Education APAC July 2025
~1m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~60
Organizations
These insights represent ~1m questions answered from ~60 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, Education Management, E-Learning, Primary/Secondary Education
Reported gender breakdown
Female
61%
Male
38%
Non-Binary
0.32%
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 APAC employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 44% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 8 and is in the bottom 28% compared with the overall average.
How does Education APAC compare?
People in Education APAC were much more positive than average regarding Growth.
On the lower side, people in Education APAC had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Action, and Voice.
People working in Education APAC are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Education APAC are less engaged than Food & Beverage North America, Management Consulting North America, Financial Services (200-500), and Africa (200-500).
The highest scoring question for Education APAC had 86% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Education APAC were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 18% of people disagreeing (+1% 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 APAC organizations.
1 %[Company]% really allows us to make a positive difference | Social Connection |
2 At %[Company]% we act on promising new or innovative ideas | Innovation |
3 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 24% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+4% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
4%
1 to less than 2 years
13%
2 to less than 4 years
22%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
19%
Greater than 10 years
27%