Legal Australia January 2026
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
70%
Male
30%
Non-Binary
0.19%
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 Australia employees are engaged
This is in the top 46% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 21 and is in the top 24% compared with the overall average.
How does Legal Australia compare?
People in Legal Australia were much more positive than average regarding Action.
On the lower side, people in Legal Australia had much lower favorable scores than average in Innovation, Company Performance, and Social Connection.
People working in Legal Australia are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Legal Australia are less engaged than Banking North America, Vietnam, Information Technology & Services Southeast Asia, and Central America 1000+.
The highest scoring question for Legal Australia had 89% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.
People in Legal Australia 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 22% of people disagreeing (+5% 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, 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
17%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
16%
Greater than 10 years
15%