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Manufacturing New Zealand July 2025

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

Food Production, Building Materials, Consumer Goods, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Consumer Electronics, Industrial Automation, Machinery, Pharmaceuticals

Reported gender breakdown

  • Male

    62%

  • Female

    38%

  • Non-Binary

    0.11%

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.

67% of Manufacturing New Zealand employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 38% compared with the overall average.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 5 and is in the bottom 20% compared with the overall average.

How does Manufacturing New Zealand compare?

On the lower side, people in Manufacturing New Zealand had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Leadership.

People working in Manufacturing New Zealand are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Manufacturing New Zealand are less engaged than Financial Services Australia, Technology, Science, Research North America, Information Technology & Services 1000+, and East Asia (1000-5000).

The highest scoring question for Manufacturing New Zealand had 87% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.


People in Manufacturing New Zealand 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 25% of people disagreeing (+9% above average).

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, 11% 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

    3%

  • 3 months to 6 months

    4%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    5%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    14%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    20%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    12%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    12%

  • Greater than 10 years

    29%

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