Financial Services Middle East January 2026
~85k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~25
Organizations
These insights represent ~85k questions answered from ~25 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Financial Services
Reported gender breakdown
Male
62%
Female
38%
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.
71% of Financial Services Middle East employees are engaged
This is in the top 43% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 11 and is in the bottom 40% compared with the overall average.
How does Financial Services Middle East compare?
People in Financial Services Middle East were much more positive than average regarding Company Performance, Service & Quality Focus, and Innovation.
On the lower side, people in Financial Services Middle East had much lower favorable scores than average in Work & Life Blend.
People working in Financial Services Middle East are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Financial Services Middle East are less engaged than Eastern Europe (200-500), Resources & Utilities North America, United States (0-100), and Asia 1000+.
The highest scoring question for Financial Services Middle East had 92% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Financial Services Middle East were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies' with 28% of people disagreeing (+5% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 18% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 8% 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
0.74%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
17%
2 to less than 4 years
31%
4 to less than 6 years
13%
6 to less than 10 years
16%
Greater than 10 years
12%