New Zealand 1000+ January 2026
~1.2m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~100
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.2m questions answered from ~100 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, Retail, Financial Services, Food Production, Information Technology & Services, Utilities, Hospital & Health Care, Insurance, Construction, Higher Education
Reported gender breakdown
Male
52%
Female
47%
Non-Binary
0.37%
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.
65% of New Zealand 1000+ employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 35% compared with other regions.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 4 and is in the bottom 30% compared with other regions.
How does New Zealand 1000+ compare?
People in New Zealand 1000+ were much more positive than average regarding Support Resources and Growth.
On the lower side, people in New Zealand 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Action, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in New Zealand 1000+ are more engaged than Benelux. People working in New Zealand 1000+ are less engaged than Eastern Europe, APAC, North America, and Middle East.
The highest scoring question for New Zealand 1000+ had 87% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Growth.
People in New Zealand 1000+ were generally least favourable about Equity, 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 27% of people disagreeing (+4% 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 Zealand 1000+ organizations.
1 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
2 %[Company]% is in a position to really succeed over the next three years | Company Performance |
3 At %[Company]% we act on promising new or innovative ideas | Innovation |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+3% 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
1%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
24%