Financial Services DACH January 2026
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Financial Services
Reported gender breakdown
Male
61%
Female
39%
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.
65% of Financial Services DACH employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 43% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 0 and is in the bottom 12% compared with the overall average.
How does Financial Services DACH compare?
People in Financial Services DACH were much more positive than average regarding Innovation.
On the lower side, people in Financial Services DACH had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Service & Quality Focus, and Collaboration & Communication.
People working in Financial Services DACH are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Financial Services DACH are less engaged than Food & Beverage 1000+, Public Company, Australia, and Leisure, Travel & Tourism Europe.
The highest scoring question for Financial Services DACH had 89% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Financial Services DACH were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 19% of people disagreeing (+5% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 22% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 10% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+0% 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
4%
3 months to 6 months
9%
6 months to less than 1 year
12%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
11%
Greater than 10 years
11%