Manufacturing Southeast Asia 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
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals, Computer Hardware, Computer Networking, Consumer Electronics, Chemicals, Food Production, Building Materials
Reported gender breakdown
Male
57%
Female
43%
Non-Binary
0.07%
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.
73% of Manufacturing Southeast Asia employees are engaged
This is in the top 36% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 14 and is in the bottom 49% compared with the overall average.
How does Manufacturing Southeast Asia compare?
People in Manufacturing Southeast Asia were much more positive than average regarding Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Collaboration & Communication.
On the lower side, people in Manufacturing Southeast Asia had much lower favorable scores than average in Voice and Work & Life Blend.
People working in Manufacturing Southeast Asia are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Manufacturing Southeast Asia are less engaged than Construction & Heavy Industry Southeast Asia, Manufacturing South Asia, Resources & Utilities Asia, and South America (1000-5000).
The highest scoring question for Manufacturing Southeast Asia had 91% 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 Southeast Asia were generally least favourable about Voice, and were most negative towards 'I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies' with 18% of people disagreeing (-5% below average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 13% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-7% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 7% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-3% 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
4%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
23%
4 to less than 6 years
13%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
29%