Professional Services 1000+ July 2025
~8.5m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~150
Organizations
These insights represent ~8.5m questions answered from ~150 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 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
Financial Services, Insurance, Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Investment Management, Real Estate, Information Services, Accounting, Facilities Services, Commercial Real Estate
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
43%
Oceania
21%
Europe
17%
Asia
12%
MEA
3%
Latin America
3%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
51%
Male
49%
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.
71% of Professional Services 1000+ employees are engaged
This is in the top 43% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 16 and is in the bottom 50% compared with other industries.
How does Professional Services 1000+ compare?
People in Professional Services 1000+ were much more positive than average regarding Decision Making, Overall Industries (Global) Wellbeing, and Diversity.
On the lower side, people in Professional Services 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Enablement, and Contribution To Broader Purpose.
People working in Professional Services 1000+ are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Professional Services 1000+ are less engaged than Legal Services, Banking, and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Professional Services 1000+ had 89% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Professional Services 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 25% of people disagreeing (+3% 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 Professional Services 1000+ organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
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, 18% 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
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
17%