Professional Services New Zealand January 2026
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, Staffing & Recruiting, Accounting, Management Consulting, Real Estate, Banking, Commercial Real Estate, Architecture & Planning, Human Resources
Reported gender breakdown
Female
59%
Male
41%
Non-Binary
0.24%
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.
70% of Professional Services New Zealand employees are engaged
This is in the top 47% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 14 and is in the bottom 45% compared with the overall average.
How does Professional Services New Zealand compare?
People in Professional Services New Zealand were much more positive than average regarding Inclusion, Company And Leadership, and Growth.
On the lower side, people in Professional Services New Zealand had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Equity, and Voice.
People working in Professional Services New Zealand are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Professional Services New Zealand are less engaged than New Tech (100-200), Insurance 1000+, East Asia, and Hospital & Health Care North America.
The highest scoring question for Professional Services New Zealand had 90% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Growth.
People in Professional Services New Zealand 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 17% of people disagreeing (-1% below average).
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, 11% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
13%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
20%