New Tech DACH January 2026
~580k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~200
Organizations
These insights represent ~580k questions answered from ~200 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 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
Computer Software, Information Technology & Services, Internet, Computer & Network Security, Computer Games
Reported gender breakdown
Male
67%
Female
33%
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.
62% of New Tech DACH employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 43% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -3 and is in the bottom 8% compared with the overall average.
How does New Tech DACH compare?
People in New Tech DACH were much more positive than average regarding Voice, Growth, and Coaching.
On the lower side, people in New Tech DACH had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Action, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in New Tech DACH are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in New Tech DACH are less engaged than Finance Spain, Ireland (1000-5000), Technology, Science, Research Australia, and Malaysia (1000-5000).
The highest scoring question for New Tech DACH had 87% of people agreeing that We are genuinely supported if they choose to make use of flexible working arrangements (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.
People in New Tech DACH 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 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 New Tech DACH organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
3 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 22% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 13% 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
7%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
15%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
18%