Food Production July 2025
~1.4m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~35
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.4m questions answered from ~35 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 Production
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
56%
Oceania
27%
Europe
8%
Latin America
6%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
65%
Female
35%
Non-Binary
0.1%
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.
70% of Food Production employees are engaged
This is in the top 44% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 14 and is in the bottom 37% compared with other industries.
How does Food Production compare?
On the lower side, people in Food Production had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Leadership, and Collaboration & Communication.
People working in Food Production are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Food Production are less engaged than Biotechnology, Accounting, Computer & Network Security, and Investment Management.
The highest scoring question for Food Production had 87% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Inclusion.
People in Food Production 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 16% of people disagreeing (+2% 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 Production organizations.
1 I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies | Alignment & Involvement |
2 We are encouraged to be innovative even though some of our initiatives may not succeed | Innovation |
3 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
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
3%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
25%