Machinery July 2026
~0.8m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~50
Organizations
These insights represent ~0.8m questions answered from ~50 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Machinery
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
29%
Europe
28%
Oceania
16%
Asia
13%
Latin America
13%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
79%
Female
21%
Non-Binary
0.01%
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.
70% of Machinery employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 49% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 5 and is in the bottom 7% compared with other industries.
How does Machinery compare?
On the lower side, people in Machinery had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Machinery are more engaged than Local Councils AU & NZ, Local Councils Australia, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Machinery are less engaged than Financial Services, Biotechnology & Medical Devices, Legal, and Tech: Manufacturing & Research.
The highest scoring question for Machinery had 89% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.
People in Machinery were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 20% of people disagreeing (+7% 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 Machinery organizations.
1 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
2 I believe there are good career opportunities for me at %[Company]% | Learning & Development |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+0% 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
1%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
10%
2 to less than 4 years
25%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
31%
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