Government July 2025
~1.2m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~80
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.2m questions answered from ~80 organizations, collected between January 2024 and December 2024.
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
Government Administration, International Trade & Development, Security & Investigations, Government Relations, International Affairs
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Oceania
69%
Northern America
15%
Europe
12%
Asia
3%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
53%
Male
47%
Non-Binary
0.32%
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.
65% of Government employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 31% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 8 and is in the bottom 10% compared with other industries.
How does Government compare?
People in Government were much more positive than average regarding Growth.
On the lower side, people in Government had much lower favorable scores than average in Feedback & Recognition, Equity, and Action.
People working in Government are less engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management, Telecommunications, E Learning, and Enterprise.
The highest scoring question for Government 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 Government were generally least favourable about Feedback & Recognition, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 31% of people disagreeing (+14% 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 Government organizations.
1 %[Company]% really allows us to make a positive difference | Social Connection |
2 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
3 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 11% 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
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
20%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
26%