Professional Services Ireland July 2025
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Financial Services, Insurance, Investment Management, Staffing & Recruiting, Capital Markets, Information Services, Accounting, Banking, Investment Banking, Law Practice
Reported gender breakdown
Female
50%
Male
50%
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.
63% of Professional Services Ireland employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 41% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 8 and is in the bottom 28% compared with the overall average.
How does Professional Services Ireland compare?
People in Professional Services Ireland were much more positive than average regarding Inclusion and Growth.
On the lower side, people in Professional Services Ireland had much lower favorable scores than average in Feedback & Recognition, Service & Quality Focus, and Company Performance.
People working in Professional Services Ireland are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Professional Services Ireland are less engaged than Marketing & Advertising North America, Hospital & Health Care Oceania, Ireland (1000-5000), and Finance DACH.
The highest scoring question for Professional Services Ireland had 88% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Growth.
People in Professional Services Ireland were generally least favourable about Feedback & Recognition, 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 38% of people disagreeing (+15% 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, 12% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+2% 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
16%
2 to less than 4 years
33%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
15%