Professional Services Middle East & Africa 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, Investment Management, Management Consulting, Information Services, Insurance, Real Estate, Staffing & Recruiting, Architecture & Planning, Human Resources
Reported gender breakdown
Male
58%
Female
42%
Non-Binary
0.05%
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.
74% of Professional Services Middle East and Africa employees are engaged
This is in the top 43% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 23 and is in the top 19% compared with the overall average.
How does Professional Services Middle East and Africa compare?
People in Professional Services Middle East & Africa were much more positive than average regarding Engagement, Company Performance, and Innovation.
On the lower side, people in Professional Services Middle East & Africa had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity and Work & Life Blend.
People working in Professional Services Middle East & Africa are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Professional Services Middle East & Africa are less engaged than India, Investment Management United States, Manufacturing India, and Computer Software South Asia.
The highest scoring question for Professional Services Middle East & Africa had 92% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Inclusion.
People in Professional Services Middle East & Africa 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 28% of people disagreeing (+5% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 17% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 8% 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
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
10%
1 to less than 2 years
23%
2 to less than 4 years
28%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
11%