Legal January 2026
~485k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~60
Organizations
These insights represent ~485k questions answered from ~60 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
Legal Services, Law Practice
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Europe
46%
Northern America
24%
Oceania
18%
MEA
9%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
65%
Male
35%
Non-Binary
0.12%
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.
74% 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 5% compared with other industries.
How does Legal compare?
People in Legal were much more positive than average regarding Company Performance, Voice, and Inclusion.
On the lower side, people in Legal had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity.
People working in Legal are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Legal are less engaged than Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Legal had 88% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Diversity.
People in Legal were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 18% 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 Legal organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
2 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
3 The products and services %[Company]% provides are as good as, or better than, our main competitors | Company Performance |
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
4%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
10%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
24%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
16%