Engaging Growth July 2026
~7m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~600
Organizations
These insights represent ~7m questions answered from ~600 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
Computer Software, Financial Services, Nonprofit Organization Management, Hospital & Health Care, Information Technology & Services, Construction, Internet, Marketing & Advertising, Real Estate, Computer & Network Security
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
52%
Europe
12%
Oceania
10%
MEA
10%
Latin America
9%
Asia
7%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
61%
Female
39%
Non-Binary
0.07%
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.
82% of Engaging Growth employees are engaged
This is in the top 19% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 41 and is the highest scoring group compared with other industries.
How does Engaging Growth compare?
People in Engaging Growth were much more positive than average regarding Decision Making, Action, and Work Pressure.
On the lower side, people in Engaging Growth had much lower favorable scores than average in Transparency.
People working in Engaging Growth are more engaged than Local Councils AU & NZ, Local Councils Australia, Higher Education, and Government Administration.
The highest scoring question for Engaging Growth had 94% of people agreeing that they understand how their work contributes to %[Company]%'s mission (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Engaging Growth were generally least favourable about Decision Making, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 8% of people disagreeing (-6% below 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 Engaging Growth organizations.
1 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
2 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 11% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-8% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 5% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-5% 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
5%
3 months to 6 months
7%
6 months to less than 1 year
13%
1 to less than 2 years
18%
2 to less than 4 years
22%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
10%
Greater than 10 years
13%