Food & Beverage New Zealand January 2026
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Food Production, Food & Beverages, Wine & Spirits
Reported gender breakdown
Male
54%
Female
46%
Non-Binary
0.31%
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 New Zealand employees are engaged
This is in the top 49% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 14 and is in the bottom 46% compared with the overall average.
How does Food and Beverage New Zealand compare?
People in Food & Beverage New Zealand were much more positive than average regarding Company Performance, Alignment & Involvement, and Inclusion.
On the lower side, people in Food & Beverage New Zealand had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Collaboration & Communication.
People working in Food & Beverage New Zealand are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Food & Beverage New Zealand are less engaged than Real Estate, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing APAC, Biotechnology United States, and Legal Oceania.
The highest scoring question for Food & Beverage New Zealand had 88% of people agreeing that We are genuinely supported if they choose to make use of flexible working arrangements (+4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Inclusion.
People in Food & Beverage New Zealand were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 24% of people disagreeing (+7% above average).
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
1%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
18%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
13%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
18%