Food & Beverage 1000+ January 2026
~2.5m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~35
Organizations
These insights represent ~2.5m questions answered from ~35 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 Production, Food & Beverages, Restaurants, Wine & Spirits
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
38%
Oceania
33%
Europe
23%
Latin America
3%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
62%
Female
38%
Non-Binary
0.25%
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.
69% of Food and Beverage 1000+ employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 46% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 15 and is in the bottom 40% compared with other industries.
How does Food and Beverage 1000+ compare?
On the lower side, people in Food & Beverage 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Leadership.
People working in Food & Beverage 1000+ are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Food & Beverage 1000+ are less engaged than Hospital & Health Care, Law Practice, Individual & Family Services, and Cosmetics.
The highest scoring question for Food & Beverage 1000+ had 87% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Food & Beverage 1000+ 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 17% 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 Food and Beverage 1000+ organizations.
1 We are encouraged to be innovative even though some of our initiatives may not succeed | Innovation |
2 I believe there are good career opportunities for me at %[Company]% | Learning & Development |
3 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 21% 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
4%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
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
23%