Public Safety 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
Public Safety
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
51%
Europe
24%
Oceania
14%
MEA
10%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
56%
Female
44%
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.
72% of Public Safety employees are engaged
This is in the top 42% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 19 and is in the top 33% compared with other industries.
How does Public Safety compare?
People in Public Safety were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection.
On the lower side, people in Public Safety had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Public Safety are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Public Safety are less engaged than Banking and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Public Safety 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 Social Connection.
People in Public Safety 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 31% of people disagreeing (+14% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 26% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+6% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
7%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
19%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
30%