Education January 2026
~3.5m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~200
Organizations
These insights represent ~3.5m questions answered from ~200 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
Higher Education, Education Management, E-Learning, Primary/Secondary Education
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Oceania
36%
Northern America
33%
Europe
24%
Asia
3%
MEA
2%
Latin America
2%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
63%
Male
37%
Non-Binary
0.41%
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.
68% of Education employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 43% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 8 and is in the bottom 10% compared with other industries.
How does Education compare?
People in Education were much more positive than average regarding Diversity.
On the lower side, people in Education had much lower favorable scores than average in Overall Industries (Global) Wellbeing, Decision Making, and Action.
People working in Education are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Education are less engaged than Oil & Energy, Tech: Manufacturing & Research, Professional Services, and Hospital & Health Care.
The highest scoring question for Education had 95% of people agreeing that The work that they do at %[Company]% is important (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Education were generally least favourable about Decision Making, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 19% of people disagreeing (+2% 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 Education organizations.
1 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
2 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+3% 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
3%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
7%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
23%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
16%
Greater than 10 years
23%