Legal July 2025
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
Legal Services, Law Practice, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Europe
42%
Oceania
34%
Northern America
21%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
65%
Male
35%
Non-Binary
0.17%
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.
73% of Legal employees are engaged
This is in the top 40% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 27 and is in the top 4% compared with other industries.
How does Legal compare?
People in Legal were much more positive than average regarding Inclusion.
On the lower side, people in Legal had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Equity, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Legal are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Legal are less engaged than Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Legal had 87% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Legal 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 16% of people disagreeing (-1% below average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 17% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-3% 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
3%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
11%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
24%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
17%