Financial Services Europe January 2026
~1m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~150
Organizations
These insights represent ~1m questions answered from ~150 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 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
Financial Services
Reported gender breakdown
Male
54%
Female
46%
Non-Binary
0.08%
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 Financial Services Europe employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 49% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 6 and is in the bottom 26% compared with the overall average.
How does Financial Services Europe compare?
People in Financial Services Europe were much more positive than average regarding Overall Industries (Global) Wellbeing and Coaching.
On the lower side, people in Financial Services Europe had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Feedback & Recognition, and Company Performance.
People working in Financial Services Europe are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Financial Services Europe are less engaged than Non Profits (1000-5000), Manufacturing Australia, New Tech New Zealand, and APAC > 5000.
The highest scoring question for Financial Services Europe had 91% 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 Financial Services Europe were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 18% of people disagreeing (+4% 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 Financial Services Europe organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
3 Generally, the right people are rewarded and recognized at %[Company]% | Feedback & Recognition |
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, 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
30%
4 to less than 6 years
14%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
11%