at %[Company]%' with 22% of people disagreeing (+3% 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 Consulting and Staffing Europe organizations.
1 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
3 %[Company]% is in a position to really succeed over the next three years | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 25% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+5% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 15% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+5% 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
16%
2 to less than 4 years
29%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
17%
Greater than 10 years
17%