Legal Australia 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
Reported gender breakdown
Female
67%
Male
32%
Non-Binary
0.11%
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.
72% of Legal Australia employees are engaged
This is in the top 48% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 21 and is in the top 22% compared with the overall average.
How does Legal Australia compare?
People in Legal Australia were much more positive than average regarding Alignment & Involvement.
On the lower side, people in Legal Australia had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Service & Quality Focus, and Innovation.
People working in Legal Australia are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Legal Australia are less engaged than Finance United States, Indonesia 1000+, Construction North America, and Construction United States.
The highest scoring question for Legal Australia had 90% of people agreeing that We have enough autonomy to perform our jobs effectively (+7% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.
People in Legal Australia 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 19% of people disagreeing (+3% above average).
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, 10% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+0% 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
10%
1 to less than 2 years
18%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
16%
Greater than 10 years
14%