Healthcare January 2026
~6.5m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~250
Organizations
These insights represent ~6.5m questions answered from ~250 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
Hospital & Health Care, Individual & Family Services, Medical Practice, Mental Health Care
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
62%
Oceania
19%
MEA
14%
Europe
4%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
72%
Male
28%
Non-Binary
0.16%
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.
71% of Healthcare employees are engaged
This is in the top 44% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 17 and is in the top 44% compared with other industries.
How does Healthcare compare?
People in Healthcare were much more positive than average regarding Decision Making, Social Connection, and Overall Industries (Global) Wellbeing.
On the lower side, people in Healthcare had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Equity, and Growth.
People working in Healthcare are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Healthcare are less engaged than Investment Management, Legal Services, Venture Capital & Private Equity, and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Healthcare had 91% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Healthcare 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 15% of people disagreeing (+1% 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 Healthcare organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
3 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-1% 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
10%
1 to less than 2 years
17%
2 to less than 4 years
25%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
16%