Professional Sports Teams July 2026
~225k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~30
Organizations
These insights represent ~225k questions answered from ~30 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.
To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Sports
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Europe
31%
Northern America
31%
APAC
19%
Oceania
19%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
62%
Female
38%
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.
73% of Professional Sports Teams employees are engaged
This is in the top 40% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 32 and is the highest scoring group compared with other industries.
How does Professional Sports Teams compare?
On the lower side, people in Professional Sports Teams had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Collaboration & Communication.
People working in Professional Sports Teams are as engaged as other industries.
The highest scoring question for Professional Sports Teams had 93% of people agreeing that they are proud to work for %[Company]% (+9% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Professional Sports Teams were generally least favourable about Action, 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 39% of people disagreeing (+16% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 21% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+2% 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
3%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
19%
2 to less than 4 years
25%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
15%