Manufacturing Japan January 2026
~70k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~25
Organizations
These insights represent ~70k questions answered from ~25 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
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics, Furniture, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Renewables & Environment, Chemicals, Computer Hardware, Computer Networking, Consumer Goods
Reported gender breakdown
Male
69%
Female
31%
Non-Binary
0.17%
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.
55% of Manufacturing Japan employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 10% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -28 and is the lowest scoring group compared with the overall average.
How does Manufacturing Japan compare?
On the lower side, people in Manufacturing Japan had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Innovation, and Leadership.
People working in Manufacturing Japan are less engaged than Media & Marketing United Kingdom, Construction & Heavy Industry Central Europe, Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, and Creative & Media Western Europe.
The highest scoring question for Manufacturing Japan had 80% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (-7% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Alignment & Involvement.
People in Manufacturing Japan were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'Workloads are divided fairly among people where I work' with 38% of people disagreeing (+22% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 28% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+8% 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
0.36%
3 months to 6 months
1%
6 months to less than 1 year
2%
1 to less than 2 years
8%
2 to less than 4 years
19%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
17%
Greater than 10 years
42%