Creative & Media Western Europe July 2026
~195k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~45
Organizations
These insights represent ~195k questions answered from ~45 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.
To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Marketing & Advertising, Publishing, Broadcast Media, Public Relations & Communications, Online Media, Music, Newspapers
Reported gender breakdown
Male
50%
Female
50%
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.
60% of Creative and Media Western Europe employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 33% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -6 and is in the bottom 5% compared with the overall average.
How does Creative and Media Western Europe compare?
On the lower side, people in Creative & Media Western Europe had much lower favorable scores than average in Feedback & Recognition, Action, and Social Connection.
People working in Creative & Media Western Europe are more engaged than Management Consulting United Kingdom, Management Consulting Europe, and Information Technology & Services Germany. People working in Creative & Media Western Europe are less engaged than United Kingdom > 5000, Machinery Europe, Finance Benelux, and Denmark 1000+.
The highest scoring question for Creative & Media Western Europe had 84% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (-3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Creative & Media Western Europe were generally least favourable about Feedback & Recognition, and were most negative towards 'I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies' with 39% of people disagreeing (+16% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 29% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+10% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 16% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+6% 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
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
23%
4 to less than 6 years
17%
6 to less than 10 years
17%
Greater than 10 years
16%