Food & Beverage United States July 2025
~1.1m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~55
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.1m questions answered from ~55 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
Reported gender breakdown
Male
53%
Female
47%
Non-Binary
0.2%
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.
72% of Food and Beverage United States employees are engaged
This is in the top 43% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 18 and is in the top 32% compared with the overall average.
How does Food and Beverage United States compare?
People in Food & Beverage United States were much more positive than average regarding Service & Quality Focus, Company Performance, and Growth.
People working in Food & Beverage United States are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Food & Beverage United States are less engaged than Philippines (1000-5000), Renewables & Environment United States, South America > 5000, and Professional Services Asia.
The highest scoring question for Food & Beverage United States had 92% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.
People in Food & Beverage United States 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 11% of people disagreeing (-3% 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 United States organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
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, 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
10%
3 months to 6 months
9%
6 months to less than 1 year
11%
1 to less than 2 years
18%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
8%
6 to less than 10 years
10%
Greater than 10 years
14%