Manufacturing Europe July 2025
~2m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~150
Organizations
These insights represent ~2m questions answered from ~150 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 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
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, Renewables & Environment, Chemicals, Medical Devices, Building Materials, Food Production, Computer Hardware, Machinery
Reported gender breakdown
Male
65%
Female
34%
Non-Binary
0.04%
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.
66% of Manufacturing Europe employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 41% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 6 and is in the bottom 24% compared with the overall average.
How does Manufacturing Europe compare?
People in Manufacturing Europe were much more positive than average regarding Growth.
On the lower side, people in Manufacturing Europe had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Overall Industries (Global) Wellbeing, and Action.
People working in Manufacturing Europe are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Manufacturing Europe are less engaged than Finance Australia, North America > 5000, Management Consulting Oceania, and Hong Kong 1000+.
The highest scoring question for Manufacturing Europe had 87% 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 Manufacturing Europe were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 19% of people disagreeing (+5% 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 Manufacturing Europe organizations.
1 We acknowledge people who deliver outstanding service here | Service & Quality Focus |
2 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 21% 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
0.66%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
5%
1 to less than 2 years
12%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
14%
6 to less than 10 years
18%
Greater than 10 years
28%