Pharmaceuticals January 2026
~1.3m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~65
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.3m questions answered from ~65 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
Pharmaceuticals
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Europe
41%
Northern America
38%
Oceania
14%
Asia
4%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
57%
Male
43%
Non-Binary
0.18%
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.
69% of Pharmaceuticals employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 49% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 12 and is in the bottom 24% compared with other industries.
How does Pharmaceuticals compare?
On the lower side, people in Pharmaceuticals had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Feedback & Recognition, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Pharmaceuticals are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Pharmaceuticals are less engaged than Biotechnology, Renewables & Environment, Financial Services, and Legal.
The highest scoring question for Pharmaceuticals had 89% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Pharmaceuticals were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I believe that my total compensation is fair, relative to similar roles at %[Company]%' with 26% 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 Pharmaceuticals organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
2 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 10% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+0% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
10%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
24%
4 to less than 6 years
14%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
17%