Food & Beverage January 2026
~4m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~150
Organizations
These insights represent ~4m 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
Food & Beverages, Food Production, Restaurants, Wine & Spirits
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
39%
Oceania
36%
Europe
20%
Latin America
2%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
60%
Female
40%
Non-Binary
0.22%
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 Food and Beverage employees are engaged
This is in the top 44% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 22 and is in the top 19% compared with other industries.
How does Food and Beverage compare?
People in Food & Beverage were much more positive than average regarding Company Performance and Growth.
On the lower side, people in Food & Beverage had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Learning & Development, and Enablement.
People working in Food & Beverage are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Food & Beverage are less engaged than Investment Management, Legal Services, Venture Capital & Private Equity, and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Food & Beverage had 88% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Diversity.
People in Food & Beverage 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 15% 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 Food and Beverage organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
3 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 20% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+0% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 9% 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
4%
3 months to 6 months
6%
6 months to less than 1 year
10%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
22%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
20%