Packaging & Containers January 2026
~320k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~20
Organizations
These insights represent ~320k questions answered from ~20 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
Packaging & Containers
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Oceania
64%
Northern America
31%
Asia
4%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
71%
Female
28%
Non-Binary
0.98%
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.
66% of Packaging and Containers employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 34% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 8 and is in the bottom 12% compared with other industries.
How does Packaging and Containers compare?
On the lower side, people in Packaging & Containers had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Leadership.
People working in Packaging & Containers are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications. People working in Packaging & Containers are less engaged than Entertainment & Recreation, Sports: Clubs & Admin, Consulting & Staffing, and Leisure, Travel & Tourism.
The highest scoring question for Packaging & Containers 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 Management.
People in Packaging & Containers 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 (+8% above average).
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, 9% 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
6%
1 to less than 2 years
12%
2 to less than 4 years
17%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
37%