Food & Beverage July 2025
~3m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~150
Organizations
These insights represent ~3m questions answered from ~150 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 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
61%
Oceania
19%
Europe
14%
Latin America
4%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
57%
Female
43%
Non-Binary
0.21%
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 43% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 22 and is in the top 17% compared with other industries.
How does Food and Beverage compare?
People in Food & Beverage were much more positive than average regarding Decision Making, Company Performance, and Transfer Of Expectations & Values.
On the lower side, people in Food & Beverage had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity and Learning & Development.
People working in Food & Beverage are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Food & Beverage are less engaged than Legal Services, Banking, and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Food & Beverage had 90% 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 Work & Life Blend.
People in Food & Beverage 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 12% of people disagreeing (-1% 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 Food and Beverage organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
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, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-1% 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
5%
3 months to 6 months
7%
6 months to less than 1 year
10%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
19%