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Education 1000+ July 2025

  • ~1.9m

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~35

    Organizations

These insights represent ~1.9m questions answered from ~35 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 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, E-Learning, Education Management, Primary/Secondary Education

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Oceania

    36%

  • Europe

    29%

  • Northern America

    24%

  • Asia

    5%

  • MEA

    3%

  • Latin America

    3%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Female

    61%

  • Male

    38%

  • Non-Binary

    0.46%

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.

64% of Education 1000+ employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 30% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -1 and is in the bottom 2% 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, Company Performance, and Feedback & Recognition.

People working in Education 1000+ are less engaged than Logistics & Transport, Public Company, Nonprofit Organization Management, and Telecommunications.

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 31% of people disagreeing (+15% 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

We are encouraged to be innovative even though some of our initiatives may not succeed

Innovation
2

We hold ourselves and our team members accountable for results

Teamwork & Ownership
3

The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me

Leadership

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 26% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+6% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 12% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+2% 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

    13%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    21%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    11%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    17%

  • Greater than 10 years

    25%

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