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Education 1000+ July 2026

  • ~2m

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~40

    Organizations

These insights represent ~2m questions answered from ~40 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.

The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry.

Data provided by Culture Amp

Most represented industries in this benchmark

Higher Education, E-Learning, Education Management, Primary/Secondary Education

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Oceania

    44%

  • Northern America

    32%

  • Europe

    18%

  • Asia

    2%

  • MEA

    2%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Female

    64%

  • Male

    36%

  • 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.

66% of Education 1000+ employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 34% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -1 and is the lowest scoring group compared with other industries.

How does Education 1000+ compare?

On the lower side, people in Education 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Voice.

People working in Education 1000+ are less engaged than Pharmaceuticals, Civic & Social Organization, Nonprofit Organization Management, and Non Profits.

The highest scoring question for Education 1000+ had 87% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.


People in Education 1000+ 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 27% of people disagreeing (+10% 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 1000+ organizations.

1

%[Company]%'s commitment to social responsibility (e.g. community support, sustainability, etc.) is genuine

Social Connection
2

%[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals

Company Performance
3

The information I need to do my job effectively is readily available

Remote Work Enablement and environment

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 26% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+7% 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

    3%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    6%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    12%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    22%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    11%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    17%

  • Greater than 10 years

    26%

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