Legal North America January 2026
~95k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~20
Organizations
These insights represent ~95k questions answered from ~20 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Legal Services, Law Practice
Reported gender breakdown
Female
63%
Male
37%
Non-Binary
0.43%
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.
78% of Legal North America employees are engaged
This is in the top 34% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 29 and is in the top 10% compared with the overall average.
How does Legal North America compare?
People in Legal North America were much more positive than average regarding Feedback & Recognition, Collaboration & Communication, and Innovation.
On the lower side, people in Legal North America had much lower favorable scores than average in Action.
People working in Legal North America are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Legal North America are less engaged than China (1000-5000), China 1000+, China, and China > 5000.
The highest scoring question for Legal North America had 92% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Legal North America 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 13% of people disagreeing (-4% below average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 14% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-6% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 6% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-4% 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
6%
6 months to less than 1 year
14%
1 to less than 2 years
20%
2 to less than 4 years
22%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
12%